Not even Google's cleaning robots are safe from the tech industry's layoffs and cost-cutting efforts

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A Google office in San Francisco, California.

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iRobot's budget-friendly Roomba 694 is back on sale for $179

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Robot vacuums are one of the few sci-fi predictions that more or less delivered — there actually are autonomous machines that can help keep your home clean.

The new Bing is acting all weird and creepy — but the human response is way scarier

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Everyone is freaking out because Microsoft's ChatGPT clone flirted with a journalist and said it wanted to be alive. But the hysteria is missing the real menace: humans.

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Mark Cuban lays into the AI hype, saying tools like ChatGPT will only worsen online misinformation

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Mark Cuban.

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Artificial intelligence's dirty secret

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Behind the AI chatbots and delivery robots are human workers, hidden from sight, keeping everything running.

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Meet the hidden human workforce behind the boom in artificial intelligence

Echolocation could give small robots the ability to find lost people

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Scientists and roboticists have long looked at nature for inspiration to develop new features for machines.

ChatGPT's soaring popularity has added $5 billion to the wealth of Nvidia's founder as Wall Street bets on AI boom for the chipmaker

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Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang.

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Marines fooled a DARPA robot by hiding in a cardboard box while giggling and pretending to be trees

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United States Marines and representatives from Boston Dynamics look at Spot, a four-legged robot designed for indoor and outdoor operation, during the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency Robotics Challenge at the Fairplex June 5, 2015 in Pomona, California.

7-Eleven is quietly testing self-driving robots to deliver Slurpees and Big Bite Hot Dogs in Los Angeles. Here's how it works.

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7-Eleven is testing robot deliveries in Los Angeles.

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