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A robotics startup in Shenzhen called Mind On has upgraded the Unitree G1 humanoid with an advanced robot brain. With this upgrade, the robot can perform everyday tasks on its own without human control. It was shown watering plants, opening curtains, cleaning, and moving items independently.

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“In the next decade, the most valuable AI won't be the one that knows everything about the world; it will be the one that knows everything about you. The firms that own the model weights of that intelligence will own the market.” 👇🏼

One of the giants of continental philosophy, Charles Scott (@VanderbiltU and @penn_state), has died. as.vanderbilt.edu/philosophy/202…

Findings from the Systematizing Confidence in Open Research and Evidence (SCORE) program — a collaborative effort involving 865 researchers — have been published in Nature as a collection of three papers alongside a release of five additional preprints. The SCORE program offers new empirical evidence on the reproducibility, robustness, and replicability of research across the social and behavioral sciences, and the predictability of replicability. phys.org/news/2026-03-r… @physorg_com

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"… higher education must develop students into fluent, intelligent, and ethical users of #AI and work to ensure that the benefits of AI reach broadly across communities," writes Marie Lynn Miranda in a new #ScienceEditorial. scim.ag/4tmnrV8

Engineers have long tried to mimic life. … Now they are skipping imitation altogether. Instead of taking inspiration from biology, they are building robots out of it… 👇

Can AI apps replace teachers? Experts urge caution over school model “AI can adapt to students, but 'it can't encourage, it can't support' like real teachers: school superintendent” ⇩

Offering scientists cash to spot errors in published papers doesn’t work By Dalmeet Singh Chawla @DalmeetS via @ScienceMagazine A project that offers researchers a cash bounty for finding mistakes in published scientific papers has run into trouble: It can’t find enough reviewers to do the work. Now, organizers of the Estimating the Reliability and Robustness of Research (ERROR) project are planning to throw in an additional incentive, by publishing the reviews in a new peer-reviewed journal. science.org/content/articl… @ScienceMagazine

AI Pushing Students to Consider Changing Majors, Data Shows insidehighered.com/news/quick-tak… @insidehighered

When AI Gets It Wrong: A Pedagogical Approach via @facultyfocus facultyfocus.com/articles/teach… #pedagogy #highered #edtech #GenAI #ailiteracy #aiready #aifluency

SARS-CoV-2 variant BA.3.2 ('cicada') monitoring emphasizes no cause for alarm medicalxpress.com/news/2026-04-s… @medical_xpress

Microbiologist Reveals The Leftovers Most Likely to Cause Food Poisoning sciencealert.com/microbiologist… @ScienceAlert

Marketers need to pay more attention to how marketing practices normalize the consumption of products that are known to be harmful to public health and social well-being, University of Otago—Ōtākou Whakaihu Waka researchers argue. phys.org/news/2026-04-l… @physorg_com

Living Neurobot Blurs Line Between Cells and Machines - IEEE Spectrum spectrum.ieee.org/neurobot-livin…

Medetomidine, which is also known as 'rhino tranq,' or 'dex', is ​not approved for human use. It has increasingly been detected in law enforcement drug seizures, Stopping medetomidine after regular use can trigger severe life-threatening drug withdrawal. reuters.com/business/healt…

AI may be making us more productive, but are we learning less? New research suggests AI can weaken deep understanding while creating an illusion of competence. If it’s an “exoskeleton,” what happens to the muscle underneath? open.substack.com/pub/davidpblro… #AIinEducation #EdTech #K12 #CriticalThinking #GenAI #edtech #GenAI #ailiteracy #aiready #aifluency #criticalthinking #cognitiveoffloading @aiedu_org @aerdf

This is how you can reduce your risk of getting dementia weforum.org/agenda/2024/08… via @wef #Alzheimers #dementia #health #wellness