<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss version="2.0"><channel><title>The Frame News — AI &amp; Robotics</title><description>No clickbait, no spin, nothing misleading.</description><link>https://theframenews.org/</link><item><title>Bill Gates Warns New AI Era Will Be Among History&apos;s Most Turbulent</title><link>https://theframenews.org/en/bill-gates-turbulent-ai-era-essay/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://theframenews.org/en/bill-gates-turbulent-ai-era-essay/</guid><description>In a new essay, Gates says leaders have no plan to ease AI&apos;s disruption, and proposes taxing AI tokens and robots to help fund a stronger safety net.</description><pubDate>Wed, 16 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://theframenews.org/imagens/bill-gates-turbulent-ai-era-essay.png" length="494404" type="image/png"/></item><item><title>New MIT Algorithm Meets Every Hard Constraint in Simulated Tests</title><link>https://theframenews.org/en/hardflow-safety-critical-ai/</link><guid 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put September&apos;s Microsoft patch total between 966 and 974, including two flaws attackers were already exploiting.</description><pubDate>Wed, 09 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://theframenews.org/imagens/microsoft-972-security-patches-record.png" length="285454" type="image/png"/></item><item><title>Self-Evaluated Robot Mapping System Struggles With Outdoor Region Recognition</title><link>https://theframenews.org/en/3d-scene-graphs-field-robotics/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://theframenews.org/en/3d-scene-graphs-field-robotics/</guid><description>BYU researchers who built the Terra 3DSG system tested it themselves across five outdoor datasets, scoring just 0.359 on region recognition with no independent check.</description><pubDate>Mon, 07 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://theframenews.org/imagens/3d-scene-graphs-field-robotics.png" length="333486" type="image/png"/></item><item><title>Enovis Signs Binding Offer to Acquire eCential Robotics for €155 Million</title><link>https://theframenews.org/en/enovis-ecential-robotics-surgical-expansion/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://theframenews.org/en/enovis-ecential-robotics-surgical-expansion/</guid><description>The French surgical-robotics firm that helped build a cleared Johnson &amp; Johnson spine robot is due to join Enovis by year-end 2026.</description><pubDate>Sun, 06 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://theframenews.org/imagens/enovis-ecential-robotics-surgical-expansion.png" length="270316" type="image/png"/></item><item><title>Google&apos;s Gemini Spark Can Now Search, Edit and Organize Photos</title><link>https://theframenews.org/en/gemini-spark-google-photos-ai/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://theframenews.org/en/gemini-spark-google-photos-ai/</guid><description>The tool works only for paying Gemini AI Pro and Ultra subscribers in the US, in English, with no confirmed wider rollout date.</description><pubDate>Sun, 06 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://theframenews.org/imagens/gemini-spark-google-photos-ai.png" length="493610" type="image/png"/></item><item><title>Independent Tests Put GPT-6 Astra&apos;s Benchmark Score Far Below OpenAI&apos;s Claim</title><link>https://theframenews.org/en/gpt-6-astra-announcement/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://theframenews.org/en/gpt-6-astra-announcement/</guid><description>OpenAI marketed a 99.9% score on a reasoning test for its new model, but an independent lab measured 62.7% under neutral conditions.</description><pubDate>Sun, 06 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://theframenews.org/imagens/gpt-6-astra-announcement.png" length="360376" type="image/png"/></item><item><title>Robot.com and Sodexo Sign Seven-Year Deal on Campus Delivery</title><link>https://theframenews.org/en/robot-com-sodexo-delivery-expansion/</link><guid 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length="346330" type="image/png"/></item><item><title>Dark-Web Marketplace Sold Scans of 153 Million Driver&apos;s Licenses</title><link>https://theframenews.org/en/id-verification-breach-year-long/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://theframenews.org/en/id-verification-breach-year-long/</guid><description>Journalist Brian Krebs traced the leaked scans to identity-verification firm IDScan.net, whose scanners sit behind ID checks at Hertz, Target and FedEx.</description><pubDate>Fri, 04 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://theframenews.org/imagens/id-verification-breach-year-long.png" length="262837" type="image/png"/></item><item><title>Nvidia Agrees to Buy Hugging Face for $12.9 Billion</title><link>https://theframenews.org/en/nvidia-hugging-face-acquisition/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://theframenews.org/en/nvidia-hugging-face-acquisition/</guid><description>Nvidia&apos;s own SEC filing splits the deal into $11.9 billion in cash and up to $1 billion in 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type="image/png"/></item><item><title>Debian Adopts Resolution That Neither Bans Nor Endorses AI Code</title><link>https://theframenews.org/en/debian-ai-code-policy/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://theframenews.org/en/debian-ai-code-policy/</guid><description>Option 5 won 281 votes under Condorcet counting as Gentoo, NetBSD, OpenBSD, GCC and OpenJDK ban AI-generated code outright.</description><pubDate>Tue, 01 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://theframenews.org/imagens/debian-ai-code-policy.png" length="272921" type="image/png"/></item><item><title>Nvidia Puts $3.5 Billion Into MediaTek Bonds, Ties It to NVLink</title><link>https://theframenews.org/en/nvidia-mediatek-chip-strategy/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://theframenews.org/en/nvidia-mediatek-chip-strategy/</guid><description>The deal makes Nvidia the largest single subscriber in MediaTek&apos;s overseas bond sale and pulls the chipmaker into Nvidia&apos;s interconnect 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