🤖 Meet the All-New Electric Atlas Robot, TikTok Notes vs. Instagram, Reddit Boosts AI Post-IPO
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An Electric New Era for Atlas. This week we announced the retirement of our hydraulic Atlas and unveiled what comes next—a fully electric Atlas robot designed for real-world applications. The next generation of the Atlas program builds on decades of research and furthers our commitment to delivering the most capable, useful mobile robots solving the toughest challenges in industry today: with Spot, with Stretch, and now with Atlas. Boston Dynamics
𝕏: Has anyone written about how Hollywood renderings of the future end up creating a path dependence for actual technological development? - Chris Hayes (@chrislhayes)
TikTok Notes starts rolling out as a new rival to Instagram. TikTok has started rolling out its Instagram rival, TikTok Notes, to select Android and iOS users “for download and limited testing in Australia and Canada.” A tweet announcing the launch, as well as the App Store and Google Play listings, showed off some official images of the app that offer insights about how it works for those of us who don’t have access yet. By Sheena Vasani via The Verge
𝕏: Trying TikTok Notes and it feels like I'm scrolling through the results of a Google Image search without knowing what the search was. Basically just a wall of endless photos that mean nothing to me? It does not feel like every picture tells a story. - Kevin Parry (kevinbparry)
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Reddit CPO talks new features: better translations, moderation and dev tools. It's a big year for Reddit. After its IPO, the platform is planning a slew of product features for the year ahead, and — spoiler alert — most of them are powered by AI. “I think the IPO was an important milestone, but we're just focused on building for our users,” Reddit chief product officer Pali Bhat told TechCrunch. By Amanda Silberling via TechCrunch
U.S. Senate Democrats urge Buttigieg to develop autonomous vehicle rules. "We lag behind in shaping a regulatory framework that will foster this innovation while simultaneously protecting and encouraging all of the important benefits we believe autonomous vehicles are capable of delivering," wrote the senators, led by Gary Peters, who chairs a Senate Commerce subcommittee on surface transportation. "Autonomous vehicles hold great promise to deliver significant benefits for all Americans - but only if the federal government puts the necessary policies in place to achieve these benefits." By David Shepardson via Reuters
The role of clean energy in the future of American manufacturing. Electric vehicles and other clean-energy technologies have contributed to the recent growth in American manufacturing and offered new opportunities for modernization. By Washington Post Live via Washington Post
AI news
NeuBird is building a generative AI solution for complex cloud-native environments
Stability AI is giving more developers access to its next-gen text-to-image generator
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