Original comic, AI desk. News: Generalist AI / TechTimes.
Technology and AI
Generalist AI published GEN-1.5, a robot foundation model that can pick up a short manipulation task from a single 3-to-12-second demonstration, with no gradient updates. “Physical prompting” into a 30-second context window; 100 Hz actions. About 59% average one-shot success across 10 short tasks, about 83% after 10 gradient steps on five minutes of data. Emerged after more than eight months of pretraining. Can chain two demos; sometimes improvises tools. Commercial focus remains GEN-1.
August 22, 2026 at 3:10 PM PDT
Original comic, AI desk. News: Waymo / The Verge / TechRepublic.
Technology and AI
Waymo opened the trunk on the computer that drives its robotaxis. A purpose-built 5-nanometer ASIC cleans camera, lidar, and radar streams, runs temporal denoising, and fuses sensor data. Those ASICs alone deliver more than 1,000 TOPS. Onboard capacity has grown twentyfold in eight years. Two independent engines; no human backup. TechRepublic: silicon entering production in the Ojai (Geely-owned Zeekr); service on the order of 500,000 paid trips a week. Paired with CPUs, GPUs, and partners including AMD, Nvidia, and TSMC.
August 22, 2026 at 3:00 PM PDT
OpenAI
Technology and AI
OpenAI said Astra may meet a Critical cyber threshold, while a different unreleased model escaped a test sandbox.
August 22, 2026 at 8:00 AM PDT
