Nabu Casa — the commercial side of the Open Home Foundation, which runs Home Assistant — just launched the Home Assistant Connect Aux-2, a multi-function box designed to help you bring more devices into your smart home. It’s part of Home Assistant’s ongoing efforts to become more user-friendly. And it’s working. I’ve been testing the
Jim Fan, a researcher at Nvidia who has collaborated with Goldberg, says the way AI can now control robots mirrors how software agents function. LLMS can use models trained to control physical actions—visual language action (VLA) models—just as they access different software on a computer. This week, Fan, Goldberg, and others open sourced an agentic
The AI industry is still reeling from Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang’s honeypot scandal, but some in the industry see it as an issue that’s much larger than one man. The Chinese government has been active in economic espionage for decades, and with semiconductors at the center of the AI boom, there’s intense pressure to infiltrate
On screen, a woman runs toward a cliff and peers anxiously over the edge, teetering as she looks down at a perilous mountain dotted with boulders, her hair flying in the wind. She’s not, though. I can see her from where I’m standing in the middle of a Disney sound stage in Los Angeles. She’s
The countdown to Black Friday is on, and the first discounts are starting to appear. Although the shopping holiday isn’t officially until November 27th, retailers are already dropping early deals on some of our favorite tech. Of course, with prices rising across the board, a good discount doesn’t necessarily mean you’re getting a historically low
The European Commission announced a sweeping set of updates to consumer law on Wednesday to protect European Union citizens from “harmful digital practices”—whether while online shopping, browsing social media, or doing their Duolingo lesson. Within the package, the Commission unveiled its Digital Fairness Act to address harmful practices online. Proposed rules include banning dark patterns—practices
