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📰 News Anthropic's frontier red team ran open-weight models across 15 cheap Android TV boxes and got distributed inference working at 0.39 tokens per second. Models of 30B parameters and under complete most replication steps already; the lab expects a future 'awash with agents' on hardware nobody controls.
📰 News Researchers led from UC Berkeley and Oxford ran three randomised controlled trials totalling 1,222 participants. When the AI was withdrawn after ~10 minutes, assisted users solved less and quit more than people who never used it — causal evidence, in a peer-reviewed paper, that the cognitive cost arrives fast.
📰 News Microsoft's president told the BBC that every carton of milk faces more safety rules than AI, and called for emergency brakes, mandatory incident reports and outside evaluators. A former UK attorney general argued the same day that the real answer is international law.
📰 News MindOn's hour-long folding demo claims 142 garments per hour. The robot folds continuously on camera; a person keeps it fed, and that detail shapes what the number means.
📰 News A new Shanghai lab has joined the humanoid software race with a demo spanning three robot platforms. Its chosen label, 'whole-body intelligence', is the same phrase Google DeepMind used to launch Gemini Robotics 2 in July.
📰 News Software postings up 15 percent, senior roles up 71 percent, teen hires down a third, and a man who won mathematics' highest prize telling Le Monde his field is gone. The shape across every dataset is the same: the apprenticeship layer is what AI is absorbing first.
📰 News A months-old stealth startup founded by Tencent's former vision-language lead is lining up seed money from DeepSeek and Meituan's investment arm at a $400 million valuation. The deal is not final — but the strategy is legible: DeepSeek is routing its $12 billion raise into the one field where chatbot AI still loses to hardware.
📰 News 722 papers, 372 groups, one unreleased model, and a Fields Medalist who says the work woke his daughter because he was crying so much. The AI-maths backlash has moved from open letters to open grief — and one of OpenAI's own proofs has a mismatch between its human version and its machine-checkable one.
📰 News 64% of Americans say AI is developing too fast, and 39% trust neither party to manage it. The bipartisan consensus is on control and jobs — not speed.
📰 News Seventeen days after a White House memo cut Britain out of frontier AI testing, the access is back — on the same unwritten terms that let it be taken away.
📰 News A robot can complete a movement without achieving the result it intended. Aether AI's CRIS-0, shown running household tasks, treats verification as important as prediction — each task is broken into atomic stages, each checked at runtime by an executable script.
📰 News Nobody is firing, nobody is hiring, promotions are flat — while the money for AI equipment, cleanrooms and training hits records. The AI economy is pricing the machine and freezing the ladder, and New Zealand's own data rhymes.