Breaking news, AGI updates, and analysis of the intelligence revolution.
📰 News SoftBank's $6 billion bid for 1X Technologies lands below the Norwegian startup's own $10 billion target, a signal that investor appetite for humanoid robotics may be cooling even as shipments surge.
📰 News Microduck is a 25cm, $399 robot you can train to walk, kick, and pick things up — using open-source tools. Pollen Robotics built it for exactly the kind of hands-on learning NZ schools are trying to deliver. Pre-orders are open now.
📰 News Nvidia's fiscal 2028 forecast of 70 per cent growth implies $673 billion in annual sales — more than Apple and Alphabet. Jensen Huang says demand is even higher, but supply constraints are the bottleneck.
📰 News Bill Gates published a sweeping essay calling AI the most disruptive transition in human history. He says jobs will disappear in a decade, not generations, and governments have no plan to handle it.
📰 News Nvidia is buying Hugging Face for $12.9 billion. The deal puts the dominant AI chipmaker in charge of the platform where most open-source AI models live — and hands it a cloud business it previously walked away from.
📰 News A Shanghai-based robotics engineer told CBS News that armed humanoid robots are five to ten years away. The interview at the Beijing games raises questions about autonomous weapons that nobody has answered.
📰 News Figure AI came out of stealth with Index — 16 million crowdsourced videos from 108 countries training its humanoid robots. $15 million paid to creators, $1 billion committed for the next year.
📰 News Alibaba's Qwen team released a 125B model that activates just 6B parameters per token. It previews the Qwen4 architecture — and beats models 4x its size on coding benchmarks.
📰 News The anonymous model that topped OpenRouter last week was GLM-5.3-Flash all along. Zhipu says 100 trillion tokens a day served entirely on Chinese-made accelerators.
📰 News The C2PA standard meant to prove photos are real can be defeated on Android with a one-click root tool. Google says it won't fix the underlying issue. The EU's AI content rules just became enforceable this month.
📰 News OpenAI banned Russian ChatGPT accounts running a covert influence operation built around a fake Israeli think tank. The audience was small, but the infrastructure was elaborate — and that's what worries researchers.
📰 News Robotics funding has hit $23 billion in 2026, close to all of last year already. Humanoids alone pulled $8.6 billion. Figure AI, Agility, and Boston Dynamics are signing commercial contracts, not just running pilots.