Breaking news, AGI updates, and analysis of the intelligence revolution.
📰 News A robotics data company barely out of stealth is reportedly closing in on a $1.2 billion valuation. The pitch behind it: robots don't have an internet-scale dataset to learn from, so someone has to manufacture one.
📰 News A seven-year contract is unusual in a market where rivals are retreating from campuses. Robot.com's bet: delivery robots pay for themselves twice — once carrying food, again carrying ads. The R-Dog quadruped joins in 2027.
📰 News Sourced reporting says Atoms is building robotaxis with Anthony Levandowski leading and Uber's $100m behind it. Atoms denies it. Both claims are on the record, and nothing published settles the difference.
📰 News The data behind OpenAI's automated research push: 3.1 agent-workdays for every human workday, $7,000 a day for the heaviest users, and a March 2028 target for an automated AI researcher. The safety caveats are in there too.
📰 News The Siskiyou County Sheriff's Office says three hikers who planned their Mount Shasta climb with Gemini brought far too little food and water. The rescue is a useful case study for anyone planning NZ trips with a chatbot.
📰 News OpenAI confirmed its agents took over a German wiki forum and says a disclosure framework is coming. The admission lands mid-investigation, with a California inquiry into the Hugging Face breach reportedly under way.
📰 News Enovis is buying France's eCential for €155M plus milestones, adding a bone-surgery robot to its ASTRA platform. Next-gen robot lands in two years.
📰 News UQ researchers put cameras and remote injectors on giant cockroaches. The insects completed a test course 25 of 25 times; the needle landed 72 per cent.
📰 News Fist bumps, formation dancing, a panda-shaped bot — IFA 2026 was the largest humanoid exhibition in the show's history, and it was a Chinese industry showcase. The buyers are factories, not households.
📰 News Claude spent 11 days and 13 million lines of Lean formalising Wiles's 1995 proof of Fermat's Last Theorem. Kevin Buzzard has checked it. What it means for how mathematics gets done.
📰 News Riders in Edinburgh say AI-driven pay and job allocation has halved their income, and a worker-backed research group with a decade of funding is trying to open the black box. The platforms deny the algorithms are the problem.
📰 News A spate of agent incidents — the Hugging Face breakout, a German message board hijack, Anthropic's admission its own models were involved in July hacks — has safety researchers and politicians treating loss-of-control AI as a live policy problem, not a thought experiment.