Breaking news, AGI updates, and analysis of the intelligence revolution.
📰 News GPT-6.1 Terra lands at $1/$5 per million tokens, benchmarks 15 points above GPT-5.6 Terra on professional computer tasks at a third of the cost — and carries the same Critical cybersecurity threshold rating as GPT-6 Astra.
📰 News State Secretary Eric van der Burg confirmed 25,000 civil service positions will be cut by 2035, with AI and standardised IT systems expected to absorb part of the workload.
📰 News A new Open Rights Group report says AI now touches sham-marriage detection, asylum age assessments and border surveillance at the Home Office, with officials invoking national security to block scrutiny. The Home Office says human caseworkers still make every decision.
📰 News The interesting part of Autel's October firmware drop is not in the release notes: an FCC waiver keeps security patches flowing to Covered-List drones until 2029, on the logic that an unmaintained fleet is the greater risk.
📰 News Barely two years out of stealth, the company retrofitting excavators for full autonomy has nearly a billion dollars of venture backing — and a 2027 target of triple-digit machine fleets.
📰 News A 20-year take-or-pay clause, a quarter of the world's biggest software company invited to leave, robots ordered while the CEO admits they cost more than they return: Monday's coverage is one pattern — obligation ahead of proof.
📰 News The world's largest pure-play contract logistics provider is scaling Digit past its first commercial warehouse — the clearest real-world signal yet that early humanoid adopters are buying into a roadmap, not a payoff.
📰 News The AI lab behind Claude has gone from leaked prospectus to public S-1 in a month, with Nasdaq ticker ANT, a potential record-setting raise, and more than 90 pages of risk factors that read like a safety research agenda.
📰 News 63% of US voters oppose a nearby AI data center; 52% want AI development paused until Congress regulates. Even a third of MAGA supporters want the pause.
📰 News Authentic Brands alleges Claude trained on 274 Elvis songs and echoes them back. Anthropic says it will defend the case fully. Why estates may out-lawyer labels.
📰 News The H2-X humanoid lost control mid flip during a live demo at the World Physical AI Conference in Hangzhou, losing part of a right leg on impact — days after its choreographed reveal and a 20% share jump for Unitree.
📰 News Hundreds of dual-arm UR robots running Sereact's Cortex platform are already processing fashion returns at Zalando sites in Europe — a warehouse job most automation deliberately avoided, now operating beyond the demo stage.