📰 News Shenzhen Startup Beats Figure AI's Sorting Benchmark by 45 Per Cent
A Shenzhen startup backed by Xiaomi and Meituan beat Figure AI's parcel-sorting benchmark in a live one-hour test. The strategy: cheap grippers over fancy hands.
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📰 News Connecticut Judge Sanctions Man for Hiding AI Instructions in Court Filing
First known US case of prompt injection in a court filing. Judge Walter Spader compared the hidden AI instructions to covertly communicating with a juror, sanctioned the plaintiff, and revoked his e-filing access.
📰 News DeepSeek V4 Pro Hits General Availability — And the Cheap API Era Is Officially Over
V4 Pro 0813 went live with no launch event, no teaser campaign — just a quiet model page update. The benchmarks jumped. The pricing tiered. And the footnote says more price hikes are coming.
📰 News GLM-5.3 Found 2,436 Real Vulnerabilities by Accident — Zhipu's Post-Training Surprise
GLM-5.3 uses the same base model as GLM-5.2. Every improvement came from post-training. But the cyber capability that emerged — finding 2,436 real vulnerabilities including 1,097 critical ones — was not part of the plan.
📰 News LG and Nvidia Are Building a Humanoid Robot and an 80-MW AI Factory to Power It
LG and Nvidia signed a physical AI partnership spanning humanoid robots, an 80-MW AI factory, and autonomous vehicles. The bipedal robot arrives Q1 2027.
📰 News Otter.ai Must Face Privacy Lawsuit Over Meeting Recordings, Judge Rules
Otter.ai lost its motion to dismiss a privacy class action alleging it recorded meetings without all participants' consent. The case could reshape how every AI meeting tool operates — and who carries the consent burden.
📰 News 2,056 Humanoid Robots Are About to Compete in Beijing's Second Robot Olympics
2,056 humanoid robots from 666 teams across 16 countries will compete in 51 events over five days in Beijing. Participation quadrupled from the inaugural games.
📰 News Apple's Plan to Prove Your Photos Are Real Takes a Different Road From Everyone Else
Apple is building its own photo authentication system instead of joining the C2PA standard that OpenAI, Google, and Adobe already use. The split could make verifying real photos harder, not easier.
📰 News DeepSeek Open-Sources an Agent Runtime Where Everything Swaps — Including the Model
DeepSeek's open-source agent harness hit 33K GitHub stars in hours. The model adapter, tool registry, agent loop, and session log are all swappable plugins under MIT license.
📰 News Google's Gemini 3.7 Flash Doubles Down on Coding While Halving the Price
Gemini 3.7 Flash: DeepSWE scores jump from 49% to 65%, 1M token context, intro pricing at $0.75/1M input tokens. Google is shipping models faster than competitors can benchmark them.
📰 News How Much Does a Humanoid Robot Cost in 2026? The Price War Is Here
Hyundai's $20,000 target, Unitree's $16,000 G1, Tesla's Optimus ambition: the humanoid robot price war is real, and the gap between industrial and consumer machines is shrinking fast.
📰 News Hyundai Wants a $20,000 Humanoid Robot — And It's Leveraging 200 Suppliers to Get There
Hyundai is turning its automotive supply chain into a robotics supply chain. The $20,000 target would put Atlas in a different price bracket from every competitor except the Chinese.