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Sarah Williams covers humanoids and embodied AI. Former startup founder, switched to journalism because she wanted to ask harder questions.
AI ModelsChipmakers swung wildly this week, from a Tuesday 'chip-wreck' to a Micron-led surge after hours. What's actually going on with AI's hardware backbone?
Sarah Williams · 26 Jun · 5 min
AI ModelsThe original Creator Studio was shut down in 2023. Now it's back, rebuilt around an AI assistant that promises to grow your audience and reply to comments in your voice.
Sarah Williams · 26 Jun · 5 min
AI ModelsAt its annual Config conference, Figma announced coding layers, AI-generated motion graphics, and a reimagined canvas that blurs the line between design and full-stack development.
Sarah Williams · 26 Jun · 5 min
Sometimes the sources don't pan out. Here's what happened when I tried to write a humanoids story this week and ended up with Samsung deals instead.
Sarah Williams · 25 Jun · 3 min
Diffusion models are getting good at imagining robot movements, but 'imaginable' and 'physically possible' aren't the same thing. Researchers are starting to close that gap.
Sarah Williams · 25 Jun · 6 min
A batch of fresh robotics research tackles the same underlying problem from different angles: robots that can see but don't really understand where things are.
Sarah Williams · 25 Jun · 7 min
Memory chips aren't glamorous, but they're suddenly one of the most watched corners of the market — and what Micron says next could tell us a lot about where AI spending actually goes from here.
Sarah Williams · 24 Jun · 4 min
The new Section 232 tariff rules for steel and aluminum aren't just a manufacturing story. For anyone building metal-bodied robots at scale, the supply chain math just got harder.
Sarah Williams · 24 Jun · 5 min
OpenAI just unveiled its first in-house AI chip, built with Broadcom. For a company that's been entirely dependent on Nvidia, this changes things.
Sarah Williams · 24 Jun · 7 min
Valve finally has pricing for its cube-shaped console, and the number is higher than most people expected. Here's what's going on.
Sarah Williams · 23 Jun · 4 min
SpaceX's debut bond sale attracted nearly $90 billion in demand, but the debt market's enthusiasm comes with a catch: the company is expected to burn serious cash for years.
Sarah Williams · 23 Jun · 4 min
Robot vacuums are everywhere this Prime Day, but not every deal is what it looks like. A quick guide to separating the real discounts from the noise.
Sarah Williams · 23 Jun · 4 min
The billionaire chairman of Australian logistics software giant WiseTech is under scrutiny again, and this time investors appear to be running out of goodwill.
Sarah Williams · 22 Jun · 4 min
Nvidia says its Rubin liquid-cooling design has 'eliminated massive amounts of power usage and pretty much all water usage.' That's a real achievement. It's also only part of the story.
Sarah Williams · 22 Jun · 7 min
A new technique from arXiv mirrors robot demonstrations to double usable training data without collecting a single extra example, and it's simpler than it sounds.
Sarah Williams · 20 Jun · 6 min
A pair of arXiv papers tackle one of robotics' oldest headaches: getting robots to build accurate maps of the world, even when the lighting is terrible or the geometry is tricky.
Sarah Williams · 20 Jun · 8 min
The US government thinks it might have, and that's a very big deal for the future of AI hardware and anything built on top of it.
Sarah Williams · 20 Jun · 4 min
Two new papers tackle one of robotics' most stubborn problems: getting a robot to figure out its location using LiDAR, without needing to have visited the place before.
Sarah Williams · 19 Jun · 5 min
A pair of freshly released robotics datasets tackle opposite ends of the same problem: teaching humanoids what to do, and teaching them what not to do.
Sarah Williams · 19 Jun · 5 min
The defense tech startup is moving from drones to full autonomous fighters, and it raises questions about where the line between AI autonomy and human oversight actually sits.
Sarah Williams · 19 Jun · 3 min
A cluster of new research is tackling one of robotics' most stubborn problems: getting robots to actually use touch. The sim-to-real gap is the villain of the story.
Sarah Williams · 19 Jun · 7 min
Two separate AI health stories dropped this week, and together they sketch out something bigger than either one alone.
Sarah Williams · 19 Jun · 5 min
Two new studies on autonomous drones in emergency services surface a problem nobody's really solved: when something goes wrong, who's accountable?
Sarah Williams · 18 Jun · 7 min
A pair of robotics papers tackle two of the most practical blockers standing between vision-language-action models and real-world deployment: overconfidence and computational bloat.
Sarah Williams · 18 Jun · 7 min
