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In case you missed it, Demis wrote an article on X around a framework for regulating frontier AI res...

Rowan Cheung (@rowancheung) — Tue, 21 Jul 2026 15:49:20 GMT

In case you missed it, Demis wrote an article on X around a framework for regulating frontier AI responsibly

He also mentioned cybersecurity risks, and named nuclear and bio as threats that may emerge as capabilities advance:

Demis Hassabis@demishassabis

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AI models pushing the frontier are a growing challenge for cybersecurity. A few weeks ago, I asked ...

Rowan Cheung (@rowancheung) — Tue, 21 Jul 2026 15:49:18 GMT

AI models pushing the frontier are a growing challenge for cybersecurity.

A few weeks ago, I asked Demis what's underhyped in AI right now and on his mind:

"I'm very excited about this new agentic era and you can see us leaning into that"

"But of course we've also gotta think about the security side of that, too"

"You're seeing it a little bit with the cyber worries about some of the models, and I think that's just the beginning of some of the issues that we need to make sure we guard against"

"So I think that's playing a little bit on my mind. Maybe this is the time now to try and push some standards and maybe international cooperation"

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When you're done, it drives back to its dock, recharges, refills, and empties its waste into the hom...

Rowan Cheung (@rowancheung) — Mon, 20 Jul 2026 15:43:16 GMT

When you're done, it drives back to its dock, recharges, refills, and empties its waste into the home’s plumbing

If the dock has no drainage, an extending arm pumps the waste into a regular toilet instead

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It uses the same technology found in advanced robot vacuums -- lidar, ultrasonic sensors, and cliff ...

Rowan Cheung (@rowancheung) — Mon, 20 Jul 2026 15:43:12 GMT

It uses the same technology found in advanced robot vacuums -- lidar, ultrasonic sensors, and cliff detection

This helps the toilet plan safe routes and steer around obstacles and stairs

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A Chinese company just revealed this autonomous robot toilet It literally drives itself to you when...

Rowan Cheung (@rowancheung) — Mon, 20 Jul 2026 15:43:07 GMT

A Chinese company just revealed this autonomous robot toilet

It literally drives itself to you when you summon it by voice or remote

What a time to be alive

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Every trip to NYC makes the case a little stronger.

Rowan Cheung (@rowancheung) — Fri, 17 Jul 2026 15:41:03 GMT

Every trip to NYC makes the case a little stronger.

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Researchers used high-res X-ray scans, then machine learning detected faint traces of ancient ink hi...

Rowan Cheung (@rowancheung) — Mon, 13 Jul 2026 15:45:24 GMT

Researchers used high-res X-ray scans, then machine learning detected faint traces of ancient ink hidden in the fibres.

It worked. One scroll turned out to be a work on stoic philosophy.

Now the race is on to uncover hundreds more.

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The Herculaneum scrolls were buried under this Roman villa when Mount Vesuvius erupted in 79 AD. Ev...

Rowan Cheung (@rowancheung) — Mon, 13 Jul 2026 15:45:19 GMT

The Herculaneum scrolls were buried under this Roman villa when Mount Vesuvius erupted in 79 AD.

Every attempt to physically unroll them since has instantly destroyed the layers.

In 2023, a global contest called the Vesuvius Challenge launched to use AI to read the scrolls.

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AI is going to uncover thousands of hidden moments in history. Case in point: it just read a 2,000-...

Rowan Cheung (@rowancheung) — Mon, 13 Jul 2026 15:45:14 GMT

AI is going to uncover thousands of hidden moments in history.

Case in point: it just read a 2,000-year-old scroll burned into solid charcoal.

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The full interview: https://t.co/23MCllMiTx

Rowan Cheung (@rowancheung) — Fri, 10 Jul 2026 17:53:32 GMT

The full interview: youtube.com/watch?v=WuTJkF…

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Many people were doubting Meta's position in the AI race. Yesterday, they dropped Muse Spark 1.1, n...

Rowan Cheung (@rowancheung) — Fri, 10 Jul 2026 17:31:49 GMT

Many people were doubting Meta's position in the AI race.

Yesterday, they dropped Muse Spark 1.1, now one of the strongest agentic models, and massively undercut OpenAI and Anthropic on price.

When I interviewed Zuck last year, he told me his focus:

"Have by far the highest compute per researcher, and that we do whatever it takes to go build out all that capacity."

These are the first real signs that the bet -- spending tens of billions on compute -- is paying off. 

Meta's stock is now up over 10% since the release.

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(1) Today we're releasing Muse Spark 1.1 -- a strong agentic and coding model at a very low price. It's available through our new Meta Model API and in Meta AI.

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Another video from the founder here: https://t.co/PULkeVJQw1

Rowan Cheung (@rowancheung) — Mon, 29 Jun 2026 15:50:17 GMT

Another video from the founder here: x.com/garthsc/status…

Garth Sheldon-Coulson@garthsc

Today we're announcing @_panthalassa’s $140M Series B, led by Peter Thiel, with participation from John Doerr and many other incredible investors. The mission: unlock the ocean as another planetary-scale energy resource for humanity. First stop: compute.

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There's a startup trying to build data centers in the ocean. And it's INCREDIBLY fascinating: Mass...

Rowan Cheung (@rowancheung) — Mon, 29 Jun 2026 15:50:14 GMT

There's a startup trying to build data centers in the ocean.

And it's INCREDIBLY fascinating:

Mass consumption of electricity and water is a growing bottleneck for data centers.

So by moving offshore, it eliminates both problems -- the ocean provides unlimited cooling, and the waves provide unlimited power.

There are also no engines, so the data centers drive themselves to their destination by using the shape of their hull to propel through waves.

Called Panthalassa.

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It's a huge honor to translate the fastest-moving industry of our time for millions of people every ...

Rowan Cheung (@rowancheung) — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 13:10:44 GMT

It's a huge honor to translate the fastest-moving industry of our time for millions of people every day. My job is awesome.

Our mission is to turn AI into a practical skill for 1 billion people.

This partnership is how we get there faster, and we're just getting started 🫡

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Sign up at https://t.co/FWQOk7232B and read more about the partnership here: https://t.co/RrkTglXGGg

Rowan Cheung (@rowancheung) — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 13:10:44 GMT

Sign up at therundown.ai and read more about the partnership here: electrify.video/news/electrify…

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Three years ago, I started by posting Twitter threads into the void (back when it was called Twitter...

Rowan Cheung (@rowancheung) — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 13:10:41 GMT

Three years ago, I started by posting Twitter threads into the void (back when it was called Twitter)

I had no following, no co-founder, no investors, and was working 12+ hours a day making content, writing a daily newsletter, AND testing every new AI tool.

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But I got VERY lucky early on in two ways: 1) My content took off, which fed organic growth into th...

Rowan Cheung (@rowancheung) — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 13:10:41 GMT

But I got VERY lucky early on in two ways:

1) My content took off, which fed organic growth into the newsletter

2) I brought on two amazing people: @joeycyliu to run partnerships and @Ghost_Z12 to write the daily newsletter

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NEWS: The Rundown just took its first strategic investment from Electrify (behind brands like Verit...

Rowan Cheung (@rowancheung) — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 13:10:40 GMT

NEWS:

The Rundown just took its first strategic investment from Electrify (behind brands like Veritasium, Fireship, and more)!

Through this partnership, we can scale significantly faster toward our mission of educating 1B people on AI.

The story below:

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Also available on YT for those that prefer! https://t.co/oxh6C3Cptd

Rowan Cheung (@rowancheung) — Tue, 26 May 2026 19:21:34 GMT

Also available on YT for those that prefer! youtube.com/watch?v=4tVCHe…

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Interview with Demis interview also now live: https://t.co/jjmkz3q2o1

Rowan Cheung (@rowancheung) — Tue, 26 May 2026 19:20:01 GMT

Interview with Demis interview also now live: x.com/rowancheung/st…

Rowan Cheung@rowancheung

Google DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis says we’re in the ‘foothills of the singularity’

I sat down with him to talk about what that means, curing every disease, and human meaning post-AGI:

00 Intro
45 What Demis is most excited about at I/O
46 Have AGI timelines shifted?
30 What's still missing before AGI
50 AI curing every disease 
19 What diseases get cured first?
50 What Demis works on after AGI
48 Human meaning after AGI
50 The human skills that get more valuable
19 What's underhyped in AI right now

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Google DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis says we’re in the ‘foothills of the singularity’ I sat down with...

Rowan Cheung (@rowancheung) — Tue, 26 May 2026 16:16:09 GMT

Google DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis says we’re in the ‘foothills of the singularity’

I sat down with him to talk about what that means, curing every disease, and human meaning post-AGI:

00 Intro
45 What Demis is most excited about at I/O
46 Have AGI timelines shifted?
30 What's still missing before AGI
50 AI curing every disease 
19 What diseases get cured first?
50 What Demis works on after AGI
48 Human meaning after AGI
50 The human skills that get more valuable
19 What's underhyped in AI right now

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Full interview with Sundar is now live! https://t.co/JRcqOxCZo6

Rowan Cheung (@rowancheung) — Thu, 21 May 2026 17:42:01 GMT

Full interview with Sundar is now live! x.com/rowancheung/st…

Rowan Cheung@rowancheung

Google just revealed Omni, personalized cross-device intelligence, and Spark agents at I/O 2025.

I sat down with CEO Sundar Pichai to figure out what comes next:

46 Omni: "Nano Banana for video"
59 The future of YouTube
04 Advice for AI skeptics
33 Why your mom should switch to Gemini
13 Google's vision for personalized intelligence
02 What AI looks like in 3 years 
08 What tasks AI agents won't replace
58 Sundar's advice for an 18-year-old
33 Would Sundar still go to college today?

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Google just revealed Omni, personalized cross-device intelligence, and Spark agents at I/O 2025. I ...

Rowan Cheung (@rowancheung) — Thu, 21 May 2026 15:58:57 GMT

Google just revealed Omni, personalized cross-device intelligence, and Spark agents at I/O 2025.

I sat down with CEO Sundar Pichai to figure out what comes next:

46 Omni: "Nano Banana for video"
59 The future of YouTube
04 Advice for AI skeptics
33 Why your mom should switch to Gemini
13 Google's vision for personalized intelligence
02 What AI looks like in 3 years 
08 What tasks AI agents won't replace
58 Sundar's advice for an 18-year-old
33 Would Sundar still go to college today?

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Behind the scenes with Sundar Pichai and Demis Hassabis, two of the most important people in AI We ...

Rowan Cheung (@rowancheung) — Wed, 20 May 2026 17:37:36 GMT

Behind the scenes with Sundar Pichai and Demis Hassabis, two of the most important people in AI

We covered timelines to curing every disease, AGI bottlenecks, democratizing AI healthcare, and the future of AI-driven media (ft. Omni)

Can't wait to share!

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Source via Meta: https://t.co/l22aISUzys I break down stories like this every day in my free newsle...

Rowan Cheung (@rowancheung) — Mon, 04 May 2026 15:18:21 GMT

Source via Meta: about.fb.com/news/2026/04/p…

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Meta is planning to power its AI data centers with solar energy beamed from space. If it works, sol...

Rowan Cheung (@rowancheung) — Mon, 04 May 2026 15:18:18 GMT

Meta is planning to power its AI data centers with solar energy beamed from space.

If it works, solar farms could produce power 24/7 without batteries or backup generators.

The company behind it all is Overview Energy -- they want to launch 1,000 satellites into orbit, 22,000 miles above the equator, where sunlight is constant.

For context, Meta's data centers used over 18,000 gigawatt-hours of electricity last year. Enough to power 1.7 million American homes for a year.

Each satellite collects solar energy, converts it into a wide beam of near-infrared light, and aims it at existing solar farms on the ground.

The farms convert the light into electricity, just like they do with sunlight.

Unlike high-power lasers or microwave beams, this infrared light is safe enough to stare directly into.

Solar farms normally sit idle at night, so this system fixes that... from space. Really fascinating tech.

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By the way, if you want to work with me but don't think the above role is the perfect fit, I'm als...

Rowan Cheung (@rowancheung) — Thu, 30 Apr 2026 15:29:43 GMT

By the way, if you want to work with me but don't think the above role is the *perfect* fit, I'm also hiring 4 other roles:

> Head of Content
> Head of Sales
> Ad Creative Strategist
> Branded Content Editor

Check it out: https://t.co/9p7JAwm06i

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More about the role + application link: https://t.co/Ce1gYepsZl

Rowan Cheung (@rowancheung) — Thu, 30 Apr 2026 15:26:06 GMT

More about the role + application link: jobs.therundown.ai/jobs/444554950…

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I'm hiring someone to help me build the "Reddit for AI use cases." People are dying to hear from RE...

Rowan Cheung (@rowancheung) — Thu, 30 Apr 2026 15:24:57 GMT

I'm hiring someone to help me build the "Reddit for AI use cases."

People are dying to hear from REAL people actually doing REAL work with AI.

They don't care about how execs, influencers, or hype chasers are 'using AI'.

A few months ago, we launched our Community Use Cases feature in The Rundown: At the end of every newsletter, we showcase how a reader is using AI to work smarter, save time, or make life easier.

We didn't think much of it, just a cool way to highlight the community.

Well, it became one of the biggest hits the newsletter has ever had.

Now I get daily messages asking us to expand it... so we are.

The plan: build Reddit for AI use cases.

We have the most active and engaged AI-interested audience in the world, with millions of daily readers. Your job is to figure out how they're actually using AI, then incentivize them to share it.

Basically, the friend everyone texts when they hear about a new AI thing... but you're building an entire community of them.

Here's what I'm looking for:

> Someone who thrives in scrappy environments with great communication skills
> Has built online communities at scale before
> Energized by the idea of interviewing thousands of real people about how AI is actually changing their work

This is NOT an easy role. You'll interview thousands of people, gather data points, and dig into their real AI struggles. 

If that sounds fun rather than overwhelming, you're probably who I'm looking for.

Link below to apply!

Rowan Cheung@rowancheung

I'm HIRING 5 more people to help me build the future of AI media.

The Rundown is closing in on 3M active readers, and the demand is far outpacing what we can handle.

$2,000 referral bonus if you help us find someone we hire full-time.

Open roles:

> Head of Content -- lead the editorial team that reaches millions every day
> Head of Sales -- run a scrappy sales team and revenue strategy across our media properties
> Community Lead -- turn our 3M+ readership into the "Reddit for AI use cases"
> Ad Creative Strategist -- research and ship ad creatives that hook the next million AI-curious readers
> Branded Content Editor -- turn brands into stories our readers actually want to read

What we're looking for among all roles:

> Deep AI curiosity (you've already replaced part of your workflow with agents)
> Unreasonably biased toward action
> Taste sharp enough to spot great work (and AI slop)

All roles are fully remote. Link below to apply!

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Research paper: https://t.co/7owhoOMXvm Original video : https://t.co/8REsqmOUW4 I break down stor...

Rowan Cheung (@rowancheung) — Wed, 29 Apr 2026 15:16:18 GMT

Research paper: pnas.org/doi/abs/10.107…

Original video : youtube.com/watch?v=jli0jP…

I break down stories like this every day in my free newsletter. Keep up with the latest in AI/Robotics in 5 min a day: therundown.ai/subscribe

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Scientists just built a robot smaller than the width of a human hair (!) It has no motor, no comput...

Rowan Cheung (@rowancheung) — Wed, 29 Apr 2026 15:16:15 GMT

Scientists just built a robot smaller than the width of a human hair (!)

It has no motor, no computer and no battery

It's a 3D-printed, flexible chain of microscopic segments that, after being hit with an electric field, started swimming through liquid like a snake.

Try to block its path? It twists around the obstacle, as if it can sense what's in its way.

But the strangest thing about it all is that the behavior isn't programmed. It emerges from the physics of the structure itself.

The entire robot is 5 micrometers long (for context: a human hair is 70).

The researchers think this could one day deliver drugs directly to tumors or infections inside the human body.

Sometimes the simplest designs produce the most lifelike behavior.

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Join us or refer the most exceptional person you know: https://t.co/NGblORJYkF

Rowan Cheung (@rowancheung) — Mon, 27 Apr 2026 14:14:34 GMT

Join us or refer the most exceptional person you know: jobs.therundown.ai/companies/the-…

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I'm HIRING 5 more people to help me build the future of AI media. The Rundown is closing in on 3M a...

Rowan Cheung (@rowancheung) — Mon, 27 Apr 2026 14:11:34 GMT

I'm HIRING 5 more people to help me build the future of AI media.

The Rundown is closing in on 3M active readers, and the demand is far outpacing what we can handle.

$2,000 referral bonus if you help us find someone we hire full-time.

Open roles:

> Head of Content -- lead the editorial team that reaches millions every day
> Head of Sales -- run a scrappy sales team and revenue strategy across our media properties
> Community Lead -- turn our 3M+ readership into the "Reddit for AI use cases"
> Ad Creative Strategist -- research and ship ad creatives that hook the next million AI-curious readers
> Branded Content Editor -- turn brands into stories our readers actually want to read

What we're looking for among all roles:

> Deep AI curiosity (you've already replaced part of your workflow with agents)
> Unreasonably biased toward action
> Taste sharp enough to spot great work (and AI slop)

All roles are fully remote. Link below to apply!

Rowan Cheung@rowancheung

I'm HIRING 7 exceptional people and paying a $2,000 referral bonus for each

We’ve bootstrapped The Rundown to $10M+ annual revenue and need to scale faster

We’re tackling one of the biggest problems of the decade: helping 1B workers turn AI into a superpower

Open roles:

-Mobile Developer
-GM, AI Univeristy
-Head of Growth
-Strategic Partnerships Lead
-Product Marketing
-Platform Designer
-Thumbnail Designer

We move faster than any company you've worked at. Competitive comp with performance-based scaling as we grow

Every role requires deep taste and AI fluency. You'll be expected to command an army of AI agents working underneath you.

Fully remote. Apply with the link below.

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Rowan Cheung (@rowancheung) — Wed, 22 Apr 2026 15:12:32 GMT

Source: news.mit.edu/2026/new-type-…

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MIT researchers just replicated human muscles with AI-controlled fibers. Inside each fiber is a sea...

Rowan Cheung (@rowancheung) — Wed, 22 Apr 2026 15:12:30 GMT

MIT researchers just replicated human muscles with AI-controlled fibers.

Inside each fiber is a sealed tube of electrically charged liquid and a tiny electric pump.

When the pump activates, one side contracts while the other relaxes, just as your biceps and triceps do when you bend your arm.

How it works:

> The pump injects electrical charge into the fluid
> This creates ions that drag the liquid along with them
> No motors, no external pumps, completely silent

Because they're fibers, they bundle together just like real muscles, scaling up force by adding more strands.

In demos, these fibers were strong enough to bend a robotic arm and curl a dumbbell... but gentle enough to shake someone's hand.

From prosthetics to exoskeletons to industrial robots, this is what happens when engineers stop building around motors and start building around biology.

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Rowan Cheung (@rowancheung) — Mon, 20 Apr 2026 15:13:35 GMT

Source: spectrum.ieee.org/boston-dynamic…

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Boston Dynamics just gave its robot dog a brain that reasons about the physical world. Google DeepM...

Rowan Cheung (@rowancheung) — Mon, 20 Apr 2026 15:13:32 GMT

Boston Dynamics just gave its robot dog a brain that reasons about the physical world.

Google DeepMind's Gemini Robotics model is now running inside Spot, the four-legged robot already deployed at thousands of facilities worldwide.

The upgrade centers on something called embodied reasoning.

Basically, instead of following rigid instructions, Spot now interprets what it sees and makes decisions on its own.

One standout example: Spot can now look at a pressure gauge, zoom in on the needle, calculate the intervals between tick marks, and deliver an accurate reading. All autonomously.

The model also introduces:

> Multi-view reasoning, combining feeds from multiple cameras to understand its environment even when objects are blocked from one angle

> Built-in success detection, so Spot knows when it's failed and decides whether to retry or move on

That last part is a key requirement for true autonomy.

Most companies building AI-powered robots are still stuck in the demo phase. Boston Dynamics is one of the few with actual paying customers... which means thousands of Spots collecting real-world data that feeds back into making the AI smarter.

That flywheel is hard to compete with.

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Research paper link: https://t.co/hU71XsNNUv I break down stories like this every day in my free ne...

Rowan Cheung (@rowancheung) — Fri, 17 Apr 2026 15:14:23 GMT

Research paper link: nature.com/articles/s4192…

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MIT engineers built an AI wristband that controls robots by reading your hand muscles. It works by ...

Rowan Cheung (@rowancheung) — Fri, 17 Apr 2026 15:14:21 GMT

MIT engineers built an AI wristband that controls robots by reading your hand muscles.

It works by using an ultrasound to capture images of the muscles and tendons in your wrist.

An AI algorithm then translates those images into the exact position of all 5 fingers, tracking 22 different ways your hand can bend, twist, and extend.

In demos, wearers directed a robotic hand to play piano just by moving their own fingers.

To put the complexity in perspective, it takes:

> 34 muscles
> 27 joints
> 100+ tendons
...Just to scroll your phone

This device captures it all from a band the size of a smartwatch.

They tested across 8 volunteers with different hand sizes, tracking everything from sign language letters to holding scissors.

The team is now collecting data from hundreds more users to train robots in surgical procedures.

Something like this could one day become the universal remote for robots and virtual worlds, and we're way closer than most people expect.

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This robot can be torn apart and still keeps moving. Northwestern researchers built modular robot l...

Rowan Cheung (@rowancheung) — Tue, 14 Apr 2026 15:12:35 GMT

This robot can be torn apart and still keeps moving.

Northwestern researchers built modular robot legs that each operate as fully independent machines:

> Own battery
> Own motor
> Own sensors
> Own brain

A single module can jump, roll, and turn on its own.

Bolt a few together and they become entirely new species of robot that can walk, flip, and sprint across outdoor terrain.

Some move like lizards, others drag themselves forward like seals.

Every behavior was learned in simulation and transferred to the real world with zero fine-tuning.

The goal is to mass-produce these parts so anyone can snap them together like Lego bricks, building robots on-site in disaster zones or hazardous environments, customized to whatever the situation needs.

Wild!

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Microsoft's AI can now detect cancer from a $10 tissue sample. For context, every time tumor cells ...

Rowan Cheung (@rowancheung) — Mon, 13 Apr 2026 15:13:35 GMT

Microsoft's AI can now detect cancer from a $10 tissue sample.

For context, every time tumor cells are tested, doctors create a basic microscope slide to study tissue up close.

These slides show cell shapes and structures, but they can't reveal which immune cells are actually fighting the cancer.

That deeper picture is critical for knowing if a patient will respond to immunotherapy... But the advanced imaging needed costs THOUSANDS.

So Microsoft built GigaTIME -- an AI system that generates advanced imaging from the cheap slides hospitals already collect.

The system was trained on 40 million cancer cells, then applied to over 14,000 patients across 51 hospitals spanning 24 cancer types.

The AI found over 1,200 hidden connections between immune cell behavior and tumor growth that researchers couldn't find before... because the data simply didn't exist at this scale.

When validated against 10,000 additional patients from a completely separate database, the results held up.

The model is now open source, so any hospital worldwide can use it on samples they already have.

I think this is one of the most impactful AI papers I've seen this year!

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Rowan Cheung (@rowancheung) — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 15:17:30 GMT

Meta's new AI can predict your brain better than a brain scan.

TRIBE v2 is a foundation model trained on 1,000+ hours of brain imaging data from 720 people.

You feed it a video, sound clip, or text, and it predicts:

> Which brain regions light up
> How strongly
> And in what order

When tested on people it had never seen, the model's predictions were actually more accurate than most real brain scans (which get distorted by heartbeats, breathing, and movement).

Researchers then replicated decades of classic neuroscience experiments entirely inside the software.

No scanner, no human subjects.

The model correctly identified the brain's face recognition center, language network, and emotional processing regions on its own.

But look at what else Meta has been building:

> Ray-Ban smart glasses that see and hear what you do
> A wristband that reads nerve signals
> And now a model that predicts how your brain responds to any piece of content

There's no evidence these are all connected... but Meta now has a complete picture of attention, from the stimulus to the neural response.

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Halter now manages nearly 650,000 cows, and is currently raising at a $2B valuation. Half the world...

Rowan Cheung (@rowancheung) — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 15:16:58 GMT

Halter now manages nearly 650,000 cows, and is currently raising at a $2B valuation.

Half the world's habitable land is farmland. This is AI being applied to one of the oldest industries on earth and I think we're going to see a lot more of this.

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An AI cow collar just created a billion-dollar company. Farmers draw boundaries on a phone app, and...

Rowan Cheung (@rowancheung) — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 15:16:37 GMT

An AI cow collar just created a billion-dollar company.

Farmers draw boundaries on a phone app, and the collars guide cows using sound and vibration.

It works by collecting over 6,000 data points per min, feeding ML models that track grazing patterns, predict disease, and detect peak breeding times.

And they call it the "Cowgorithm."

It saves farmers 20-40 hours of labor per week and has already replaced over 800,000 km of physical fencing.

The collars are also solar-powered and built with bulletproof glass to survive daily wear from 1,000-pound animals.

The founder grew up on a New Zealand dairy farm where his parents started work at 4am and often worked 100+ hours a week. He built Halter to solve the problems he watched growing up.

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Researchers at Netflix just released a new AI model It erases objects from video, then rewrites the...

Rowan Cheung (@rowancheung) — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 13:26:23 GMT

Researchers at Netflix just released a new AI model

It erases objects from video, then rewrites the physics of the entire scene as if that object never existed

It's called VOID (Video Object and Interaction Deletion)

Current inpainting tools simply paint over the gap left by an object's removal, but they ignore the chain of events that would inevitably follow.

For example:
> If you remove a car from a crash scene with a basic AI tool, and the other car still looks like it collides with something invisible
> But VOID understands that once the car is gone, the other one would keep moving forward without impact

The output is still rough and limited to a few seconds of footage, but with Netflix's entire content library to train on... this tech has a very clear path to improve.

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