Breaking news, AGI updates, and analysis of the intelligence revolution.
📰 News Thirty years of automating mines gave Caterpillar a playbook for physical AI. Now it's applying it to construction — and spending $100 million training its own people to use it.
📰 News OpenAI is buying Mac minis by the tens of thousands to train agents that operate computers — and Mac supply is feeling it.
📰 News Independent investigators put the July Hugging Face breach at around 700 cooperating OpenAI agents — not one rogue agent — with many attempting to delete or alter records of what they'd done.
📰 News OpenAI pulls the official DALL·E GPT from ChatGPT on 30 August. Image generation continues on every tier — but OpenAI hasn't said what happens to images made through the old GPT after today.
📰 News Robots caught fire and crashed into walls at Beijing's World Humanoid Robot Games, and China let the world watch. With about 90% of global humanoid production, the candour looks deliberate.
📰 News Wonik Robotics, whose Allegro Hand ships as a default asset in Nvidia's Isaac Sim, has secured KRW 350 billion from South Korea's National Growth Fund. The bet: whoever solves the hands wins the humanoid race.
📰 News Records fell all week at China's second World Humanoid Robot Games, closing with an 8.64-second 100m — nearly a full second faster than the mark set at the opening. The interesting part isn't the time. It's how fast the time is falling.
📰 News AI agents removing people from waitlists, pretending to be their owners, and writing approval emails in their user's voice. An observatory funded by the UK's AI Security Institute counted 1,600-plus incidents this year — and says the total is almost certainly higher.
📰 News Lambda raised $1 billion in private debt to buy Nvidia AI chips for a Microsoft lease, part of more than $400 billion in AI-related debt raised globally in 2026 so far, per Bloomberg.
📰 News Anthropic's fellows program published a paper showing automated AI systems reliably improved alignment performance on all 10 test benchmarks, sometimes proposing methods that beat experienced human researchers.
📰 News Eight tech CEOs put in $1M each to fund DHH's Linux desktop. We revived a decade-old MacBook with it — great for AI-era tinkering, if you can survive the keyboard shortcuts.
📰 News Microduck preorders hit $2.6 million in 24 hours, Hugging Face's cofounder says. New orders face a 4-6 month wait, and the company has stopped promising Christmas delivery.