We started the TIME100 AI three years ago with the goal of determining who were the most influential leaders in artificial intelligence, knowing that such a list would serve as a guide for our readers seeking to understand a booming field. Since then, if your experience with AI is anything like mine, the technology has gone from a curiosity to a constant in how we work and organize our lives. It’s become a primary way the world seeks out knowledge.The activity in AI has been explosive and divisive, filled with big promises and big fears. Th...

Hugging Face has unveiled the Microduck, a small open-source robot designed to make physical AI more accessible to developers and researchers.Developed with French robotics company Pollen Robotics, the duck-shaped robot is priced at $399 and is expected to begin shipping before Christmas.The Microduck can be programmed and trained by developers, with its software, simulation tools and reinforcement-learning stack made available for experimentation and further development.The launch adds another low-cost hardware platform to Hugging Face’s g...

The share of Americans who say they drink alcohol remains at a record-low 54% for the second consecutive year, the lowest reading in Gallup’s trend dating back to 1939.54% of U.S. adults say they drink alcohol, matching last year’s low13% say they sometimes drink too much, also a record low17% of Americans have substituted nonalcoholic beverages for alcoholSelf-reported drinking fell over the previous three years, from 62% in 2023 to 58% in 2024 and 54% in 2025, before holding steady this year. Gallup based the latest results on interviews...

‘Collapsible scissored surfaces’ complete trilogy of metamaterial design principles.Over the past decade, Professor L. Mahadevan’s Soft Math Lab at the Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS) has helped establish how the ancient Japanese paper arts of folding or cutting can be used to inverse design structures that transform dramatically in shape and function.Now, the researchers have created a new class of shape-changing matter, based not on folds or cuts, but linkages — networks of interconnected sciss...

Many research teams have been exploring ways to passively monitor people’s movements, which could be used in rehabilitation or improving interactions between humans and robotic systems. However, these systems often require a lot of power or interfere with a person’s natural movement, making it challenging to find a solution that works well outside of laboratory conditions.In a recent study, one team in India tested a motion-sensing system that is easily incorporated on top of a person’s clothing, requires very little power, and offers hig...

Despite the tech industry’s conviction that the rise of AI is an inflection point that will change the course of humanity, many humans remain skeptic whether the new direction we’re headed in is the right one. The pace at which AI seems to be taking over parts of our lives, whether we like it or not, is especially worrisome to many.In a recent Statista Consumer Insights survey, 31 percent of U.S. respondents said that they were worried about the speed at which AI is developing and 25 percent of respondents claimed to be avoiding AI whereve...

You get light from above. You get wind from above too. So at some point, somebody was bound to ask the obvious next question, why not sound from above as well? Ceiling fans have spent years quietly doing side quests with built-in lamps, remote controls, and the occasional smart feature, but this feels like the first time one has aimed for proper living room territory. The lamp-plus-fan combo has always felt like a polite upgrade to an appliance nobody was particularly excited about.WindGroove’s AirFi One takes that idea and runs with it, fo...

MONTHLY TREND REPORT - September. 2026 Edition Released !TRENDBIRD (What's the Next Big Thing ?) is a Global Trend Sensing & Market Intelligence Service that Instantly Delivers Industry Expert Information on Emerging Trends & Future Business Opportunities from Around the World, Always Ahead of The Curve." Executive Summary & Key Insights1. 비즈니스 및 전략 트렌드 (Business & Strategy) ▸AI 전환의 성패가 '기술 구매'에서 '조직 실행'으로: 기술 1:프로세스 3:인적 역량 5의 배분을 제시한 McKinsey와 성공의 70%를 사람/조직에 둔 BCG의...

1. (PDF) Mckinsey의 2026 글로벌 기업의 AI 도입 현황 보고서 : ROI를 향한 여정글로벌 AI 도입 확산과 ROI 격차: 기업의 89%가 AI를 도입하고 44%가 전사 스케일업을 달성했으나, EBIT 개선 성과를 보고한 기업 비율은 37%로 정체되며 개인 생산성과 기업 재무 성과 간의 격차 노출.Agentic Coding 기반의 자체 개발 전환: 대기업의 40%가 AI 에이전트를 도입한 가운데, 에이전트 코딩 도구를 활용해 기존 Commercial software 구매 대신 자체 구축(Build-over-buy)으로 전환하는 기조 뚜렷.Tokenomics 관리 및 High Performer의 아키텍처: Token 비용 상승이 디자인 제약으로 작용함에...