Nexterity wants to automate the hard, dangerous part of pipefitting

The startup's robot can tighten or loosen four bolts at a time, and it fits in a Pelican case.

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Meet Feather, the startup building the ‘Android of robotics’ for developers

Feather is betting on a customizable, $30,000 platform built for software developers.

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Melania Trump Gave A Rather Awkward, Lukewarm Assessment Of Her Husband's Second Term

Amid his ongoing war of choice with Iran that's now raging well into its seventh month after swearing it would be over in a matter of weeks back in February, President Donald Trump's approval ratings are sinking to career lows, as all of America begins to realize that he really is every bit as awful as we've been telling them for years.

In what I can only assume is a desperate attempt to patch even a few small holes in that sinking ship, Fox News invited the rarely seen First Lady Melania Trump onto the Fox & Friends segment this morning, where she gave her husband a little impromptu job performance assessment.

"How's the president doing in Trump 2 as compared to Trump 1?" Fox host Brian Kilmeade asked Donald Trump's third and current wife. "How do you see him handling the job differently?"

It took a few awkward seconds for Melania to open her mouth and respond, but what came out wasn't exactly the most gushingly flattering thing we've ever heard.

Melania described her husband as "very focused," despite having "a lot on his plate."

"It's very different, what's going on around the world now, but I think he's doing the best that he can," the First Lady went on to say about her husband's second presidential term that has been plagued by scandal and screw-ups. "He works nonstop, he has the most energy than anybody, he's, from morning to evening, nonstop working."

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VC firm Bessemer now has another $5.75B to invest in (what else?) AI

The VC firm says that AI-native companies are growing faster than any technology, ever.

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Modal Motors is trying to cut China out of electric motors entirely

The startup is working on small, light motors with no rare-earth magnets that are suited for drones, fans, and robots.

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Tammy Bruce Furious Fox Biz Host Highlighted Trump's Low Approval Ratings

Trump spokesperson and former Fox News contributor Tammy Bruce became quite disturbed when Fox Business host Stuart Varney interrupted her fictitious picture of the US economy under Trump's leadership and asked her to explain Trump's horrific poll numbers.

BRUCE: People who watch your show know that the economy is doing well, that savings is growing.

Great interview with Steve just a little bit ago.

The nature of the stock market, the choices of the modern world that we have to face like AI, the nature of what we did with the Internet, and the fact that that created giant American businesses which have made the world better.

VARNEY: So why is he so low in the polls? Why is his approval rating in the low 30s?

How dare Varney break the MAGA hypnotic enchantment on his audience Bruce was spinning.

Instead of responding to his question, she spun a tale of when Trump first ran and said, "When did we start believing?"

BRUCE: The nature of what media does to try to shift the American public's view of this man.
It has not worked because we see what he delivers. What he's concerned about is not the polls.

He wants to make sure the American people are informed, they know what he's doing, and of course we trust him to be doing the right thing.

It's why he's president, and we know that he makes choices based on what he understands is best for this country.

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Qualcomm launches two new smartphone chips with emphasis on AI

Qualcomm said that its new top chip can run 30B mixture-of-expert model locally.

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