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• 7 New AI Tools in Photoshop That Let You Edit Photos With Simple Prompts

  11-03-2026 22:41 via eweek.com
  Adobe is taking another major step in blending AI with creativity. The company has unveiled a new AI Assistant for Photoshop, along with updates to its Firefly Image Editor, allowing users to edit images simply by describing what they want.The announcements signal the company’s growing focus on conversational AI tools that make design work faster and easier, even for beginners.Here is a breakdown of the key takeaways from the new AI-powered features.Photoshop now has a conversational AI as
  
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• Struggling With Math? ChatGPT’s New Feature Shows Every Step

  11-03-2026 22:35 via eweek.com
  Your math teacher always said, “Show your work.” OpenAI just made ChatGPT do exactly that.OpenAI launched a new interactive visual explanations feature on Tuesday, March 10, designed to make ChatGPT more useful, especially for students struggling with math and science. Instead of receiving plain-text answers to math and science problems, users will now get dynamic visual responses that break down concepts, explain, and walk through solutions step by step.This feature goes beyond simp
  
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• Google Expands Gemini AI Across Docs, Sheets, Slides, and Drive to Speed Up Workflows

  11-03-2026 22:28 via eweek.com
  Google announced a new set of AI updates on Tuesday, embedding its Gemini assistant into Docs, Sheets, Slides, and Drive. The rollout aims to transform these apps from passive tools into “active collaborators” that can draft documents, build complex spreadsheets, and design presentations by pulling data directly from a user’s emails, chats, and files.From blank page to final draft in docsThe most significant update to Google Docs is the “Help me create” tool. I
  
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• Chinese Humanoid Robot Wins Boxing Match Against Human

  11-03-2026 21:46 via eweek.com
  Just as we thought some professions were safe from technology taking over, a humanoid robot has stepped into a boxing ring.While this might sound like science fiction, the recent match between a human reporter and the Unitree G1 robot showed just how far robotics technology has come.The fight took place during a visit to Chinese robotics company Unitree Robotics, where the company’s compact humanoid G1 robot went head-to-head with Supercar Blondie journalist Sergi Galiano. The tech demo pr
  
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• Figure’s Humanoid Robot Picks Up Toys, Wipes Surfaces in New Demo

  11-03-2026 21:34 via eweek.com
  A messy living room might frustrate most people, but for robotics engineers, it represents a serious technical challenge. Now, robotics startup Figure AI says its latest system can handle the job.The California-based company has released a new demonstration showing its humanoid robot cleaning and organizing a living room using its latest AI system, Helix 02. The demo highlights how a single neural model can guide a robot through a full-room cleanup without special programming for each action.&nb
  
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• Chrome Brings Gemini to India, New Zealand, and Canada

  11-03-2026 17:33 via eweek.com
  Chrome’s Gemini expansion is going global, with Google adding India, New Zealand, and Canada to the rollout. The tech titan is also adding support for more than 50 additional languages, giving the rollout a broader reach from the start.This strategy shows Google is treating Chrome as a major entry point for Gemini, not just another surface for AI features. With new countries and languages now in the mix, the company is widening the audience before unpacking what the browser can actually do
  
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• 9 Quadruped Robots You Can Actually Buy in 2026

  11-03-2026 17:11 via eweek.com
  Quadruped robots used to be YouTube curiosities — backflipping dogs in research labs while wheeled bots did the real work. Falling actuator prices, advanced 3D and 4D lidar, and hot-swap batteries have turned them into practical tools that utilities, refineries, builders, and public-safety teams can buy off the shelf today.Because a quadruped walks on four independently driven legs, it can tackle obstacles that stop autonomous mobile robots (AMRs): grated stairs, ankle-deep water, 40°
  
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• Meta Just Purchased Moltbook, a Social Network Run by Bots

  11-03-2026 15:00 via eweek.com
  There are few sentences on the internet more 2026 than this one: Facebook’s parent company just bought a social network for AI agents. Welcome to the era where a fun(ny?) idea between friends becomes a likely tech buyout target.Per Axios’s scoop and TechCrunch’s follow-up confirmation, Meta has acquired Moltbook, the Reddit-style social app where AI agents can post, interact, and terrify humans with the mere suggestion that they might be DMing behind our backs.If that sounds li
  
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• Mira Murati’s Startup Lands Huge Nvidia Chip Deal

  11-03-2026 14:12 via eweek.com
  For the past few months, the easiest story to tell about Mira Murati’s Thinking Machines Lab was the messy one. A new deal with Nvidia, however, paints a different picture of the company’s future plans.A cofounder left for Meta in November 2025. Then, on Jan. 14, 2026, cofounders Barret Zoph and Luke Metz left to rejoin OpenAI, along with researcher Sam Schoenholz, in a high-profile talent shake-up reported by WIRED. For a young frontier lab whose biggest asset is basically “so
  
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