
The greatest invention in pet tech in recent years is the litter robot. A machine that scoops your kitties' poop so you don't have to - what else could a cat owner possibly want? How about insights into your kitty's litter box usage that could flag health issues? Sign me up. But I have two feline friends… No worries, kitty facial recognition can handle that. At least, that is the idea behind the Litter-Robot 5 Pro, the highest-end model from the OG robotic pooper scooper compa
Will Whisker release a software update addressing the cat-identification accuracy issues in the Litter-Robot 5 Pro by September 2026?
Resolves by Sep 30, 2026
A high-end robotic litter box with artificial intelligence and dual cameras promises to monitor cats' health and identify which cat is using the box through facial recognition. The device costs significantly more than lower-end models due to these AI features, but the reviewer found that the facial recognition system failed to distinguish between two cats that look very different, eventually confusing them as identical. The AI's waste identification system also repeatedly failed to accurately categorize waste, and the promised health insights from the subscription service provided no useful information. As a basic litter-scooping machine, the device works well, but the premium price for AI features is not justified by their actual performance.

google/sam is not Segment Anything. SAM here means Sovereign Agent Mesh, an Apache-2.0 networking project for autonomous AI agents. The problem it targets is concrete. Agents now run across cloud servers, on-prem datacenters, laptops, Raspberry Pis and Android devices. Letting them share tools usually means exposing internal scripts, LLM endpoints or private APIs to the public internet. SAM’s alternative is a zero-config, zero-trust P2P overlay — closer to a private VPN, but scoped to age

Starting today, AI chats in Firefox's Smart Window AI browsing mode can pull from current web info and show source links in chat responses through a partnership with Exa. Smart Window can also now automatically suggest tab groups and show visual previews of pages you previously visited when you search your browsing history using natural language. I saw a live demo that showed how the Smart Window AI could sort through selected links in your browsing history to pull up "running

One of the best things my smart home does is help me care for my pets, and security cameras are particularly useful for keeping track of my many critters. But the barrage of notifications they send often means I miss important ones. So, when Google announced its new Pet Memory feature for Gemini for Home, I thought this could be the perfect solution. Pet Memory promises to teach your Google Home smart home who your pets are, allowing connected Nest cameras to go beyond simply t
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