Breaking news, AGI updates, and analysis of the intelligence revolution.
📰 News Bill Gates published a sweeping essay calling AI the most disruptive transition in human history. He says jobs will disappear in a decade, not generations, and governments have no plan to handle it.
📰 News Nvidia is buying Hugging Face for $12.9 billion. The deal puts the dominant AI chipmaker in charge of the platform where most open-source AI models live — and hands it a cloud business it previously walked away from.
📰 News A Shanghai-based robotics engineer told CBS News that armed humanoid robots are five to ten years away. The interview at the Beijing games raises questions about autonomous weapons that nobody has answered.
📰 News Figure AI came out of stealth with Index — 16 million crowdsourced videos from 108 countries training its humanoid robots. $15 million paid to creators, $1 billion committed for the next year.
📰 News Alibaba's Qwen team released a 125B model that activates just 6B parameters per token. It previews the Qwen4 architecture — and beats models 4x its size on coding benchmarks.
📰 News The anonymous model that topped OpenRouter last week was GLM-5.3-Flash all along. Zhipu says 100 trillion tokens a day served entirely on Chinese-made accelerators.
📰 News The C2PA standard meant to prove photos are real can be defeated on Android with a one-click root tool. Google says it won't fix the underlying issue. The EU's AI content rules just became enforceable this month.
📰 News OpenAI banned Russian ChatGPT accounts running a covert influence operation built around a fake Israeli think tank. The audience was small, but the infrastructure was elaborate — and that's what worries researchers.
📰 News Robotics funding has hit $23 billion in 2026, close to all of last year already. Humanoids alone pulled $8.6 billion. Figure AI, Agility, and Boston Dynamics are signing commercial contracts, not just running pilots.
📰 News Beijing's robot Olympics closed August 26 with records smashed and robots breaking apart on track. The AI-discovered sprint gait nobody programmed was the headline. The weightlifting crash was the reality.
📰 News OpenAI retires o3 from ChatGPT and permanently shuts down the Assistants API on the same day. GPT-5.6 Sol and Terra are the recommended replacements, but migration is manual.
📰 News The Jetson Orin Nano 2 brings datacentre-class AI models to compact robots and drones for $249. Nvidia says frontier models have shrunk enough to run on entry-level hardware.