Amazon’s Ring video doorbells are beginning to do something that, until recently, felt like science fiction: recognize the people who walk up to your front door.  The company is now rolling out an AI powered facial recognition feature called “Familiar Faces” to Ring device owners in the United States, after first announcing it in September (TechCrunch). The promise is convenience and better home awareness, but the rollout is already triggering loud concerns about privacy, su

Nvidia is accelerating its push into what it calls physical AI by unveiling new open AI models and developer tools designed to advance autonomous driving and robotics research.  The centerpiece of this launch is Alpamayo R1, an open reasoning vision language model that the company describes as the first action-oriented model tailored specifically for autonomous driving. By combining visual perception with language-based reasoning, Alpamayo R1 allows vehicles to interpret the

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