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Met Gala, Southwest Airlines, and the End of Ask Jeeves: Kris Abel's Week in Tech
Ask Jeeves shut down May 1st. Kris Abel says it was built around the same idea that AI is now executing, asking questions and getting answers, but it ran out of runway before the technology caught up to the concept.
That is the context for the rest of the week's tech news, which involved humanoid robots showing up in two very different places. At the Met Gala hotel setup for Alexander Wang, photographers waiting for models got an Agibot humanoid Android instead. It staggered out and the crowd reacted accordingly. Around the same time, an events company could not get its Agibot robot into a…
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