JoAnn M. Laing

JoAnn M. Laing, Chair of The National Robotics Education Foundation, has 21+ years experience with advanced technologies (robotics, AI, ML, NLP, etc.).

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#Microsoft is offering #voluntary #buyouts to about 60,000 employees, or about 27% of its global #workforce, as the technology giant invests more in #ArtificialIintelligence.

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#ApolloGlobalManagement warns that #AI #profits remain exclusive to #BigTech. #Outside the industry, mainstream companies are seeing #zero financial #payoff—viewing AI costs as a drag on margins rather than a growth engine. https://t.co/jhitHm8owt

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#China's humanoid #robot industry is moving from single-machine demonstration toward large-scale deployment, as 110 humanoid robots set a #GuinnessWorldRecords title for the most humanoid robots #dancing simultaneously. https://t.co/ymaLaovMCe

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#OpenAI is rolling out a PIN/biometric lock for ChatGPT chats to hide them from history & screen shares.
But "private" doesn't mean encrypted or hidden from model training. Plus, forgetting your PIN permanently deletes them https://t.co/bZ9mlq3a7u

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#Anthropic’s response to #AI #safety concerns? Raising a #PublicBenefitFund. The startup will funnel 5% of its IPO shares into a fund that will try to mitigate the harmful effects of AI on the job market. https://t.co/1BNwDg6FhY

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More Funding Raises: #Xona $250M Series D; #Pigment $250M Series E

More Acquisitions: #Tegria > #CloudWave; #Wateralia > #CSA

Agreed Mergers: #HorizonSpaceI & #ArcheNova; #PyrophyteII & #Sakuu; #TriGemXBio & #TCGXAcquisitionCorp

IPO: #CityTherapeutics (CTY) $200M

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Agreed Acquisitions: #IonQ > #Elisity; #LondonSockExchangeGroup > #Octus; #Merck > #SilenceTherapeutics; #PilotFiber > #BoldynNetworks; #PureGym > #NonStopGym; #Salesforce > #Braze; #SchneiderElectric > #PTC; #TAAssociates > #MedEnvision; #TraneTechnologies > #CancoilThermal

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Acquisitions: #Boomi > #ElementaryData; #Bose > #SkullCandy; #Chapter > #Ridgeway; #CSLGroup > #SIMPLWireless; #Destinus > #PercivAI; #Further > #Welbi; #LRQA > #OmegaCompliance; #Newforma > #LumiAI; #OpenAI > #OrchestraBio; #Rivian > #ThirdDimension; #Stonbury > #ThompsonsGroup

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Funding Raises: #DeepSeek $15N 2nd Private Financing; #Tenstorrent $1.5B Series E; #FlappingAirplanes $1B Series A; #Legora $550M Series E; #NeolixTechnologies $400M Series E; #ASI $325M Series C; #Otter.ai $320M Growth Financing; #OMassTherapeutics $310M Series C

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#Surgical #robots are transforming the knee replacement market as younger, active patients drive down the average age of joint replacements. #SmithandNephew is seeking a turnaround with its cheaper #Cori #robotic platform & new Landmark #ArtificialKnee. https://t.co/mXN5TLa56R

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Security researchers used #AI to turn PHP flaws into working exploits (#PHP2Shell), letting #attackers run code without a password. With PHP powering 69.3% of sites, act fast: #patches were released Oct 21. Ask your security team or host to confirm you're patched.

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#Microsoft launched #Copilot for #Legal, bringing 20+ AI skills directly into Microsoft 365. Though late behind rivals, Microsoft’s deep integration into existing workflows gives it a major competitive edge in the legal industry. https://t.co/ccDABxclZN

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#Nvidia is expanding its efforts to prevent AI agents from going rogue and teaming up with #AgileRobots on a new humanoid #robot reference design. Its #OpenShellReferenceArchitecture will allow customers to build, contain & observe AI agents. https://t.co/ShYLv3jRDo

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#TVs have gotten so complicated that people are vibe-coding them to be dumb again. Several developers are offering solutions for smart TVs to remove ads, data tracking, simplify the home screen and more. https://t.co/wrUlJUhzyC

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#Neura’s perception-language-action AI model combines vision, touch & audio to improve #robotic perception.
But while multi-sensory input can help robots handle tasks that cameras alone can't detect, it’s unclear Neura can collect enough well-annotated, multimodal training data.

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According to security firm #Norforge, a hacker used an army of autonomous #AIagents on the open-source platform #Cairn to breach over 100 websites, including #JohnDeere, #SharkNinja & #Cummin, taking around 23 hours per attack.
https://t.co/M3srxlQ4q8

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A high-tech #robot (about the size of a dog & covered in sensors) is adding an extra layer of #security at businesses to track down security threats. The device checks gates, doors, locks and looks for people in places where they shouldn’t be. https://t.co/06sce1iBGM

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Enterprise controls can’t keep up with #AIagents.
Advances in agentic AI are outpacing businesses’ ability to control the action of autonomous agents. Giving an AI agent authority is relatively easy. Keeping track of that authority once the agent starts using it is harder.

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#Robots not talking to each other makes it hard for industrial enterprises to coordinate the work of multiple robots. Advanced physical AI is one way to do it, but it remains unclear how much the lack of robot #interoperability is hindering adoption in the short term.

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#Nvidia added new fully open models to its #Nemotron line: Nemotron 3.5 Super VL, Nemotron 3.5 Lightning & the edge-focused Bolt models. They are part of Nvidia’s approach to support the larger #OpenSource #AI community & further the global AI ecosystem based on its GPUs.