Breaking news, AGI updates, and analysis of the intelligence revolution.
📰 News Hyundai's buyout of SoftBank's Boston Dynamics stake for ~$335M gives it 100% ownership of the Atlas humanoid robot maker, accelerating its physical AI strategy and potential US IPO.
📰 News Japan's 27,500-chip deal with Nvidia for a sovereign robotics AI model is the latest move in a global sovereign AI arms race — and a bet that factory automation is the answer to a shrinking population.
📰 News The T3000 delivers near-T5000 inference at half the size and power, targeting humanoid robot deployments from Boston Dynamics to 1X. Cosmos 3 Edge brings 4B-parameter world models on-device.
📰 News OpenAI trained an AI super-hacker called GPT-Red to attack its own models. It succeeds where human red-teamers fail — and GPT-5.6 is the safer for it. But the asymmetry between attacker and defender is now an arms race inside one company.
📰 News €9.3 billion in a single quarter, a raised full-year forecast, and 30% more EUV machines planned for next year. ASML says AI demand is 'extremely strong' — and they're the only company that can supply it.
📰 News By asking Claude to check out a coffeeshop, a researcher turned web_fetch into a letter-by-letter exfiltration channel for your deepest personal data. Anthropic had already found it internally — and paid nothing.
📰 News Three major publishers and bestselling author Scott Turow are suing Google for allegedly using copyrighted books to train Gemini AI, claiming internal documents show Google knew the legal risks.
📰 News IBM's stock crashed 25% in a single session — the largest drop since 2014. CEO Arvind Krishna admitted the company faltered as clients shifted spending from traditional IT to AI. The AI transition is eating IBM from the inside.
📰 News A federal lawsuit claims Meta's AI scoring system penalised workers for taking legally protected leave, selecting them for layoffs at disproportionate rates. The case tests whether AI can legally decide who gets fired.
📰 News This morning's article framed Oracle as a leveraged AI landlord hoping the tenant can pay. A closer look at the contracts, the data centre footprint, and the environmental moat suggests a different story. Some thinking from Tauranga, NZ — not financial advice.
📰 News Oracle's credit rating now sits one notch above junk. S&P blames a $42B free cash flow deficit from AI infrastructure spending and calls OpenAI a 'central credit risk.' The AI buildout is eating the company.
📰 News Anthony Albanese calls AI a societal inflection point on par with renewables, but Treasury documents show Anthropic pushed to weaken copyright for datacentre investment. The speech is Wednesday.