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Mark Kowalski has covered tech since the 90s. Robotics is his third vertical. He still prefers email to Slack.
Everyone's framing this as a Windows headache, but the real story is what it means for the billion-plus devices that nobody's going to patch in time.
Mark Kowalski · 25 Jun · 6 min
HumanoidsThe headlines are celebrating a $2.5B humanoid robotics deal. I'd pump the brakes a little.
Mark Kowalski · 25 Jun · 6 min
AI ModelsThe Korean memory giant wants to list on a US exchange and pull in $29.4 billion to feed AI chip demand. It's a massive bet, and the timing raises some questions.
Mark Kowalski · 25 Jun · 5 min
AI ModelsA $1.5 billion raise for AI infrastructure and OpenAI's first custom silicon in the same week. If you've watched tech long enough, you know exactly where this is heading.
Mark Kowalski · 24 Jun · 6 min
Automation is accelerating through apparel supply chains just as labor conditions are already deteriorating. That combination should worry more people than it does.
Mark Kowalski · 24 Jun · 5 min
MGX's monster fund is one of the biggest dedicated AI investment vehicles ever assembled. Whether it's smart money or sovereign FOMO is a genuinely open question.
Mark Kowalski · 24 Jun · 7 min
WeChat's new AI assistant isn't really about AI. It's about ecosystem lock-in, and I've seen this movie before.
Mark Kowalski · 24 Jun · 6 min
The Air 3S discount is real, but the urgency behind it has less to do with Amazon's sale and more to do with where DJI hardware might be headed.
Mark Kowalski · 23 Jun · 6 min
Anthropic just dropped Claude Tag, an always-on AI presence inside Slack. The pitch is productivity. The real play is something bigger, and older.
Mark Kowalski · 23 Jun · 6 min
Amazon pulled Prime Day forward into June this year, and analysts are projecting record online spending of $26.3 billion. Whether that's confidence or desperation depends on who you ask.
Mark Kowalski · 22 Jun · 5 min
Researchers are patching the 'trajectory scoring gap' in sidewalk robots with VLMs and human attention modeling. The ideas are clever. The caveats are real.
Mark Kowalski · 20 Jun · 6 min
The ad-supported streaming wars just got a lot more expensive. Fox's blockbuster Roku deal is either a masterstroke or a very pricey panic move, depending on who you ask.
Mark Kowalski · 20 Jun · 7 min
Procurement is the easy headline. Actually building enough drones, fast enough, with American parts, is the problem nobody's solved yet.
Mark Kowalski · 20 Jun · 7 min
Three Amazon engineers testified at Seattle City Council. A week later, they were called into meetings with 'Employee Relations.' Draw your own conclusions.
Mark Kowalski · 20 Jun · 7 min
Trump says Intel and Apple will design and produce semiconductors domestically. Markets loved it. The details, as usual, are thin.
Mark Kowalski · 19 Jun · 6 min
Three new robotics papers suggest we're past the proof-of-concept phase for humanoid loco-manipulation, and the numbers are starting to back that up.
Mark Kowalski · 19 Jun · 7 min
Rare, dangerous edge cases have always been the Achilles' heel of autonomous driving. Researchers think synthesized near-misses and smarter fallback policies might finally change that.
Mark Kowalski · 19 Jun · 7 min
Google just launched its first new smart speaker since 2019, and it's betting everything on Gemini. I've seen this movie before.
Mark Kowalski · 18 Jun · 6 min
A pair of fresh arXiv papers probe whether the AI powering today's robots actually understands anything, or whether we're just very good at papering over the gaps.
Mark Kowalski · 18 Jun · 7 min
A wave of academic work on robot manipulation and autonomous driving is tackling the same stubborn problem: getting AI-controlled machines to move smoothly, safely, and without freezing up when something goes wrong.
Mark Kowalski · 18 Jun · 6 min
Commerce Secretary Lutnick's letter to Anthropic isn't just a regulatory footnote. It's the moment Washington decided it owns the export question for frontier AI.
Mark Kowalski · 18 Jun · 7 min
DJI just launched a signal-boosting ground station that could finally make long-range drone ops reliable. Whether it delivers is another question.
Mark Kowalski · 18 Jun · 6 min
Two new papers tackle the problem of getting humanoid robots to gesture naturally during speech. It's a genuinely hard problem, and the solutions are more clever than the demos let on.
Mark Kowalski · 18 Jun · 6 min
Days after going public, Elon Musk's rocket company is dropping $60 billion on an AI coding tool. I've seen expensive acquisition bets before. This one's different in scale, if not in spirit.
Mark Kowalski · 17 Jun · 5 min
