John Koetsier
@johnkoetsier
🎙️TechFirst (AI, robotics, new tech) 🎙️Growth Masterminds (growth, adtech) 🔮VP insight @ Singular ✍🏼 @ Forbes 📙No Other Gods
You can now buy a made-in-America humanoid robot for $1,688. Assembled in San Francisco. It's the Nori L3 from @NoriRobotics, and ships in the fall. It won't win any medals at the Humanoid Games ... but it's pretty cool still. All the details: www.forbes.com/sites/johnko...
The bookstore that destroys books ... Amazon started as a bookstore Now, they buy "massive quantities" of books Rip off the spines Scan them Feed the words into their AI training software This is the logo of their Las Vegas facility, VGT3, where it happens. Source: www.404media.co/we-tracked-a...
D-Wave’s $550M Quantum Computing Bet Makes Error Correction 10X Cheaper - uses a dual-rail erasure qubit - encodes a bit of quantum information across 2 superconducting microwave cavities using 1 shared photon - if it leaks, flag it Result: known issue, can be corrected for
LOL "25% faster browsing" Smartphone marketers are really struggling with metrics when 25% faster browsing is a highlight of the new Pixel 11 phones. Dunno about you, but my browsing speed is NOT limited by my devices. 😂😂😂
Chinese Companies Are Winning The Humanoid Robot Sales Battle. Here’s Why That Doesn’t Matter Yet www.forbes.com/sites/johnko...
Digit v5 is getting OUT OF THE CAGE. Agility Robotics says that their Digit humanoid robot will work cooperatively and safely with humans, no cages required. Timeline: December 2026 for early customer deployments. www.linkedin.com/pulse/digit-...
Creepy or not? This is the Noetix "Bionic Humanoid Xiaonuo." It's intended for reception work, live streaming (??), and family companionship.
LOL. Evian wants to do a YouTube partnership with me? I run a tech channel ...
OK so every AI company is now marketing by saying ... YES OUR AI IS RANDOMLY HACKING OTHER PEOPLE TOO
Listen to Humanoid Daily, episode #10: - BYD's humanoid - Ati Robotics - Unitree IPO update - India gets a humanoid - UK goes farming open.spotify.com/episode/3BP8...
China has a massive humanoid robots patent lead, either way you look at it ... Patent winners by raw count: China — 73% South Korea — 11% Japan — 7% United States — 5% Patent winners by portfolio quality: China — 63% United States — 11% Japan — 10% South Korea — 7%
Trying to walk someone through getting their speakers working on Google Meet ... 😂😂😂 Hall of mirrors, here we are.
We're so excited we can create walking robots that we forgot about inventing wheels a few thousand years ago ....
This is what it takes to drive a robot hand with near human-level dexterity ... (This is Neo by 1X ... 25 ACTUATED degrees of freedom in these hands!)
Thank you Australia! Remember when Amazon Prime had no ads? And then suddenly it did? Australia is suing Amazon for making that change unfairly according to its own terms of service.
Hello again, AI wars. The Trump administration just hit the gas on the AI wars ... even with allies. "Any kind of exemption to ... another country — even a G7 ally — would be “completely illogical." When you have a scarcity mindset ... everything is zero-sum, win or lose.
Europe doesn't mess around ... >> Landmark German ruling declares Google's AI Overviews are Google's own words and makes it liable for false answers
The iPhone = birth control? New research seems to indicate ... yes. "Overall, the diffusion of the iPhone explains 33–52% of the decline in the general fertility rate among women aged 15–44." Perhaps smartphones are a better boredom pacifier?
Wild that hackers stole Instagram accounts ... JUST BY ASKING META'S CHATBOT FOR THEM. I mean, just insane. "Meta fixed the bug that let anyone trick its Meta AI chatbot into resetting the password on Instagram accounts that didn't have two-factor authentication."
Saudi Arabia is halting construction of its $1 trillion "The Line" linear city of skyscrapers. Remember, this was supposed to be two 170-kilometer long dual skyscrapers. !!!! Feeling very vindicated: I called this instantly as soon as I saw it. Utterly idiotic.
Elon Musk's record on promises: 19%: achieved 35%: late No update: 33% 13%: date still in the future Arguably, if you're making BIG PROMISES, 1 in 5 right might not be horrible. Also arguably, if you're a public company CEO, you should have a much better track record.
Fingerprints. They stored fingerprints. And sucked at it. Amazing. >> New York public health provider NYC Health + Hospitals says a months-long data breach that allowed hackers to steal personal data, medical records, and fingerprints scans affects at least 1.8 million people
AGAIN!!! RECORD REVENUE AND LAYOFFS ANNOUNCED ON THE SAME DAY I am so tired of seeing this pattern. We have psychopath CEOs who lack all imagination: if you have new capabilities, DO NEW THINGS! Invent new tech. Expand to new markets! Use your new AI powers for GOOD.
Ever wanted a robot chef? Right in your kitchen. Right in your house. I sure have. Now we just might have hands that are good enough to make that a reality, & the AI to drive them. >> These Robot Hands Can Literally Make You An Egg Scramble Breakfast www.forbes.com/sites/johnko...
AI agents are insanely awesome. AI agents are also unimaginably stupid.
Sigh ... we live in the dumbest timeline ... President Trump's administration is paying almost $900 million to kill off two more wind power projects and steering that money into oil and gas projects.
The fighters in the battle for the future of AI: - NVIDIA (heavyweight champion) - Google (TPUs) - Amazon (Graviton) - Huawei (Ascend) And then a bunch of startups with neuromorphic or mega-chip strategies that will, if they look promising, get bought up. Anything else?