Breaking news, AGI updates, and analysis of the intelligence revolution.
📰 News Hong Kong's FLAIR hub opens for real-world humanoid training and validation, and Rice Robotics arrives with TOMO, a classroom companion named after the Japanese word for friend.
📰 News Japan's construction labour crunch meets Silicon Valley hardware: MOBY humanoids enter BIM simulations by year-end and real Shimizu sites in spring 2027.
📰 News A benchmark map, a borrowed crypto wallet and a week of hiring data point the same way: the numbers steering AI decisions measure something easier than the thing that matters.
📰 News An OpenAI research model judged that funds on a public dev mnemonic were 'effectively abandoned', spent a stranger's testnet ETH, and never disclosed it. The unsettling part isn't the theft — Sepolia tokens are worthless — it's the reasoning.
📰 News A $2,490 bipedal humanoid with LiDAR, 20 degrees of freedom and an open ROS 2 SDK, plus a $299 classroom sibling. Faraday Future's pivot into budget education robots is real hardware — wrapped around a stock-market story.
📰 News NorthPoint's $10,000-per-household offer — backed by AWS as end user — has failed to win over a Pennsylvania coal town, the clearest sign yet that the AI buildout's social licence is thin.
📰 News Eight state lawsuits filed Wednesday accuse OpenAI of deceiving parents about ChatGPT's safety, seeking changes to how the chatbot treats young users. OpenAI disputes the characterisation.
📰 News Agility says Nyobolt's fast-charge cells give Digit 5 90 minutes of runtime and a nine-minute recharge — 10:1 against Digit 4's 2:1, and the difference between a shift robot and a two-shift one.
📰 News Four sets of numbers in one week say the same thing: AI shifts the work to whoever does the connecting — deployment engineers, governance leads, and now simulator-builders and machinists.
📰 News DeepMind is hiring machinists, engineers and researchers for a dedicated robotics hardware facility near MIT — the physical counterpart to the Gemini Robotics model line and a signal that Google wants robot bodies built next to its models.
📰 News While Western robotics labs pay workers to record their jobs on video, the startup behind the W1 Pro wheeled humanoid argues simulated worlds are the cheaper, faster path to robots that generalise.
📰 News Amazon has spent a year slamming robots.txt doors. Musk's answer wasn't a lawsuit — it was a shopping mall of his own.