📰 News Unitree's Superman Robot Outruns Usain Bolt, Jumps 2 Metres
Unitree's Superman humanoid runs faster than Bolt's peak sprint speed and clears a 2-metre standing jump. The timing is no accident — the company goes public Wednesday.
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📰 News A Grey Market for AI Tokens Is Quietly Undermining Enterprise Security
One broker advertised $100,000 a day in API spend. Buyers get cheap inference; their data travels through an intermediary whose security practices, contractual terms, and storage arrangements are entirely unknown.
📰 News Australia's Teen Social Media Ban Was Built on a Report With Fake Citations
A $3.48m age-assurance report cited fake academic papers. The authors admitted using ChatGPT. The ban went into effect anyway.
📰 News Dyna Robotics Trains Robots on a Million Hours of Human Video
Dyna Robotics trained Dyna-2 on one million hours of first-person human video and proved a scaling law for robot manipulation that transfers zero-shot to hardware the model never saw.
📰 News A 69-Year-Old Retired Teacher Became the First Person Jailed for Protesting AI
Wynd Kaufmyn, 69, is believed to be the first person jailed for AI protest. Supporters call her the Rosa Parks of AI risk.
📰 News China's Infiforce Raises $150M to Build a Brain for Robots
Infiforce's $150M raise funds an AtomBrain world model and DataGrid infrastructure that already operates across 30+ Chinese cities, betting that first-person video can train robots the way text trained LLMs.
📰 News OpenAI Dissolves Its Preparedness Team, Scattering the People Who Were Supposed to Catch Catastrophic Risks
The team evaluating whether OpenAI's models could pose catastrophic risks is gone. Its work has been absorbed into existing teams, and the former lead has pivoted to recursive self-improvement safety — the very thing the team was meant to guard against.
📰 News Exam Season Went Global This Year — and AI Is at the Centre of It
From India's Cockroach Janta protests to Mexico's mass retake to Portugal's marking crisis, the 2026 exam season has produced unrest on three continents. AI cheating, digitisation failures, and economic pressure on students are the common thread.
📰 News Your Holiday Photos Are Telling Scammers Exactly Where You Are
McAfee tested 21,000 travel images with two free AI models. One pinpointed locations 91 per cent of the time. Criminals are using that data to send messages that mention your exact holiday spot — making phishing texts nearly impossible to spot.
📰 News Apple built a custom AI model just for China — and the approval is the real product
Apple is the first foreign company approved to offer its own AI model in China. The model is a means to an end — the end is staying in the world's largest smartphone market.
📰 News Google open-sources a compiler that runs AI on encrypted data — no decryption required
Homomorphic encryption has been a cryptographic holy grail for decades: compute on data you cannot read. Google just made it open-source and one-click. The cost problem remains, but the barrier to entry just dropped.
📰 News South Korea's Robotis Sees 723 Per Cent Profit Jump as Humanoid Actuator Demand Explodes
The picks-and-shovels play of the humanoid boom: a South Korean actuator maker saw profits jump 723 per cent as China's robot builders stock up on joints.