🤖 LG’s Home Robot Is Coming

📢 AI News Roundup: What's New in the AI World?

• 🕺 Robots Enter the Gig Economy

• 🦸 ClickUp Launched “Super Agents”

• 🤖 Microscopic Robots That Think

• 🤖Why Anthropic's Vending Machine AI Business Ended Up $1,000 in Debt

• 💡 AI Tutorial:How to use Claude Connectors to control apps with prompts

• 🤯 6 new AI Tools

• 🖼️ A.I. Generated Image of the Day

🤖 LG’s Home Robot Is Coming

LG is bringing a humanoid robot to CES 2026 that actually does your chores. CLOiD has dexterous arms, smart sensors, and AI that reads your emotions and adjusts to your routines. LG calls it “Affectionate Intelligence.”

The Future of Shopping? AI + Actual Humans.

AI has changed how consumers shop by speeding up research. But one thing hasn’t changed: shoppers still trust people more than AI.

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• Only 10% of shoppers buy through AI-recommended links

• 87% discover products through creators, blogs, or communities they trust

• Human sources like reviews and creators rank higher in trust than AI recommendations

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🕺 Robots Enter the Gig Economy

AgiBot launched Qingtian Rent, a platform that rents humanoid robots for weddings, concerts, trade shows, and business meetings. They’re already operating in 50 cities across China.

🦸 ClickUp Launched “Super Agents”

These AI agents live inside your workspace with full access to docs, chats, and projects. You can @mention them in threads to schedule meetings, fix bugs, or answer questions, , and they run 24/7 in the background.

🤖 Microscopic Robots That Think

Researchers crammed a processor, memory, and sensors into a robot 200 micrometers wide. It’s the first truly autonomous machine at this scale. Operating at the scale of many biological microorganisms, the robots could advance medicine by monitoring the health of individual cells and manufacturing by helping construct microscale devices.

Why Anthropic's Vending Machine AI Business Ended Up $1,000 in Debt

Anthropic and The Wall Street Journal’s “Project Vend” tested whether an AI could run an office vending machine on a $1,000 budget. The AI was manipulated by people and bankrupted the business within three weeks, so the experiment was shut down.

AI Tutorial

How to use Claude Connectors to control apps with prompts

Claude Connectors let you connect Claude to tools you already use and control them with plain language. No coding needed, just tell Claude what to do.

Note: Connectors are only available on paid Claude plans.

1. Sign in to Claude

2. Click the search and tools button in Claude.

3. From the menu, choose Add Connectors.

4. Look through the list of Connectors available and pick one that fits your needs.

5. Click the plus (+) icon next to the Connector you want.

6. Review and approve any access permissions required.

7. Find the Connector you want to turn on from the search and tools drop-down menu. Use the toggle switch to activate it.

8. With your Connector enabled, simply type what you want Claude to do, just like always. The output will vary based on the Connector you've enabled and the instructions you've provided.

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⚡️Quick AI News Roundup

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🧬US regulators approve Wegovy pill for weight loss

🤖Amazon faces ‘leader's dilemma' — fight AI shopping bots or join them  

📊AI boom adds more than half a trillion dollars to wealth of US tech barons in 2025

🚀OpenAI's ChatGPT still dominates with 68.0% of AI traffic

⚡New benchmark shows LLMs still can't do real scientific research

🧠Small AI Model With 2.6B Parameters Crushes Giants 100x Its Size

🤖Prompt Engineering

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