Monopoly

"Great news for monopolists: If you successfully swat away regulators for long enough, a new approach might come along and disrupt your monopoly status after nearly a decade of unfettered domination of your domain, thus rendering you not a monopoly despite enjoying all the benefits of one."https://gizmodo.com/meta-learns-that-nothing-is-a-monopoly-if-you-just-wait-long-enough-2000687691?utm_source=gizmodo_newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=2025-11-18-pm

Set it and Forget it

"Typical action cameras are the simple “set it and forget it” type of device used by anybody who wants a simple way to film their antics without having to fiddle with camera settings."https://gizmodo.com/dji-osmo-action-6-variable-aperture-lens-beats-gopro-hero-13-black-2000687756?utm_source=gizmodo_newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=2025-11-18-pm

AI Robots

"Robots powered by popular artificial intelligence models are currently unsafe for general purpose real-world use, according to new research from King’s College London, University of Birmingham and Carnegie Mellon University."

https://www.ri.cmu.edu/popular-ai-models-arent-ready-to-safely-power-robots/?utm_source=join1440&utm_medium=email&utm_placement=newsletter&user_id=66c4c92f5d78644b3ac5d5b4

Robots

"Automation is getting a little out of control these days."https://futurism.com/robots-and-machines/robot-xpeng-terminator

IRON

"At the 2025 AI Day in Guangzhou, Chinese firm Xpeng revealed the second-generation IRON humanoid robot."https://interestingengineering.com/innovation/humanoid-robot-powered-by-solid-state-battery?utm_source=join1440&utm_medium=email&user_id=66c4c92f5d78644b3ac5d5b4

Facebook

"For the past decade, Dr. Priscilla Chan and her husband Mark Zuckerberg have focused part of their philanthropy on a lofty goal — “to cure, prevent or manage all disease” — if not in their lifetime, then in their children’s."https://www.philanthropy.com/news/zuckerberg-chan-shift-bulk-of-philanthropy-to-science/?utm_source=join1440&utm_medium=email&utm_placement=newsletter&user_id=66c4c92f5d78644b3ac5d5b4

Microsoft

"Microsoft is forming a new team that wants to build artificial intelligence that is vastly more capable than humans in certain domains, starting with medical diagnostics, the executive leading the effort told Reuters."https://tech.yahoo.com/ai/copilot/articles/microsoft-launches-superintelligence-team-targeting-140612751.html?utm_source=join1440&utm_medium=email&utm_placement=newsletter&user_id=66c4c92f5d78644b3ac5d5b4