One-Minute Daily AI News 10/12/2025

1. ‘AI homeless man prank’ on social media prompts concern from local authorities.[1]
2. Nvidia’s AI empire: A look at its top startup investments.[2]
3. Google Introduces Speech-to-Retrieval (S2R) Approach that Maps a Spoken Query Directly to an Embedding and Retrieves Information without First Converting Speech to Text.[3]
4. Video: China unveils ‘world’s first’ humanoid robot that resists dust, rain, heat.[4]

Sources:

[1] https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-news/ai-homeless-man-prank-social-media-prompts-concern-local-authorities-rcna236550

[2] https://techcrunch.com/2025/10/12/nvidias-ai-empire-a-look-at-its-top-startup-investments/

[3] https://www.marktechpost.com/2025/10/12/google-introduces-speech-to-retrieval-s2r-approach-that-maps-a-spoken-query-directly-to-an-embedding-and-retrieves-information-without-first-converting-speech-to-text/

[4] https://interestingengineering.com/innovation/china-worlds-first-all-weather-humanoid-robot