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Marc Kavinsky, Lead Editor at IoT Business NewsAT&T and Wiliot are growing their partnership focused on Wiliot’s Physical AI platform. Under this arrangement, AT&T has begun handling systems integration, on-site deployment, device certification, and ongoing support for enterprise supply chain setups.For enterprises looking to bring their supply chains into the digital age, the main challenge isn’t usually the need to gather additional data. It’s about building a consistent, repeatable approach for rolling out sensing infrastructure—across warehouses, trucks, stores, and distribution centers—without each rollout turning into a complicated engineering project.That’s the core reason why the deepened AT&T Business and Wiliot partnership…

At the Robotics Summit’s opening keynote, QNX President John Wall, second from right, sat alongside (from left) Locus Robotics’ Hamid Montazeri, Universal Robots’ Anders Beck, Amazon Robotics’ Aaron Parness, and moderator Eugene Demaitre. Source: QNX BOSTON — At the Robotics Summit & Expo this week, QNX unveiled its latest research report, “Inside the Robot: Architecture Benchmark Report,” exploring how the field of robotics is shifting as robots become more AI-driven, software-centric, and designed to operate alongside people. “Robotics teams are clearly striving to build smarter, more autonomous systems, but the data reveals they’re also hitting the hard limits of architectures…

A person using the fake name “Noah Doe,” together with two Wyoming LLCs, has filed a lawsuit in New York Supreme Court asking the court to officially recognize them as the rightful owners of 39,069 inactive Bitcoin addresses containing approximately 3.8 million BTC — valued at roughly $293 billion at today’s prices. The lawsuit, initially filed on March 11, 2026, and updated on May 1, 2026 (Index No. 153119/2026), is thought to be the first time anyone in the United States has tried to claim ownership of Bitcoin using a lost-and-found property law. The legal framework being used is New…

You’ve likely encountered this frustrating situation: a website refuses to load, a login page stalls, or an online service becomes completely inaccessible at the worst possible time. Often, the culprit isn’t an internal failure but a Distributed Denial-of-Service (DDoS) attack, an external assault designed to overwhelm the target. DDoS attacks have remained one of the most straightforward methods to cripple an online service. By flooding a target with massive amounts of traffic, attackers exhaust its resources and render it unusable, all without needing to break into the system itself. Today, these attacks are increasingly packaged and marketed like any legitimate…

A new self-driving car is hitting the streets of Los Angeles, San Francisco, and Phoenix—or at least, it will be soon. In the coming weeks, Waymo, Alphabet’s autonomous vehicle subsidiary, will begin offering free public rides in its latest vehicle, the Ojai (pronounced “oh-hai”). These pale blue, sensor-covered minivans still come equipped with steering wheels, even though they’re built to operate without human drivers. For the time being, all rides called through the Waymo app will be complimentary.The road to this launch has been lengthy. Waymo originally unveiled the vehicle in 2021 and has been testing it on public roads…

Once a human stops fine-tuning them, most AI agents stop getting better. The underlying model stays the same, and so does the infrastructure built around it. Hexo Labs aims to evolve both simultaneously. This week, the company open-sourced SIA (Self-Improving AI) under the MIT license. The central — and deliberately narrow — claim behind SIA is this: within a single self-improvement loop, it can modify both the agent’s surrounding infrastructure and the model’s internal weights. What is SIA (Self-Improving AI) SIA divides a task-specific agent into two layers. The first layer is the harness (sometimes called the scaffold), which includes…

Hurricane Laura struck Louisiana in late August as the first major hurricane of the 2020 Atlantic hurricane season. Classified as a Category 4 Atlantic hurricane, it brought sustained winds reaching up to 150 MPH along with a devastating storm surge. Ranked as the 10th-strongest U.S. hurricane ever recorded, Laura claimed the lives of at least 41 people in the United States. The storm caused an estimated $23.3 billion in damages across southwestern Louisiana and southeastern Texas near the Gulf of Mexico. I made the drive from Indiana to Louisiana in my motorhome to see how I could assist our customers,…

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GPU communication often acts as a significant speed constraint in real-world AI workloads. Citing data from the mKernel initiative, researchers note that communication can occupy 43.6% of the forward pass and 32% of total training duration. For common Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) architectures, transmitting data between devices may take as much as 47% of total runtime. A team from UC Berkeley’s UCCL project has introduced mKernel, a library of persistent CUDA kernels designed to merge NVLink traffic within a node, RDMA transfers across nodes, and processing tasks into one unified operation. The Challenge: CPU-Managed Communication Traditionally, handling data exchange between GPUs follows…

In brief Anthropic launched Claude Opus 4.8 on Thursday, only six weeks after releasing Opus 4.7. The new version delivers improved performance in software engineering, reasoning, and computer usage benchmarks, while maintaining the same pricing at $5/$25 per million input/output tokens. Opus 4.8’s safety alignment scores now match those of Claude Mythos Preview, Anthropic’s experimental flagship model, with significantly reduced rates of deceptive or potentially harmful behavior compared to the previous version. Six weeks—that’s the short span between Anthropic’s launch of Opus 4.7 and the arrival of Opus 4.8.The latest model performs faster and scores higher on benchmark evaluations, and…