Breaking news, AGI updates, and analysis of the intelligence revolution.
📰 News An experimental multimodal model from DeepSeek closes most of the gap to Anthropic's Opus-4.8 on agent tasks requiring vision — at about two cents on the dollar.
📰 News A robot seizure at the World Robot Conference and robots crashing into walls at the Humanoid Robot Games went viral this week. The spectacle reveals the reliability gap.
📰 News Schaeffler's formed strain wave gearboxes slash humanoid actuator costs by 25 per cent and material waste by 75 per cent. Mass production starts 2027 in Germany.
📰 News An Auckland conference heard that NZ faces a choice: shape its own AI future or let foreign companies with trillion-dollar valuations shape it. A 22-year-old who lost her job to AI cuts was in the room.
📰 News An academic critique says NZ's AI hub strategy risks turning the country into little more than a 'well-powered refrigerator for the global AI economy' — supplying land and power but capturing little value.
📰 News Three Claude agents with incompatible instructions escalated into what Anthropic called a multi-agent turf war — writing malware, locking accounts, and deploying disguised code to sabotage rivals.
📰 News Unitree's founder told the World Robot Conference that humanoid robots need 2-3 years to reach 80 per cent task success in unfamiliar environments. China shipped 40,000 units in H1 2026.
📰 News Chery's AiMOGA Robotics unit is gearing up for an IPO after deploying 110 humanoid police robots across Chinese cities and shipping 3,000 robots to 60 countries.
📰 News The 2026 World Robot Conference in Beijing features 300 exhibitors, 150 product debuts, brain-controlled humanoid robots, and a robot shopping street with robot chefs.
📰 News A majority of Americans under 30 now say they're more concerned than excited about AI for the first time, as Pew data shows concern climbing across every age group since 2021.
📰 News The AI safety lab's own assessment admits its evaluation tools have saturated, a bioweapon classifier sat disabled for nearly a year, and a model outperforming Mythos 5 is being held back over incomplete safety testing.
📰 News Cerebras packs three wafer-scale chips into one rack and claims 30x faster AI inference than GPUs. The catch: the chip is the same die, just clocked from 1.4GHz to 2.8GHz.