Breaking news, AGI updates, and analysis of the intelligence revolution.
📰 News The money is real and it has landed: $11 billion wired at $1.25 trillion, with the round possibly reaching $20 billion. But the distance from September's ask — $30 billion at $1.4 trillion — is the clearest measure yet of how fast the AI funding weather turned.
📰 News The Aaronson-Ambainis conjecture had resisted proof since 2008. A research lab says a system running an unreleased Anthropic model produced a complete, Lean-verified proof on day three of a run — the limit it fixes says dramatic quantum speedups need structure.
📰 News Three campuses, no licensed teachers at the front of the room, two hours of AI-paced academics a day. Boston's union president calls the model appalling; Alpha says critics who haven't visited don't understand it.
📰 News Washington state's largest school district is switching Gemini off, ending one-to-one iPads and capping screen time by grade — and the parents who demanded it want a full pause on AI next.
📰 News The first hard measurement of AI accelerating its own development: 1.9x, self-inflicted, with no bottleneck in sight.
📰 News World-model maker SpAItial more than halved its reconstruction error using Physicl's synthetic data. Now the startup has $10M to industrialise the pipeline.
📰 News A 25-person EPFL spin-out says the path to humanoids on factory floors runs through wheels, tendon-driven arms and a remote operator for the first month.
📰 News Toyota will turn a trillion-yen cost into a business; Serve is selling the robot nervous system; Korea's fabs are hiring juniors again. The physical AI economy now funds itself from real assets — and NZ's window is a hiring pipeline, not a headline.
📰 News The most pointed corporate response yet to the midterms' data-centre revolt: OpenAI's CFO says capital raising continues no matter how communities vote, while Washington signals the build-out won't stop either.
📰 News The world's largest automaker is promoting robotics from scattered engineering projects to a company-wide pillar: internal demand of 400,000 robots first, external sales from 2030 — in a market where China already ships 97% of the world's humanoids.
📰 News The Justice Department says an AI voice-cloning crew impersonated both CEOs and the law firms that were supposed to verify them — a one-stop impersonation supply chain that cost victims more than $129 million.
📰 News The first known negligence lawsuit over AI integrations on Chromebooks alleges a seventh-grader's crisis went undetected for months because AI Mode sits inside Google Search, beyond the chatbot filters schools can switch off.