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When toys learn to talk, AiSpea turns all things into AI-powered companions
As children, many of us imagined our toys coming to life—speaking, thinking, and developing personalities…
From Biscuits to Bytes: Inside the Lisbon Factory Breeding Global Unicorns
When our team pulled into Lisbon’s Beato Innovation District, we didn’t find the sterile glass…

AI gets social in China – Tencent tests Yuanbao Groups for AI-powered social interaction
On Monday, Tencent’s AI assistant Yuanbao rolled out a new social feature, Yuanbao Groups (元宝派), in…
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For years, Chinese hardware companies were best known in global markets for contract manufacturing and…
Exploring physical AI: Linkerbot works on giving robots human-like hands to act in the real world
If large language models are the brains of machines, then dexterous robotic hands are becoming…
