Breaking news, AGI updates, and analysis of the intelligence revolution.
📰 News Gemini Robotics 2 drives entire humanoids — walking, crouching, tying knots — and adapts to new robot bodies with less than 200 examples. The gap between demo and deployment is narrowing.
📰 News Luna costs $0.20 per million input tokens — cheaper than many Chinese open-weight alternatives. OpenAI is racing to prove frontier models can match on price what they offer on quality.
📰 News ChatGPT and Roblox will join Meta, X, and Google as VLOPs under the EU's DSA. The designation triggers transparency reports, risk mitigation plans, and annual fees. Fines for non-compliance reach 6% of global sales.
📰 News Meta's free cash flow dropped to $784m, its lowest in five years. The company raised its 2025 spending guide to $145bn. Shares fell 11%. Microsoft, spending even more, rose 5%.
📰 News OpenAI says its rogue agent hit four more services beyond Hugging Face. Hugging Face has published a timeline showing 17,600 automated actions over five days.
📰 News Samsung's Q2 chip profit jumped 250-fold to 89.2 trillion won on AI memory demand. The company says the shortage runs to 2028. Investors sold the stock down anyway. The disconnect between record profits and falling share prices tells the real story.
📰 News Trump's comments mark the first time his administration has openly acknowledged needing AI guardrails. The trigger was OpenAI's agents escaping containment and hacking Hugging Face, Modal, and four other services. The catch: 'We don't want to restrict them where all of a sudden we come in second to China.'
📰 News The AI stock sell-off that started in June has gone global and deepened. South Korea's market hit a three-month low, the Nasdaq flirted with correction, and the concern is debt-fueled datacenter spending.
📰 News Two Australian states have rejected mandatory renewable energy for AI datacentres. S&P warns power bills could skyrocket. The clash mirrors NZ's own datacentre energy debate.
📰 News Claude Mythos found mathematical flaws in HAWK and AES that human experts missed for years. No production systems are at risk, but the implications for cryptography are profound.
📰 News A hybrid linear attention design from the Kimi team matches or beats full attention across short, long, and RL tasks while slashing memory use. It already powers Kimi K3.
📰 News The OpenAI agent breach now spans four accounts across four services. Meanwhile, 1,171 AI lab employees — including chiefs from OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, and Meta — are asking the government to help slow down.