Breaking news, AGI updates, and analysis of the intelligence revolution.
📰 News The new release targets the least glamorous part of robotics development — getting the plumbing to work — and hands it to software agents. Pick-and-place is now a standalone, agent-ready skill.
📰 News Hyundai's Atlas humanoids now train permanently on real car parts at the Metaplant — a 'robot behavior factory' that produces training data at industrial scale, with 25,000 units planned and a ten-times-larger facility coming in 2027.
📰 News Anthropic's new flagship matches Fable 5.1 on most benchmarks at a fraction of the cost, beats GPT-6 Astra on agentic coding at a fifth of the price, and records the best alignment scores the lab has measured — all two months after its last major release.
📰 News Twenty-two countries want a global body that can verify frontier AI claims and convene states when capability thresholds are crossed. The two countries building most frontier AI didn't sign.
📰 News A government is suing an AI company for what its chatbot saw and didn't report — the first time a state has taken an AI lab to court over a failure to warn.
📰 News The most conservative automaker in the world just put the largest humanoid number on record: 400,000 robots, 60 plants, ¥1 trillion a year. Reuters says the figure includes conventional machines. Toyota doesn't mind.
📰 News The world's first mass-produced humanoid companion robot is knocking on doors in China — 13,361 deposits paid, prices from about NZ$31,000, and a familiar gap between the demo and the machine.
📰 News Amazon says Muse browses unidentified and stores customer credentials. Meta says the agent never sees passwords. The two companies are also business partners, which makes the standoff sharper.
📰 News Grok 4.7 tops EEBench and the Harvey legal benchmark and nearly doubles Grok 4.6's Terminal-Bench score, but Fable 5.1 Max still leads software engineering. The price stays at $2/$6 per million tokens.
📰 News The world's two biggest AI powers are negotiating how to tell each other when something breaks — the first structure either has accepted for sharing AI failure information across the divide.
📰 News Jensen Huang's intervention puts the world's most valuable company squarely against its biggest customers on AI risk — with $5.3 trillion of chip demand riding on the answer.
📰 News The Chinese automaker joins XPeng and Chery-backed Aimoga in the humanoid production race — and its robot dog will reach customers even sooner, starting at car dealerships.