A robot is beating human pros at table tennis. Its maker calls it a milestone for machines

A paddle-wielding robot is so adept at playing table tennis that it is posing a tough challenge to elite human players and ...

Ping-pong robot Ace makes history by beating top-level human players

An autonomous robot ping-pong player dubbed Ace has achieved a milestone for AI and robotics in Tokyo by competing against ...
Interesting Engineering

Sony AI’s Project Ace autonomous robot becomes first to beat pro table tennis players

Project Ace brings AI into the physical world, defeating elite players with advanced sensors, spin tracking, and ...
Live Science

Advanced AI-powered table-tennis-playing robot can match up to the professionals — watch it in action

Watch awkward Chinese humanoid robot lay it all down on the dance floor; Acing this new AI exam — which its creators say is ...
San Diego Union-Tribune

She’d love to see more women play chess, and maybe join her for a game over a beer

Julia Gale is one of the co-founders of Beers by the Bay Chess & Social, a social club started with co-founders Mark Laturno and Aidan Ryan in 2024. It works just like the name says—they meet up each ...
The New York Times

Netflix’s Chess Mates: What we learned from the documentary on the scandal that rocked chess

Magnus Carlsen (left) and Hans Niemann at the FIDE World Rapid and Blitz Championships in 2025, playing each other again three years after the scandal involving the pair Mahmud Hams/AFP via Getty ...
PC Gamer

Warframe community director says 'nothing in our games will be AI-generated, ever'

AI Google executive responsible for AI has a solution for the game industry's problems, and you're not going to believe this but it's AI Gaming Industry Elon Musk is more at risk of losing his job to ...
TechSpot

AI has mastered chess, so humans are changing the rules of the game

The chess program Stockfish can crush Norwegian chess grandmaster Magnus Carlsen, who is largely considered the greatest player in history. However, it cannot replace him. These super-strong platforms ...
Hosted on MSN

Watch this chess game end in 26 moves

What looked like a normal chess game did not stay balanced for long. She took control early, kept the pressure building, and finished the game before he ever had time to recover. By move 26, the ...
Kotaku

AI-Generated Copycat Rushed Out Before The Original Indie Game As ‘Revenge’

An AI-generated copycat version of a work-in-progress indie game has generated a justifiable wave of outrage in Japan, as the ease with which the plagiarized game was generated has developers ...
Business Insider

'Fortnite' maker Epic Games is laying off over 1,000 employees. Its CEO says AI isn't to blame.

Epic Games announced it would cut over 1,000 employees, or about 20% of its workforce. CEO Tim Sweeney says the layoffs aren't AI-driven and that the company still needs software developers. He cited ...
IGN

Face the music.

Capcom has clarified its current stance on generative AI in its videogames. The major Japanese publisher and developer behind popular series like Resident Evil, Street Fighter, and Monster Hunter has ...