This Week in Tech 95

Samsung GalaxyXR headset is $1800 powered by AndroidXR, ChatGPT Atlas AI browser enhances productivity and robotics inches closer to being in your home.

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Artificial Intelligence

  1. ChatGPT releases their new AI browser - Atlas

    Atlas joins the ranks of Perplexity’s Comet and Google’s Chrome to challenge the browser market with their AI-infused experience. (Reuters)

  2. Is the news you’re reading written by an AI or a human?

    We used to use AI for our content, but now it’s just a supporting tool and not an author. Recently we entered an era where there are more AI generated articles than human written ones. Interesting times ahead for the Internet. (Futurism)

  3. AI companies are racing to build a virtual human cell - but why?

    The goal of all these endeavors is to predict how both healthy and diseased cells work, in so much detail that it’s possible to speed up the development of drugs and accelerate scientific discoveries. (Time)

  4. Claude Code is now accessible via the web and mobile

    That means it’s now possible for a developer to start a task on their phone, grab a coffee or attend yet another meeting (sigh!), and come back to pick up where the agent left off. (The New Stack)

  5. General Intuition lands $134M to teach AI agents spatial reasoning

    Medal is a platform for uploading and sharing video game clips and they just spun out a new AI research lab that is building AI models and agents that can understand how objects and entities move through space and time. (TechCrunch)


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Spatial Computing

  1. Palmer Luckey breaks down EagleEye on Joe Rogan

    Check out the latest podcast episode where Palmer Luckey explains the sci-fi superpowers that his latest product gives our soldiers. (YouTube)

  2. Samsung unveils GalaxyXR Apple Vision Pro competitor for $1800

    Another tech giant is pursuing the next era of computing with their Virtual and Mixed Reality headset that is differentiated by deeply integrated Gemini AI functionality from Google and AndroidXR. (UploadVR)

  3. ThreeJS continues to inch closer to the fidelity of Unity and Unreal

    This JavaScript framework for web development is allowing developers to create lifelike 3D scenes that are accessible across devices through the browser. (X)

Robotics

  1. Unitree’s new H2 full size humanoid robot is 5’11 and 153 lbs

    While dancing is the main method of demonstration this is a larger robot that I wouldn’t want to meet down a dark alley. (Humanoids Daily)

  2. 1X teases a major announcement with a video of their robot vacuuming

    The race to deliver a humanoid robot to the home to tackle our chores continues to heat up. Last time it was Figure and we’ll have to wait until 10/28 to see what 1X has been cooking. (X)

  3. Sharpa Robotics begins shipping its SharpaWave Hand

    While details on pricing have not yet been released, the hand's advanced sensing features position it as a new option for researchers and developers working on the frontiers of robotic dexterity and intelligent manipulation. (Humanoids Daily)

Everything else

  1. AWS outage takes down a majority of the Internet

    While services have returned to normal there are still many questions about how these widespread outages occur and how to prevent them. (Reuters)

  2. Apple and F1 signed a 5-year deal for F1 races exclusively on AppleTV

    The partnership kicks off in 2026. Looks like Apple and Brad Pitt’s successful cinema showing is just the beginning. (Apple)

Our vision

Exciting progress this week across the industries we focus on. Artificial intelligence has more announcements than we can write about in this format so maybe we’ll need to have a dedicated AI edition if this keeps up. ChatGPT’s Atlas browser will be another option alongside Perplexity’s Comet that we look forward to trying out. We’ve been using Comet for a few week’s now and while there aren’t major differences besides top level searching there are still moments when I find myself needing to go to Google for search. The AI agent integration is helpful when you can ask it about the webpage you’re looking at in a window adjacent to the site. Atlas can apparently fill out forms and click through webpages for you which shows promise of virtual agent assistants.

Recently the number of AI written articles has eclipsed human written. That is a scary fact that we thankfully are not contributing to. We use AI to help us research or synthesize complex information before we transform it into our own language. But the fact that >50% of articles are written by AI now is bad for the Internet and for humans. Studies show that when we rely too much on AI to handle tasks like writing our own abilities to perform those tasks diminish.

Samsung held a weirdly timed conference last night for east coasters at 10pm to unveil their GalaxyXR Apple Vision Pro competitor. It looks eerily similar to Meta’s Quest Pro but is tethered and has a suite of software unavailable to Quest users. The deep AI integration with Google and AndroidXR shows a lot of promise for interesting use cases that could prove to be a factor in adoption for the device. Even though we work in the field and are excited about the technology, there is still a gap to be closed when it comes to mass adoption in the market. This form factor is still going to keep people using it in the home mainly and the price point most likely means that it will be for early adopters as form and price both move towards a consumer friendly position.

Robotics companies continue to iterate and release new versions. Unitree’s new robot is almost my size (I’m 6’2) standing at a tall 5’11 and 150ish pounds. Yet again though the company only showed it dancing rather than doing more complex tasks like taking care of chores around the house. 1X’s teaser of their robot using an old school vacuum is more intriguing because we don’t want our robots or AI to do all the fun things in life we want them to do the things that we don’t enjoy like cleaning the house. We’ll see what their announcement holds on 10/28.

Lastly the AWS outage took down a major portion of the Internet and demonstrates how reliant we are on their services. While many sites were down X was still running and demonstrates the benefits of having in-house servers that aren’t depending on a third party for operations. Will we see more companies go this route as instability and cyberattacks continue to grow as we rush into a future that is dominated by technology?

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