The tech allows a robot to operate based on both language commands and environmental surroundings.Are you ready for robotic coworkers? Google may be able to make collaborating with them a little simpler: The company is seeking to patent a system for “controlling robots using multi-modal language models” that essentially allows the machines to operate based on both language commands and environmental surroundings. To do this, Google’s system gathers environmental data collected via sensors, such as cameras or motion detectors, and textual...

AI’s Next Enterprise Advantage May Come Less from Automation Itself Than from How Firms Redesign Work Around Human Agency.Microsoft’s 2026 Work Trend Index Annual Report argues that the real shift underway in enterprise AI is not simply the spread of better tools. It is the emergence of a new operating model built around people, agents, and the systems that connect them. The report’s core claim is that as AI agents take on more execution, human agency expands. Workers gain more room to direct the work, set intent, exercise judgment, and o...

Triomics, a startup building an AI-powered platform to help oncologists and administrative staff automate data-heavy tasks like clinical trial matching and appointment prep, has raised $22 million in Series B funding.The round was led by Battery Ventures, with participation from returning backers Nexus Venture Partners, Lightspeed, Y Combinator, and others.The good news is that oncology breakthroughs are keeping patients alive longer. That welcome trend, however, is creating dense, multi-year medical records that take healthcare staff a long...

Chinese consumers are showing signs of a renewed appetite for high-end beauty and fashion products, a rare bright spot for global luxury brands.Sales at Chinese brick-and-mortar stores of brands including Louis Vuitton and Burberry returned to growth during the first quarter, while high-end beauty sales on Alibaba's e-commerce platforms rose 39% in the first four months of the year.The tentative rebound in demand could help stabilize margins for luxury and cosmetics groups as they begin to wind down heavy online promotions and discounts.Chin...

Marks & Spencer has added three vertically farmed salads to its UK shelves: Citrus Sorrel Baby Leaves, Spicy Baby Leaves and Baby Garlic Kale, developed in partnership with Italian vertical farming company Planet Farms. The leaves grow indoors under UV light in a soil-free environment with controlled temperature, water and nutrient delivery and are then packed within 60 seconds of harvest. According to the retailer, the salads stay fresh roughly five days longer than a conventional supermarket bag and need no washing.The environmental nu...

Specialized medical roles account for 24 of America’s 30 highest-paying jobs.Pediatric surgeons rank first, earning a mean annual wage of about $451,000.Many of the highest-paying jobs are also rare, with several employing fewer than 10,000 people nationwide.Want to earn more than $300,000 a year in America? The clearest path is still a highly specialized medical career.This ranking of America’s highest-paying occupations uses U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) data to compare mean annual wages and total employment across the country’s...

There is a particular challenge that confronts any building asked to stand at a prominent corner in one of São Paulo’s most culturally dense neighborhoods.it has to earn its place visually without performing for the street at the expense of the people inside it. The Valente building, completed by FGMF Arquitetos for developer Idea!Zarvos in the Pinheiros district, resolves that tension in a way that is worth paying attention to.The 21-story mixed-use tower sits at the intersection of Cardeal Arcoverde and Capote Valente streets, right at t...

Every time you open an umbrella, you’re deploying a canopy of wasted real estate. That dark stretched fabric sits between you and the sun, absorbing heat, blocking light, doing absolutely nothing with the energy raining down on it. For a surface that spends its entire working life pointed directly at the sky, that feels like a missed opportunity of the highest order.Victoria García Moreno, a student at Universidad Casa Blanca in Mexico, decided to do something about it. Her James Dyson Award entry takes the umbrella’s canopy and lines it...

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