Europe’s AI Future May Be Less About Job Loss Than About Rebuilding Work Around People, Agents, and RobotsMcKinsey Global Institute’s new report, Agents, robots, and us: How AI reshapes work and skills in Europe, argues that Europe is moving toward a new labor model in which people increasingly work alongside AI agents and robots rather than simply being replaced by them. The report frames this shift as especially important for Europe because the region is facing an aging workforce, persistent labor shortages, and weaker productivity growt...

Forget legs or hands—Stretch 4 is a useful robot that can actually work in homes.Many roboticists (and at least one robotics journalist) have been seduced by the dream of a robot butler. And the rampant popularity of videos showing humanoid robots doing household tasks in improbably clean kitchens and unrealistically tidy bedrooms suggests that we’re not the only ones interested in a robot that can do our chores. But for all kinds of reasons, legged humanoids are not yet ready for industrial or commercial applications at scale, and home ap...

For the first time since the AI race began, more American businesses are paying for Anthropic's Claude than for OpenAI's ChatGPT. Adoption of Anthropic rose 3.8% in April to 34.4% of businesses, according to the May 2026 release of the Ramp AI Index. OpenAI's adoption fell 2.9% to 32.3%. Overall AI adoption among businesses rose 0.2 percentage points to 50.6%. The crossover — published Tuesday by Ramp, the corporate card and finance automation platform that tracks spending patterns across more than 50,000 U.S. businesses — marks the culmin...

Electronic rings wirelessly connected to an AI system are capable of translating multiple sign languages into text, a new study finds.“I believe this is an important step toward making sign language translation systems more practical, lightweight, and usable in real-world environments,” says Ki Jun Yu, an associate professor of electrical and electronic engineering at Yonsei University in Korea.More than 300 differen tsign languages are used worldwide, and many research projects are developing translation devices for communicating with peo...

1. (PDF) PwC 보고서 - AI에서 ROI를 얻고 싶다면? 비용 절감이 아닌 '성장 엔진'으로의 전환 전략선도 기업과 후발 주자 간의 재무 성과 양극화 심화: 최상위 20% 기업이 전체 AI 수익의 74%를 독식하며, AI 적합도가 높은 기업의 재무 성과가 타사 대비 7.2배 높게 나타나는 격차 확인.비즈니스 모델 재창조와 산업 융합의 가치 포착: AI를 단순 내부 생산성 도구가 아닌 산업 간 경계를 허물고 새로운 가치 풀(Value Pool)을 찾아내는 '성장 및 재발명 엔진'으로 활용하는 전략 안착.신뢰 기반의 거버넌스와 재사용 가능한 기술 기초 구축: 책임 있는 AI 프레임워크와 중앙 집중식 AI...

The Apple Watch won't be getting any extra biometric security measures anytime soon, because it's an engineering nightmare.Like other Apple products, there are security measures in place on the Apple Watch to make sure only the owner can use it. However, while it is one of the few Apple products to not include biometric security, it's going to be that way for a long time.In a Monday post to Weibo, serial leaker Instant Digital denounces apparent rumors of Apple bringing some form of biometric security to the Apple Watch as pure speculation.T...

The Biggest Returns from AI Are Coming to Companies That Treat It as a Growth Engine, Not Just a Cost Tool.PwC’s new AI performance study suggests that the gap between companies experimenting with AI and those actually creating value from it is already widening fast. The report finds that the most AI-fit companies deliver AI-driven financial performance 7.2 times higher than other businesses, while 20% of the 1,217 companies surveyed capture 74% of all AI-driven returns. That makes the current AI race less a story about who has the most pil...

Musely, a direct-to-consumer telemedicine platform focused on prescription skincare, hair treatment, and menopause care, has secured more than $360 million in non-dilutive financingfrom General Catalyst’s Customer Value Fund (CVF), highlighting the growing popularity of alternative startup financing structures that avoid traditional venture capital dilution.Founded in 2014 by Jack Jia, Musely originally launched as a wellness community platform before pivoting into prescription skincare and telemedicine services in 2019. The company has rep...

UNICEF Spain redirects the unspent money sitting on festival cashless wristbands into donations, targeting funds that attendees had already written off.At music festivals, attendees often load money onto cashless wristbands to pay for drinks, food and merch. They almost always overshoot. The leftover balance, sometimes a few euros, sometimes more, theoretically belongs to the attendee, who can claim it back through a refund process that opens days after an event ends. A meaningful share goes unredeemed. Cash Forward, a new initiative from UN...