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Samsung's 24-Hour Robot Won't Rewrite Manufacturing Costs. Here's What Will.
Will 24-Hour Robots Rewrite the Cost Logic of Manufacturing? The intuitive objection is correct. If the task is strictly "move 10,000 boxes from Point A to Point B," a bipedal humanoid robot is not the best tool. Wheeled AMRs, automated forklifts and conveyors are faster, more energy-efficient, higher-payload and easier to control. A wheeled platform does not spend compute and control precision on standing upright or taking a step. When it fails, it usually stops where it is. A bipedal robot that loses balance can fall into material, equipment or people.
By Jinabout 4 hours ago in 01
REA Took Apart a Game and a Learning App. One Ran. One Stopped Cold.
In October 2026, the open-source project REA moved quickly through technical communities. Its full name is Reverse Engineer Anything. The loudest line around it was “reverse engineer everything, software is dead.” AI commentator Matthew Berman posted that line, and social platforms soon filled with reverse-engineering demos.
By Jinabout 5 hours ago in 01
Huawei and DeepSeek Made Ascend Cheap Enough to Use. Training Is Still Nvidia’s Game.
A small change that explains the partnership SemiAnalysis’s The Huawei-DeepSeek Symbiosis includes a detail that is easy to skip. DeepSeek changed FlashMLA on Ascend so that quantized values and scales in the KV cache sit together. Fetching one token used to require two transfer requests. After the change, it requires one. The modification is too small for a strategy slide. It is an engineer counting memory transfers and deciding to send fewer.
By Jina day ago in 01
The Apple Store App Shows Why Foldables Still Feel Half-Finished
Open the Apple Store app on a foldable inner screen. The product card sits in a narrow column. White space fills the right side. The Buy button waits at the bottom of a layout built for a slab phone. To reach it, the thumb has to travel across the fold.
By Jina day ago in 01
I Used a Foldable Phone for a Month. The Crease Was Not the Problem.
Before I bought the Find N6, I never used screen protectors. My previous phone lasted two years, and its screen was covered in fingerprints and fine scratches, but I never bothered. A foldable was different. On the first day I got it, I went downstairs to have an inner-screen protector applied. The technician said while working that this film was hard to apply. There was a crease in the middle, and he had to push it out slowly with a squeegee. I stood there watching. He pushed four times, and there was still an extremely thin line of air bubbles down the middle. He said it was normal. All foldables were like that.
By Jina day ago in 01
People Worry about AI too much
AI is usually quick entertainment or idea output. The real work is in taking information you may double check and working from there. Today I ran questions about my car through AI. It can tell me near what's wrong with my car so I can describe the situation better to a mechanic but am I going to try to fix it myself? No way. If you don't have the credentials then AI used as if it is an original idea generator can only go so far.
By Seashell Harpspring a day ago in 01
The Graphics Card Is Disappearing — and AI Is Why
I made a little pocket money flipping graphics cards this year. In March, I bought a 5070 Ti laptop for 14,200 yuan, used it for a couple of months, and sold it for 17,000. In July, I bought a 5070 Ti desktop for 13,800, used it for about a month, and sold it for 15,500. In October, after seeing news that HBM prices would rise again, I bought a TUF 5070 Ti for 8,200 and sold it three days later for 8,500. It was in good condition, so I didn’t push the price.
By Jin3 days ago in 01
Will You Ride In The New Tesla Roadster?
Tesla has taken electric vehicle innovation in an extraordinary direction with the unveiling of its redesigned next-generation Roadster on 15 October 2026. The vehicle attracted international attention after demonstrating the ability to drive upside down on a curved ramp, perform an airborne flip, and land using rocket-inspired thrusters developed with technology from SpaceX.
By Emma Ade5 days ago in 01
NVIDIA’s RTX Spark Wants to Put an AI Agent on Your Laptop. The 128GB Number Matters Most.
AI agents are moving faster than the devices meant to host them. Open-source projects such as OpenClaw and Hermes Agent have set records on GitHub and OpenRouter. They can reason across applications, call tools, generate content, write plug-ins, and search local files. The open question is whether ordinary users can run them safely and privately on a main PC. NVIDIA’s RTX Spark, announced at GTC Taipei, and a Windows platform co-developed with Microsoft, try to answer that question. The pitch is a shift in what a PC is for.
By Jin6 days ago in 01
I Ran DeepSeek Through a Model Fingerprinting Tool. It Called It GPT. Here’s Why I Don’t Buy It.
I ran DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash-1017 through a model fingerprinting tool last week. The result came back fast: 84.66 percent match with GPT-6 Astra, and a 90.71 percent probability that the model belonged to the GPT family. I saved the screenshot. Then I ran the test again. Different answer. This time the tool pointed at Claude Sonnet 5.5.
By Jin6 days ago in 01
Anthropic’s Coding Boom Has a Ceiling. Science Has a Waiting List.
In Q3 2026, Anthropic reported $16.8 billion in revenue, up 46.1% quarter over quarter, with adjusted profit and positive cash flow for the second consecutive quarter. Those numbers were repeated several times on the earnings call. The same materials contained another number: month-over-month growth had fallen to about 3.4%, against a prior compound monthly rate of roughly 33%. Extrapolate that slope, and year-end annualized revenue lands near $89 billion, below the market’s earlier expectation of more than $100 billion.
By Jin6 days ago in 01
AI Is Eating the Memory That Would Have Gone Into Your Next Phone
In Q3 2026, global smartphone shipments fell to 255.3 million units. That is a 22.0% drop from a year earlier. IDC calls it the largest quarterly decline on record.
By Jin7 days ago in 01