🤖 Featured: Robots That Learn in 2 Hours
Jim Fan from NVIDIA presented a breakthrough learning model where robots can learn in 2 hours what used to take 10 years. The 3-phase method includes:
- Human teleoperation
- Digital twin simulations
- VR-based “digital cousin” training
📌 The real Turing test? Coming home and not knowing if your partner or your robot cleaned the house! 😄
🛍️ Agentic Commerce Is Coming
Visa and PayPal are embracing agentic commerce, where AI agents shop on your behalf.
📦 Visa presented intelligent commerce solutions
🧠 Perplexity chose PayPal to power AI-powered autonomous agents
⚠️ But beware: according to Ars Technica, crypto-trading AI agents aren’t ready for prime time yet.
🌐 Tech & AI Worldwide
📜 UAE to become the first country to use AI for drafting laws → Read more
🏛️ UK’s House of Lords pushes back on new AI/data bill → The Guardian
📸 Discord tests facial recognition for age verification → Gizmodo
📺 AI and Advertising
🎬 Netflix to integrate generative AI ads mid-stream by 2026 → Ars Technica
📹 YouTube to deploy AI for perfectly timed ads → DDay
🧠 Tech Curiosities
☕ Woman divorces her husband after ChatGPT interprets coffee grounds and convinces her of infidelity → TechSpot
👓 New Ray-Ban + Meta smart glasses can now “see” and interpret what you look at → DDay
🎮 Nintendo threatens to brick hacked Switch consoles → Ars Technica
🔐 Privacy, AGCOM & Digital Rights
📶 AGCOM proposes strict age-verification rules for adult sites → Corriere
📞 New anti-spoofing spam call filter on the way → Wired
📧 EU’s “Chat Control” returns via ProtectEU strategy → DDay
🧩 Tech takeaway
AI is taking over commerce, legislation, entertainment and more. But between the hype and the risks, one question remains: are we truly ready?
✉️ Stay tuned for next week’s Tech Weekly!
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