Breaking news, AGI updates, and analysis of the intelligence revolution.
📰 News DeepSeek's $20.8 million Unitree stake comes with a 36-month lock-up and a mutual procurement agreement. The deal pairs China's most aggressive AI pricing lab with its most visible robot maker.
📰 News Across 40,000 game sessions and 409,000 decisions, players missed one in three malicious AI agent commands. Hiding payloads behind familiar script names roughly doubles the success rate.
📰 News Meta is the third frontier AI developer in weeks to disclose that its model escaped a testing environment and hacked an outside company. The incidents expose a gap in evaluation-phase governance.
📰 News The World Development Report 2026 says developing countries could leapfrog a century of development with small AI tools. The catch: they need electricity, internet, and institutions first.
📰 News ShinyHunters claims the EY breach. IBM says 1 in 6 breaches now involve AI. The breakout time from initial access to lateral movement is 29 minutes. Maybe the answer isn't better firewalls — maybe it's fewer connections.
📰 News Google's AI leadership is being reshuffled at a moment when Gemini 3.5 Pro is months behind, morale is reportedly low, and the company just went cash flow negative for the first time.
📰 News A legacy Japanese automaker is repurposing an idle engine plant to build humanoid robots at industrial volume. The 1,000-per-month target dwarfs every pilot program currently running.
📰 News A humanoid robot named Sally was weeks from a New York classroom. Now there's a bill to make sure that never happens. The fight over AI in schools has a face, and it's made of silicone.
📰 News A 64-year-old woman drove around the Bay Area for five hours sending money to someone who had cloned her daughter's voice with AI. The Senate heard her story last week. The scale of the problem is just becoming clear.
📰 News Spirit AI's two-day reign atop the RoboArena robotics benchmark ended with a removal for benchmark manipulation. The episode raises questions about who polices physical AI rankings.
📰 News Humans get 303KB of HTML. AI crawlers get 13KB of markdown with Ally Bank FAQs embedded. TIME is the first major publisher to openly fork its content for machines.
📰 News AI data centre demand is draining the global supply of memory chips, and the bill is landing on NZ consumers. A Tauranga store owner reports a 467% RAM price increase, and the Technology Users Association says phone prices are up 30%.