Following a market slide tied to voter backlash against local data center projects in the midterm elections, executives from Arm, OpenAI and Qualcomm pushed back on fears of a lasting hit to AI infrastructure spending. Arm's Rene Haas called the sell-off reaction short-term thinking, OpenAI's Sarah Friar pledged continued investment and community engagement including a promise not to raise electricity bills, and Qualcomm's Cristiano Amon said data centers are only a small part of his company's business.
cnbc.com
· 2026-11-06
Researchers described a system in which AI agents take a scientist's description of a research goal and lab setup, then write detailed step-by-step protocols for lab robots. The agents build a virtual replica of the lab to test and refine these protocols before directing real robotic arms to carry them out, and can even help design an entire lab layout from scratch. In one test, the agents generated over 200 commands for a robotic arm to measure optical properties of nanocrystals, detailed in an October preprint that has not been peer reviewed.
nature.com
· 2026-11-06
The Information reports Apple is working on a higher-end smart home display, codenamed J595 and possibly branded HomeView Ultra, with a 9-inch screen mounted on a robotic arm that swivels to track users during video calls. The device is said to be planned for a 2027 announcement with shipments beginning in 2028, priced around $1,000. This follows Apple's first HomeView smart display, a $299 7-inch panel launching next week.
zdnet.com
· 2026-11-03
A new open-source robotics project called Stringman introduces a room-scale gripper robot that uses clip-on fiducial tags to identify drop-off points like laundry bins, toy boxes, and trash cans. Users tag destinations rather than individual clutter items, and can mark objects as off-limits or use tags as source and destination markers for tasks like item-ferrying between robot arms or laundry stations.
neufangled.com
· 2026-11-03
The Information's Aaron Tilley reports that Apple is developing a larger, AI-powered home robotics device internally referred to as 'HomeView Ultra,' featuring a nine-inch screen on a swiveling robotic arm. The hardware has reportedly been complete for about two years, but software delays tied to expanded AI ambitions have pushed back its release, with pricing expected around $1,000.
9to5mac.com
· 2026-11-02
A new open-source project called nxnative converts owned Nintendo Switch games into native apps for iPhones, iPads, and Macs without emulation, since Switch and recent Apple devices share Arm-based processors. The tool replaces Nintendo-specific components like the OS and graphics API with a host program and Apple's Metal, and its GitHub page already lists more than 60 tested games including Mario Kart 8 Deluxe and Tears of the Kingdom. Users must supply their own game files and console-extracted decryption keys, build the app via Xcode, and sideload it using tools like AltStore, with support limited to an iPhone 15 Pro or newer, or an M1 iPad or later running iOS/iPadOS 26.
techspot.com
· 2026-10-26
A new robotics system called Dream-1 is designed to generalize zero-shot to tasks, environments, and robot hardware it has never encountered before, removing the need for each robot to collect its own training data first. Its developers point to falling hardware costs, including bimanual robot arm setups priced as low as $2,000, as a second factor making wider robot deployment feasible. Together, they argue, these shifts could let robotics escape the chicken-and-egg problem that has long slowed the field compared with self-driving cars.
dreamlabs.ai
· 2026-10-24
A Steam Frame user posted in Valve's forums asking for external optical drive support so they could watch movies and install older disc-based games. A Valve developer, gaberowe, responded the next day and pushed a kernel commit enabling the feature in under 10 minutes, adding it to the SteamOS ARM Linux kernel repository used for the device.
tomshardware.com
· 2026-10-24
The Verge reviewed Lenovo's Yoga 9n, a 16-inch convertible laptop built on Nvidia's Arm-based RTX Spark processor, which pairs an OLED touchscreen with a magnetic stylus that can also be used on its haptic trackpad. The reviewer highlighted this trackpad-stylus functionality as useful for tasks like photo retouching in Lightroom Classic and Photoshop.
theverge.com
· 2026-10-24
Microsoft is said to be working on a new, more compact 12-inch Surface Laptop that would use an ARM-based processor rather than Intel or AMD silicon. The report suggests this smaller model could be priced more affordably than existing Surface Laptop configurations, though Microsoft has not officially confirmed the device.
gizmodo.com
· 2026-10-20
Arm announced results showing its AGI CPU delivers nearly double the performance per rack compared to AMD's EPYC 9755, based on modeled rack calculations across seven agentic AI workloads. The figures came from a new CPU evaluation methodology Arm developed with input from Fujitsu, Meta, and OpenAI, and were independently verified by Signal65.
tomshardware.com
· 2026-10-19
Bloomberg's Mark Gurman reports Apple is developing a higher-end version of its newly launched $299 HomeView smart display, code-named J595, for release in 2027 or 2028. The device would feature a roughly 9-inch screen, up from 7 inches, and a motorized arm allowing it to swivel 360 degrees using voice recognition to face whoever is speaking.
9to5mac.com
· 2026-10-18
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