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Does giving an AI assistant its entire lengthy conversation history make it smarter? In a small-scale test using a fictional person, an approach that searches for and supplies only the relevant parts achieved both a higher success rate and lower cost than one that provided the full history.

Arita ware, made in and around Arita Town in Saga Prefecture, is porcelain produced through a division of labor. This article considers how AI transcription and other tools can document craftspeople’s judgments and knowledge of each stage, and pass them on to the next generation—not by replacing people, but by supporting them.

Amazon-owned Bee has announced two AI devices, Bee Frontier and Bee Eclipse, that summarize conversations and turn them into calendar events and tasks. Priced at $74.99 and $99.99, respectively, they point to a vision of personal AI that handles everything from recording to execution—and raise privacy questions about entrusting it with conversations.

Google’s Gary Illyes and Cherry Prommawin explained in a video how URLs are handled in search. They said keywords have a “very small” impact on rankings. Here is a look at URL design, including the use of hyphens and the handling of emoji.

The hardest part of robotics development comes when moving from a working prototype to mass production. We take a closer look at what ADI’s planned Emerging Tech Hub entails and the terms of collaboration that matter to startups.

The AI research group Swarmchasers reported that it had exchanged messages with a group of AI agents running on Tencent Cloud in China. The exchange was prompted by hidden text embedded in a report. We look at the group’s investigative methods and the challenge of auditing AI systems that connect to external services.

Anthropic’s Jack Clark said there is more than a 50% chance that AI will reach the point of being able to train successor AI by 2027. At the same time, he said the prospect of AI carrying out self-improvement next year is “close to zero.” We unpack the distinction between capability and execution.

Sweden-based Flox Intelligence is rolling out AI-powered wildlife deterrents that change their sounds based on animals’ species and behavior. The company says about 150 units are operating at airports and along railways, among other sites, and that it has begun raising $10 million in a Series A.

Microsoft has officially released MXC, an isolated environment for AI agents on Windows 11. Runtime policies define the scope of file and network access and separate agents from human work environments. We examine how to choose among its four isolation methods and what they mean for day-to-day operations.

Google doesn’t read PDFs as-is; it converts them to HTML for search processing. This article covers how links are handled, how PDFs appear in AI search, caveats for image-only PDFs, and practical reasons to choose HTML.

Google has begun offering Gemini 4 Argon worldwide. We examine the gap between its capabilities and how much it can be trusted with, from API pricing and benchmarks to real-world reliability and evaluations of its ability to evade monitoring.

SoftBank subsidiary SB Intuitions has launched a free beta of its Japan-developed generative AI, Sarashina. Here’s a look at what users can try with chat and six API models, along with the conditions to check before using the service.