29 May 2026
ChatGPhish Vulnerability Turns ChatGPT Web Summaries Into a Phishing Surface
Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed details of a vulnerability in OpenAI ChatGPT that leverages the artificial intelligence (AI) assistant's implicit trust in Markdown links and images to trigger prompt injections and open the door to phishing attacks. The technique has been codenamed ChatGPhish by Permiso Security.
29 May 2026
Can a Robot Have too Many Legs? Can Atlas Learn Soccer's Rabona Kick?
Video Friday is your weekly selection of awesome robotics videos, collected by your friends at IEEE Spectrum robotics. We also post a weekly calendar of upcoming robotics events for the next few months. Please send us your events for inclusion.
29 May 2026
Exclusive: Microsoft is building a super app that combines coding, chat, and other Copilot AI tools
Microsoft needs to solve a nagging problem: It has various Copilot AI assistants throughout its portfolio of products, irking customers who seek a single destination.
29 May 2026
You Can Get Your Home Cleaned For Free If You Let Robots Watch
Shift will clean your home for free. The cost: data captured by a camera the cleaner wears, which will be used to train humanoid robots.
29 May 2026
Space Force’s commercial gatekeeper offers a playbook for startups seeking defense business
WASHINGTON — As investment pours into defense and space startups, the U.S. Space Force is trying to draw more of those companies into the national security market. After hundreds of startup pitches, the head of the Space Force’s commercial office offers a candid assessment of what companies get right — and wrong — when approaching government buyers.
29 May 2026
The Metaverse and its ghost towns: Why social VR apps are struggling
On June 1, 2026, at 9 p.m., the social VR platform “Rec Room” will pull the plug after ten years. A few weeks earlier, in March 2026, Meta had announced the end of “Horizon Worlds” in its current form. The company had sunk a significant portion of its double-digit billion-dollar budget into this platform to build a metaverse, including the necessary hardware. What was marketed a few years ago as…
29 May 2026
From heavy machinery to embodied AI: How Zvalley is building the operating layer for industrial robotics
Incubated by Zoomlion, a construction machinery and equipment manufacturer, Zvalley is bringing robotics, AI agents, and industrial data together through RobotOps, a platform designed to move embodied intelligence from the lab to the factory floor.
29 May 2026
Retail technology innovation of the week Catalyst Brands connects with humanoid robotics firm Figure
Retail Technology Innovation of the Week is a series brought to you by RTIH, highlighting stand out deployments, launches, and initiatives by retailers and tech suppliers. Every week, we showcase forward thinking tech plays that have impressed our Editor and the Retail Technology Innovations Report judging panel, building up to the publication of the 2026 report later this year.
29 May 2026
Microsoft to release new coding model next week: Report
Microsoft will unveil a suite of new homegrown AI models next week at its annual “Build” conference for developers in San Francisco, including a coding model to boost the usage of its GitHub Copilot tool, the Information reported on Thursday.
