The company revealed the bot ahead of its appearance at CES 2024, which it’s touting as an “all-around home manager and companion.”
In addition to serving as a remote monitoring system, LG says the bipedal bot can also interact with humans using voice and image recognition. Apparently, one of its abilities includes greeting users when they arrive home and playing music based on their detected mood.
A video posted to YouTube shows dashcam footage of a driver approaching the scene of the accident, which resulted in “minor” injury. You can see the Toyota Corolla’s mangled front end before getting a glimpse at the Cybertruck’s driver’s side with what appears to be less significant damage. We still haven’t gotten a look at the front of the Cybertruck, however.
Days after The New York Times sued OpenAI and Microsoft for copyright infringement, the outlet published a report detailing how media companies like Gannett, WSJ owner News Corp, and The Daily Beast parent company IAC have been in negotiations to license content to OpenAI.
Additionally, the News/Media Alliance — a trade association representing around 2,000 news outlets in the US and Canada — is also in talks with OpenAI “about coming up with a framework for a deal that would suit its members,” the Times reports. So far, Axel Springer and the Associated Press have both struck deals with the AI company.
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Over the holiday weekend, Peacock aired its first exclusive NFL game between the Buffalo Bills and Los Angeles Chargers, where it averaged about 9.9 million viewers.
That’s still a far cry from Sunday Night Football viewership, though. In October, a Sunday Night Football game between the Cowboys and 49ers averaged 26.1 million viewers when aired on both Peacock and NBC.
Disclosure: Comcast, which owns NBCUniversal, is also an investor in Vox Media, The Verge’s parent company.
