This is today's edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what's going on in the world of technology.

If most robots still need remote human operators to be safe and effective, why should we welcome them into our homes?

New AI agents will have far greater power to subtly direct what we buy, where we go, and what we read. That is an ...

As Alphabet’s Waymo scales up its self-driving service, some passengers recount feeling unsafe when strangers interfered with ...

WALLACE & Gromit master-mind Nick Park describes his new film as “Cape Fear with penguins” – and only created it so he could share a fun joke about artificial intelligence. His much-loved ...

Earlier this year, TCL released a trailer for Next Stop Paris — an AI-animated short film that seems like a Lifetime movie on steroids. The trailer had all the hallmarks of AI: characters that don’t ...

Through AI, they have the same likeness of me, and it’s like I can be everything that they want me to be in a sense,” Chloe Amour said.

Earlier this month, startup Embodied announced that it is going out of business and taking its Moxie robot with it. The $800 ...

Chinese robotics firm Agibot mass-produces humanoid robots, aiming for 1,000 units by year-end, while Tesla plans 2026 launch ...

While a lot of people called the video a hoax, both the Shanghai showroom owners and the manufacturers of the robots say the ...

Natasha Jaques, an assistant professor at the University of Washington's Paul G. Allen School of Computer Science & Engineering. (UW Photo) As ...

With the overwhelming rise of AI, it’s not surprising that so many movies touch on the topic. It seems like half the ...