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UK shops are about to get a four-second line to the police, powered by your face

A facial recognition system called Facewatch, used in over 100 UK shops including Sainsbury's, is set to automatically alert police within four seconds if a flagged individual enters a store. While retailers argue this helps prevent theft and violence by identifying repeat offenders quickly, civil liberties groups raise concerns about legal and ethical implications, including potential errors and the lack of transparency around the watchlist. The technology's rapid deployment is outpacing the UK

Robotics

Alipay’s owner just open-sourced an entire robot brain in a single week

Ant Group's robotics division, Robbyant, open-sourced LingBot-World 2.0, an AI system that generates an interactive 3D game-like world capable of running continuously for an hour at high visual quality. Over the course of a week, Robbyant released several components of a comprehensive robot brain, including vision-language-action and depth perception models, trained on extensive real-world data and designed for robotics applications. These releases represent a significant contribution to the AI-

Computer Vision

Automatically redact PII in images with Amazon Nova

Amazon has developed a multi-step image redaction pipeline using its foundation model, Amazon Nova, to automatically detect and redact personally identifiable information (PII) in images. The system leverages Nova's contextual vision understanding to coordinate tools like Meta's Segment Anything Model for precise segmentation and Amazon Textract for text recognition, addressing complex cases such as partial faces, reflections, and documents within images. This approach aims to help organizations

Hardware & Chips

Apple’s next iPad Pro and MacBook Pro redesign are coming in 2027

Apple plans to release updated iPad Pro models with internal improvements and a redesigned entry-level 14-inch MacBook Pro featuring a new design language in the first half of 2027. The iPad Pro will maintain its current sizes but include faster chips and enhanced cooling, while the MacBook Pro redesign aligns with upcoming higher-end models but without a touchscreen. These updates coincide with Apple's accelerated M7 chip rollout focused on AI capabilities and occur amid ongoing supply chain, a