Audiophile focused digital audio equipment company Olive today announced a new addition to their product line up. The new Musica wireless music center will be available in October for $1,099.
The Musica is designed to record, tag and archive a user’s CDs to the device’s 160GB hard drive, which can hold up to 40,000 songs. It is designed to fit into a home entertainment system, burn and copy music CDs, record music from analog sources, access music across a network, stream Internet radio and transfer music to an iPod.
This device follows up on the success of Olive’s Symphony classical music player.
“The introduction of the Symphony provided valuable feedback from a community that shares our passion for music.” said Oliver Bergmann, Ph.D., Chief Executive Officer and President of Olive Media Products, Inc. “The Musica realizes some of these ideas, and adds unique features to address open niche markets.”
San Francisco startup Dimensional advertised for people to walk robot dogs through city streets. The New York Times reported that the job could include carrying a roughly 33-pound robot back to the office if it overheated. A lift home is an awkward requirement for a labor-saving machine.
Keeping the hardware running is only one challenge. Anthropic's robotics tests found that language models mostly failed when controlling joints directly, but did better when directing trained controllers. Giving an AI agent a body doesn't teach it to handle ordinary household objects.
Soon, a mattress protector may be more than a bed cover. Australian medtech company Sleeptite and researchers at RMIT University have received a US patent for FlexiSense, a smart bedding technology that tracks body position and posture to help caregivers identify when older residents may be at risk of falling.
The technology is being developed for Sleeptite’s in-bed monitoring system, REMi, and was recently on display at The MedTech Conference in Boston. A peer-reviewed study in Flexible and Printed Electronics says the sensors can also be made at scale without sacrificing performance or durability.
AI companies spend enormous amounts of time convincing us their technology is safe and secure. But what happens when those same companies become targets of increasingly sophisticated AI-powered attacks? Anthropic, the company behind Claude, is now facing that question. According to a Washington Post report, cybersecurity startup Cathedral discovered vulnerabilities that let its researchers access sensitive information in Anthropic's internal systems.
The researchers used AI agents to identify potential entry points in less than 12 hours. Interestingly, they didn't need to crack Claude itself. Instead, they exploited weaknesses in third-party business applications that Anthropic uses for everyday operations. Anthropic's security testing program disclosed the findings, which allows outside researchers to identify and report vulnerabilities.