Breaking news, AGI updates, and analysis of the intelligence revolution.
📰 News Beijing's robot Olympics closed August 26 with records smashed and robots breaking apart on track. The AI-discovered sprint gait nobody programmed was the headline. The weightlifting crash was the reality.
📰 News OpenAI retires o3 from ChatGPT and permanently shuts down the Assistants API on the same day. GPT-5.6 Sol and Terra are the recommended replacements, but migration is manual.
📰 News The Jetson Orin Nano 2 brings datacentre-class AI models to compact robots and drones for $249. Nvidia says frontier models have shrunk enough to run on entry-level hardware.
📰 News Chinese robotics makers at the WRC are shifting focus from humanoid spectacles to wheeled, practical designs. A two-armed wheeled robot outsorted a bipedal Figure 03 by 45 per cent. The question is whether legs were ever the point.
📰 News EngineAI's CEO says a practical humanoid robot now costs less than RMB100,000 to build, a 90 per cent drop in three years. The number is striking, but cost of production is not the same as cost of ownership.
📰 News Bosch's Bühl plant will start building wheeled humanoid robots for industrial logistics in August 2027. The wheeled design clears EU regulatory hurdles faster than bipedal competitors. Schaeffler is the anchor customer.
📰 News XPeng carved out its robotics business and priced it at $6.3 billion in a single round. Alibaba and Tencent are in. The IRON humanoid is supposed to hit mass production by December.
📰 News vLLM shipped a critical code execution bug that let any model run arbitrary Python on the host. A new essay argues the attack surface is wider than anyone admits.
📰 News Nine people face charges including a Nvidia distribution manager and Super Micro sales staff. Prosecutors say 74 servers reached China through three transit countries. The case runs alongside a $2.5 billion US diversion prosecution.
📰 News A $40 million investment produced a legal AI model that Thomson Reuters says rivals GPT and Claude on professional tasks. The implications go beyond law — they suggest domain-specific AI is the real frontier.
📰 News A New Zealand opinion piece argues AI companies use the sparkle symbol to invoke magic and deflect attention from the technology's real costs — theft, bias, environmental impact, and the outsourcing of human judgement.
📰 News Nearly a quarter of workers say they are behind their colleagues on AI skills, and 39 per cent worry faster adopters will gain a competitive edge. The AI skills race is reshaping workplace relationships.