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The Grande 44 is Burro’s strongest autonomous robot yet, and the first one specifically designed for heavy industry. Source: Burro Physical AI is making field robots more capable than ever. Burro has just introduced the Grande 44, a powerful new robot with 44 horsepower, a towing capacity of 6,000 pounds (2,721.5 kg), and the ability to work both indoors and outdoors. The company says this platform delivers proven autonomy to industrial tasks that standard warehouse robots simply can’t handle. “Robots have mostly been limited to warehouses and factories,” said Charlie Andersen, co-founder and CEO of Burro. “Very few companies have…

Kerry Wan/ZDNETFollow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. ZDNET’s key takeaways WSL 3 makes Linux on Windows more powerful. Linux gets more direct access to GPUs and NPUs. A pure Linux desktop is still best for AI devs. Microsoft has taken another significant step toward bringing a full Linux desktop experience to Windows with the beta launch of the open-source Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) 3.Unveiled at Microsoft Build 2026 in San Francisco, WSL 3 represents the next chapter in Microsoft’s ongoing effort to integrate Linux into Windows. The company positioned the system as a preview feature…

For decades, k-means has been treated as a one-shot, offline preprocessing step — run it once, store the results, and move forward. A collaborative team from UC Berkeley and UT Austin has introduced Flash-KMeans, an open-source library designed for a fundamentally different use case. In today’s AI workflows, k-means gets invoked repeatedly inside both training and inference loops. When that happens, the latency of each individual call becomes far more critical than raw floating-point throughput. Flash-KMeans is an IO-aware re-implementation of classic Lloyd’s k-means. The underlying mathematics remain untouched, and no approximations are introduced. The gains come entirely from restructuring…

Gate has unveiled the addition of RLUSD (Ripple USD), Ripple’s U.S. Dollar-pegged stablecoin, along with the introduction of BTC/RLUSD, ETH/RLUSD, XRP/RLUSD, and RLUSD/USDT trading pairs on June 15 at 09:00 (UTC). With the asset now accessible, participants can exchange RLUSD directly against prominent digital currencies in the spot market, thereby broadening the practical applications of stablecoins across various trading contexts. RLUSD represents a regulated, enterprise-level stablecoin developed with an emphasis on trust, liquidity, and adherence to regulatory standards. Brought to market by Standard Custody & Trust Company, LLC — a fully owned subsidiary of Ripple Labs — RLUSD maintains a…

The Democrats’ latest amicus brief comes on the heels of an earlier request in the same court proceeding for a full-panel appeals court review. Michele Sandiford June 12, 2026 11:27 am < a min read Senate Democrats are pressing a higher court to overturn a ruling that upheld the terminations of two immigration judges at the Justice Department. Lawmakers caution that the Merit Systems Protection Board’s earlier decision could significantly expand the president’s authority to dismiss wide swaths of civil servants. The Democrats’ latest amicus brief follows an earlier call within the same case for a full-panel appeals court hearing.…

Guang Cao/Moment via GettyStay updated with ZDNET: Mark us as a preferred source on Google.ZDNET’s main pointsVisa will safeguard AI-driven payments within OpenAI platforms.The security framework for AI-powered transactions is still evolving.Both individuals and companies could face potential threats.AI-powered shopping represents a fast-expanding area of artificial intelligence for both consumers and businesses, a trend highlighted by Google’s recent introduction of Universal Cart at its I/O event in May. This week, Visa and OpenAI strengthened that foundation further — but can AI agents be trusted to handle purchases responsibly?On Wednesday, the two organizations revealed a collaboration to enable Visa-secured AI agent…

Anthropic export controls turned an abstract policy fear into a live one last week: as of June 13, 2026, one US government directive took the company’s two most powerful AI models offline for users everywhere, including, briefly, Anthropic’s own foreign-born employees, and set off alarm bells across Europe and Canada about who really controls the AI the world runs on.The mechanics were startling in their speed. The reaction abroad has been louder still.The US government, citing national security authorities, has issued an export control directive to suspend all access to Fable 5 and Mythos 5 by any foreign national, whether…

Why bother tackling a tricky probability puzzle in my spare time when I could have been mindlessly scrolling through social media? The reason is simple: I want to keep my mind sharp during this era when we can easily offload most of our critical thinking to AI. If you’re reading articles on TDS, chances are we share that same goal. In this article, we’ll work through an entertaining probability challenge recently shared by one of my favorite YouTubers, 3Blue1Brown. If you haven’t come across his channel yet, I highly recommend checking it out. He specializes in visual, intuitive explanations that…

In brief Reve 2.0 debuted at #2 on the Arena text-to-image leaderboard, behind OpenAI’s GPT Image 2 and ahead of Google’s Nano Banana 2. Instead of turning a prompt into prose, Reve builds a structured “layout” first, then renders natively at 4K. In our hands-on tests, it led on control, price, and permissiveness while quietly dropping prompt details its rivals would have caught. Reve dropped version 2.0 of its AI image model on June 3, and it walked straight onto the Arena text-to-image leaderboard at #2, slightly behind OpenAI’s GPT Image 2 and ahead of Google’s Nano Banana 2. The…

A proposed change in the House Armed Services Committee’s draft of the 2027 defense policy bill could deter tech firms from constructing data centers on military bases. An Army official warned this would undermine Army modernization plans and discourage future private investment. Introduced by Representative Cory Mills (R-Fla.), the measure would prohibit the Department of Defense from leasing its land for private data centers unless companies pledge not to install or run equipment containing parts made in China, Russia, Iran, or North Korea. This ban targets specific items like advanced semiconductors, chipsets, and certain printed circuit boards that the Pentagon…