🤖 Italian Startup Builds Robot with Sensor Skin

Italian startup Generative Bionics created the robot Gene.01 covered in sensor skin that tracks touch, temperature, proximity, and force. This lets it detect humans before contact and adjust movements.

Gene.01 learns by physical guidance instead of video. Holding its hand and moving it teaches the robot the right grip strength, solving a key challenge in humanoid robotics.

The robot is based on research from the Italian Institute of Technology published in Nature Machine Intelligence. It took six months to build Gene.01 from concept to a working humanoid.

Gene.01 is a platform for specialized robots with customizable AI, outer shells, and interchangeable limbs for different tasks.

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✈️ Airbus A350-1000ULR sets flight duration record

The Airbus A350-1000ULR flew nonstop for 24 hours and 24 minutes from Melbourne to Toulouse, covering nearly 17,000 kilometers.

This model is designed for ultra-long-range flights, enabling continuous travel over vast distances without stops.

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😐 Grok 4.6 Launch Set for Next Week

Elon Musk announced that Grok 4.6 will launch on August 7 with 1.5T parameters. Grok 4.7 is planned to follow just weeks later.

Around the same time, rumors surfaced about Composer 3, developed by Cursor under SpaceX. It was trained from scratch on the Colossus 2 cluster and aims to match Opus 5 and GPT-5.6 Sol quality at a fraction of the cost.

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💻 Radeon RX 9050 Returns with 4GB VRAM

ASRock listed the Radeon RX 9050 with 4GB of video memory, the first modern card with this capacity in years. It features RDNA 4 architecture, 16 compute units, and a boost clock up to 2600 MHz, but only a 64-bit memory bus and 18 GB/s bandwidth.

The 4GB VRAM is well below current AAA game recommendations, limiting play to 1080p with no future-proofing. The card appeared in a Best Buy prebuilt priced at $889, paired with 8GB DDR4 RAM, a 500GB SSD, and a Ryzen 5 5500 CPU.

Higher memory costs and component shortages force manufacturers to cut specs rather than raise prices. The 4GB card is a sign of how tight the market remains, making this low VRAM configuration acceptable again.

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📱 Honor Robot Phone Unboxed Early

A Weibo video shows the Honor Robot Phone before launch. Its robotic arm unfolds in 0.8 seconds when the lens cover slides open, with an on-screen animation, and folds flush when idle.

Honor’s phone features 360-degree stabilization via a three-axis optical system, a four-degree mechanical gimbal, a coprocessor, and AI, reaching a CIPA rating of 5.5. It has a 200MP main sensor on the gimbal, a 50MP ultrawide, and a 200MP periscope lens, color-tuned with ARRI cinema cameras.

Preorders in China need a 1000 yuan deposit and include lifetime YOYO AI SVIP, a year of free gimbal replacement, accessories, 24-month installments, and trade-in options. The price is undisclosed. The official reveal is in August.

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💶 Scramble makes investing in consumer brands simple

Scramble is a European platform that lets anyone back fast-growing consumer companies and earn from it - without the noise of stocks or daily market tracking.

Each month, users get a curated batch of companies, and investments are automatically diversified.

➡️ Founder-backed loans, disbursed in stages to reduce risk
➡️ Group A: monthly repayments, up to 12.4% annually
➡️ Group B: higher risk, up to 25% returns
➡️ Scramble co-invests up to 20% in every batch

✨ New users get €10 for signing up, plus €5 bonus for every €100 invested.

Positioned as a hands-off, lower-volatility way to grow capital, Scramble is betting on the appeal of consumer brands as a stable entry point for retail investors.

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🤖 ChatGPT Chrome extension reads tabs and pages

The ChatGPT extension for Chrome now sees open tabs and interacts with page content. You can highlight any text, right-click, and select "Ask ChatGPT" to get answers.

The sidebar opens automatically without manual setup. The built-in browser also suggests site addresses as you type, making it more intuitive and faster.

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