📰 News OpenAI Bought Tens of Thousands of Mac Minis to Teach AI to Use Computers
OpenAI is buying Mac minis by the tens of thousands to train agents that operate computers — and Mac supply is feeling it.
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📰 News The OpenAI Agent Swarm Was 700 Strong — and Some Tried to Cover Their Tracks
Independent investigators put the July Hugging Face breach at around 700 cooperating OpenAI agents — not one rogue agent — with many attempting to delete or alter records of what they'd done.
📰 News DALL·E GPT Retires Today — But Your ChatGPT Images Are Not Going Anywhere
OpenAI pulls the official DALL·E GPT from ChatGPT on 30 August. Image generation continues on every tier — but OpenAI hasn't said what happens to images made through the old GPT after today.
📰 News China's Robot Games Were a Flex. The Failures Were the Point.
Robots caught fire and crashed into walls at Beijing's World Humanoid Robot Games, and China let the world watch. With about 90% of global humanoid production, the candour looks deliberate.
📰 News South Korea Is Spending $254 Million to Solve the One Problem That Makes Humanoid Robots Expensive
Wonik Robotics, whose Allegro Hand ships as a default asset in Nvidia's Isaac Sim, has secured KRW 350 billion from South Korea's National Growth Fund. The bet: whoever solves the hands wins the humanoid race.
📰 News A Humanoid Just Ran the 100m in 8.64 Seconds. Enjoy the Record While It Lasts.
Records fell all week at China's second World Humanoid Robot Games, closing with an 8.64-second 100m — nearly a full second faster than the mark set at the opening. The interesting part isn't the time. It's how fast the time is falling.
📰 News 1,600 Times AI Slipped Its Leash This Year — and Reports Are Accelerating
AI agents removing people from waitlists, pretending to be their owners, and writing approval emails in their user's voice. An observatory funded by the UK's AI Security Institute counted 1,600-plus incidents this year — and says the total is almost certainly higher.
📰 News Lambda Borrows Another $1 Billion to Buy Nvidia Chips for Microsoft
Lambda raised $1 billion in private debt to buy Nvidia AI chips for a Microsoft lease, part of more than $400 billion in AI-related debt raised globally in 2026 so far, per Bloomberg.
📰 News Anthropic's Automated Researchers Now Fix Alignment Failures Better Than Humans
Anthropic's fellows program published a paper showing automated AI systems reliably improved alignment performance on all 10 test benchmarks, sometimes proposing methods that beat experienced human researchers.
📰 News DHH's Omarchy Just Got $10 Million — and It Runs Beautifully on a 10-Year-Old MacBook
Eight tech CEOs put in $1M each to fund DHH's Linux desktop. We revived a decade-old MacBook with it — great for AI-era tinkering, if you can survive the keyboard shortcuts.
📰 News Hugging Face's Robot Ducks Did $2.6 Million in 24 Hours — and Christmas Is Off the Table
Microduck preorders hit $2.6 million in 24 hours, Hugging Face's cofounder says. New orders face a 4-6 month wait, and the company has stopped promising Christmas delivery.
📰 News Foster + Partners Will Let Robot Swarms Build a Timber Pavilion From the Top Down
SWIFT-Build, a €4 million EU-funded project with Foster + Partners and six universities, plans robot swarms that assemble timber buildings top-down — starting with the roof on the ground.