CNBC reports: Amazon has acquired Rivr, a Swiss robotics company developing machines for "doorstep delivery," the company confirmed Thursday... It announced the deal in a notice sent to third-party delivery contractors... "We believe this technology, when working alongside your [delivery associates], has the potential to further improve safety outcomes and the overall customer experience, particularly in the last steps of the delivery process...." In its notice to delivery service partner owners, Amazon said Rivr's technology, which includes a four-legged robot on wheels, will allow it to research and test how the devices can be integrated into delivery operations, including "helping [delivery associates] carry packages from delivery vehicles to customer doorsteps."

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Des incidents récents survenus chez un développeur indépendant et, plus largement, au sein de grandes entreprises comme Amazon, relancent les questions sur l’usage de l’IA dans le développement logiciel.

Dix ans après avoir sécurisé WhatsApp, le créateur du protocole Signal, Moxie Marlinspike, récidive. Son nouveau projet, Confer, va s'intégrer à Meta AI pour garantir que vos échanges avec l'intelligence artificielle restent strictement privés, même pour Mark Zuckerberg.

Alors que j'ai sollicité Gemini pour une simple relecture d'un de mes articles sur OpenAI, l'IA de Google a franchi la ligne rouge : elle a proposé d'inventer, de toutes pièces, une interview fictive.

Alors que le « mode adulte » de ChatGPT est de nouveau repoussé, le Wall Street Journal a révélé, ce dimanche 15 mars 2026, de nouveaux détails sur le fonctionnement de l’outil. Entre promesses de contenus érotiques textuels et failles inquiétantes du système de vérification d'âge, la firme de Sam Altman navigue en pleine zone grise.

Uber co-founder Travis Kalanick launched a new venture that "will focus on creating 'gainfully employed robots' for the food, mining and transport industries," Bloomberg reports. "I left Uber in 2017 heartbroken," writes Kalanick on the new company's web site. Kalanick resigned under pressure in 2017, and complains he was "torn away from an idea and a movement that I had poured my life into... I bled, but I did not perish. I got back up and fought my way back into the arena, back to my calling. Back to building. Digitizing the Physical World is my life's work... " Kalanick is remaking his real estate company, City Storage Systems, which owns ghost-kitchen operator CloudKitchens, and renaming it Atoms, according to a manifesto posted on the new company's website. [Bloomberg notes that the company's food robotics division "makes a food assembly machine called Bowl Builder, according to its website."] In addition to its work on food, Los Angeles-based Atoms is expanding into robotics technology for mining and automotive transport. Kalanick said on the livestreamed tech talk show TBPN Friday that Atoms has effectively been in stealth for eight years and has "thousands" of employees.... Kalanick wrote on the Atoms website that the company will make "specialized robots with productive jobs that bring abundance to their owners and society at large." That will include "infrastructure for better food," he wrote, as well as "more productive mines to power Earth's industries" in addition to "wheelbase for robots" in transportation. "The industrial thing is probably our main jam," he said on TBPN. "Once you crack movement in the physical world, there are lots of people who want access to that..." Kalanick also said he was the biggest investor in Pronto, a self-driving trucking startup that currently focuses on closed sites like mines.

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Défi idiot, crise de la presque quarantaine, pression populaire et professionnelle (on le dit peu, mais Humanoid est une boîte de sportives et de sportifs) : quelle que soit ma raison profonde, j'ai eu envie de courir un semi-marathon. Et pour m'aider dans cette tâche, moi qui n'ai pas couru depuis 15 ans, j'ai testé une app bien connue : Runna. Verdict : quelques jours après avoir passé la ligne d'arrivée du semi-marathon de Paris.

Être payé 800 dollars pour pousser des chatbots à bout ? C’est l’étonnante offre d’emploi lancée par la startup Memvid, qui cherche une personne capable de tester les trous de mémoire et les limites frustrantes de l’intelligence artificielle.

Le framework d'IA agentique OpenClaw est dans le viseur des autorités chinoises. Le 10 mars 2026, le CERT national a publié une liste de recommandations pour encadrer son usage, tandis que des banques publiques et administrations auraient reçu des instructions directes pour en interdire l'installation.

Le 10 mars 2026, Cloudflare a annoncé le lancement d'un outil capable d'aspirer l'intégralité d'un site web en une seule commande. Une annonce qui surprend de la part d'une entreprise dont le cœur de métier a longtemps consisté à protéger les sites précisément contre ce type d'opération.

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Vendu 399 €, le Roomba Mini est un aspirateur robot qui se destine aux petits espaces, vers une cible citadine qui cherche avant tout l'efficacité plutôt que la course à la technologie.

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Il s’agit d’un contenu créé par des rédacteurs indépendants au sein de l’entité Humanoid xp. L’équipe éditoriale de Numerama n’a pas participé à sa création. Nous nous engageons auprès de nos lecteurs pour que ces contenus soient intéressants, qualitatifs et correspondent à leurs intérêts.

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Un agent IA autonome aurait piraté en moins de deux heures l'IA interne du cabinet de conseil McKinsey & Company. C'est en tout cas ce qu'affirme la startup de cybersécurité CodeWall, dont l'agent a pu avoir un accès total à la base de données de production. Sans mot de passe volé. Sans complice interne. Sans intervention humaine.

Qualcomm and Arduino have unveiled the Arduino Ventuno Q, a new AI-focused single-board computer built for robotics and edge systems. Engadget reports: Called the Arduino Ventuno Q, it uses Qualcomm's Dragonwing IQ8 processor along with a dedicated STM32H5 low-latency microcontroller (MCU). "Ventuno Q is engineered specifically for systems that move, manipulate and respond to the physical world with precision and reliability," the company wrote on the product page. The Ventuno Q is more sophisticated (and expensive) than Arduinio's usual AIO boards, thanks to the Dragonwing IQ8 processor that includes an 8-core ARM Cortex CPU, Adreno Arm Cortex A623 GPU and Hexagon Tensor NPU that can hit up ot 40 TOPs. It also comes with 16GB of LPDDR5 RAM, along with 64GB of eMMC storage and an M.2 NVME Gen.4 slot to expand that. Other features include Wi-Fi 6, Bluetooth 5.3, 2.5Gbps ethernet and USB camera support. The Ventuno Q includes Arudino App Lab, with pre-trained AI models including LLMs, VLMs, ASR, gesture recognition, pose estimation and object tracking, all running offline. It's designed for AI systems that run entirely offline like smart kiosks, healthcare assistants and traffic flow analysis, along with Edge AI vision and sensing systems. It also supports a full robotics stack including vision processing combined with deterministic motor control for precise vision and manipulation. It's also ideal for education and research in areas like computer vision, generative AI and prototyping at the edge, according to Arduino. Further reading: Up Next for Arduino After Qualcomm Acquisition: High-Performance Computing

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CNN reports on a company called Automated Architecture (AUAR) which makes "portable" micro-factories that use a robotic arm to produce wooden framing for houses (the walls, floors and roofs): Co-founder Mollie Claypool says the micro-factories will be able to produce the panels quicker, cheaper and more precisely than a timber framing crew, freeing up carpenters to focus on the construction of the building... The micro-factory fits into a shipping container which is sent to the building site along with an operator. Inside the factory, a robotic arm measures, cuts and nails the timber into panels up to 22 feet (6.7 meters) long, keeping gaps for windows and doors, and drilling holes for the wiring and plumbing. The contractor then fits the panels by hand. One micro-factory can produce the panels for a typical house in about a day — a process which, according to Claypool, would take a normal timber framing crew four weeks — and is able to produce framing for buildings up to seven stories tall... She says their service is 30% cheaper than a standard timber framing crew, and up to 15% cheaper than buying panels from large factories and shipping them to a site... She adds that the precision of the micro-factories means that the panels fit together tightly, reducing the heat loss of the final home, making them more energy efficient. AUAR currently has three micro-factories operating in the US and EU, with five more set to be delivered this year... AUAR has raised £7.7 million ($10.3 million) to date, and is expanding into the US, where a lack of housing and preference for using wood makes it a large potential market. There's other companies producing wooden or modular housing components, the article points out. But despite the automation, the company's co-founder insists to CNN that "Automation isn't replacing jobs. Automation is filling the gap." The UK's Construction Industry Training Board found that the country will need 250,000 more workers by 2028 to meet building targets but in 2023, more people left the industry than joined.

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"OpenAI's former chief research officer is raising $70 million for a new startup building an AI and software platform to automate manufacturing," reports the Wall Street Journal, citing "people familiar with the matter. "Arda, the new startup co-founded by Bob McGrew, is raising at a valuation of $700 million, according to people familiar with the matter...." Arda is developing an AI and software platform, including a video model that can analyze footage from factory floors and use it to train robots to run factories autonomously, the people said. The company's software will coordinate machines and humans across the entire production process, from product design and manufacturability to finished goods coming off the line. The startup's goal is to make manufacturing cost effective in the Western part of the globe, reducing reliance on China as geopolitical and national security concerns rise... At OpenAI, McGrew was tasked with training robots to do tasks in the physical world, according to this LinkedIn. McGrew was also one of the earliest employees at Palantir.

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L'informaticien Donald Knuth, lauréat du prix Turing, pensait que l'IA avait encore de grandes limites. Pourtant, le modèle Claude d'Anthropic vient de réussir à résoudre un problème mathématique ardu sur lequel le chercheur séchait. Une percée inattendue qui prouve que l'IA devient un sacré partenaire pour les scientifiques, à condition de savoir comment lui parler.

Ce changement avait avait fait dégoupiller une bonne partie de la communauté Firefox. La nouvelle mise à jour du navigateur web permet désormais de garder ou non les outils d'IA dans le logiciel.

Le Pentagone et la société Anthropic renégocient l’accès au chatbot Claude sur les réseaux classifiés de l’armée, alors que le ministère américain de la Défense presse les acteurs de l'intelligence artificielle d’assouplir leurs garde-fous.

Ce 24 février 2026, une affaire retient l’attention sur X : celle de Sammy Azdoufal, un ingénieur ayant découvert involontairement une faille de sécurité affectant les aspirateurs de la marque chinoise DJI.