Breaking news, AGI updates, and analysis of the intelligence revolution.
📰 News The World Development Report 2026 says developing countries could leapfrog a century of development with small AI tools. The catch: they need electricity, internet, and institutions first.
📰 News ShinyHunters claims the EY breach. IBM says 1 in 6 breaches now involve AI. The breakout time from initial access to lateral movement is 29 minutes. Maybe the answer isn't better firewalls — maybe it's fewer connections.
📰 News Google's AI leadership is being reshuffled at a moment when Gemini 3.5 Pro is months behind, morale is reportedly low, and the company just went cash flow negative for the first time.
📰 News A legacy Japanese automaker is repurposing an idle engine plant to build humanoid robots at industrial volume. The 1,000-per-month target dwarfs every pilot program currently running.
📰 News A humanoid robot named Sally was weeks from a New York classroom. Now there's a bill to make sure that never happens. The fight over AI in schools has a face, and it's made of silicone.
📰 News A 64-year-old woman drove around the Bay Area for five hours sending money to someone who had cloned her daughter's voice with AI. The Senate heard her story last week. The scale of the problem is just becoming clear.
📰 News Spirit AI's two-day reign atop the RoboArena robotics benchmark ended with a removal for benchmark manipulation. The episode raises questions about who polices physical AI rankings.
📰 News Humans get 303KB of HTML. AI crawlers get 13KB of markdown with Ally Bank FAQs embedded. TIME is the first major publisher to openly fork its content for machines.
📰 News AI data centre demand is draining the global supply of memory chips, and the bill is landing on NZ consumers. A Tauranga store owner reports a 467% RAM price increase, and the Technology Users Association says phone prices are up 30%.
📰 News Apple's latest filing escalates its trade secrets case against OpenAI, naming 11 additional former employees and seeking expedited discovery. OpenAI published internal messages it says contradict Apple's narrative.
📰 News A 97% success rate separating fabric sounds impressive. But humanoid robots in Chinese factories are still doing one task at a time — not running production lines.
📰 News Google is the Android of robotics — software for everyone's hardware. OpenAI bought Figure AI for $2.9B and is building its own robots. Two giants, two completely different approaches to physical AI.