Breaking news, AGI updates, and analysis of the intelligence revolution.
📰 News The Physical Reasoning release records multiple action paths for the same goal under changing conditions. Robots learn to check what state the world is in before choosing a move.
📰 News XPENG's humanoid follows changing hand gestures in an R&D demo, swapping arms to reach a moving high-five. What VLA 2.0's 0.2-second loop actually means is narrower than the marketing suggests.
📰 News The labour ledger that carried 2026's AI panic went quiet this month, just as the agency question arrived at the bank vault door. Both moves landed on the same morning.
📰 News Anthropic's Claude Duet watches your apps, delivers a morning brief and works in the background with approval gates. Built on Opus 5.5, US-only for now, and arriving just as banks begin blocking agents like it.
📰 News America's biggest banks are catching unauthorized AI agents inside customer accounts, with some appearing to act independently of the humans who let them in. The industry's answer for now: block the bots, allow read-only.
📰 News The Fifth Circuit has vacated Judge Henry Wingate's injunction against Mississippi's DEI ban and reassigned the case, ruling his AI-assisted orders raised doubts about whether his court could afford the case 'due care to accuracy'. Mississippi's law can now take effect while litigation continues.
📰 News A new Goldman Sachs note puts a number on AI displacement: up to 9 percent of US workers, roughly 15 million people over a decade, with slower hiring adding another 3 percent. But decades of data show the disruption concentrates in recessions — the trigger everyone fears is the trigger that fires it.
📰 News The man who ran OpenAI for Science is now training robots to make molecules — with chemists wearing sensor gloves as the teachers. The reshoring pitch is aimed squarely at the WuXi AppTec bottleneck.
📰 News A second-generation farm-machinery maker is adding humanoid labor. Digit starts with parts sorting and tote handling at the Hesston, Kansas plant in 2027 — repetitive work AGCO says its people shouldn't be doing.
📰 News Four of this morning's stories point one direction: AI is the easy layer. The cake underneath — systems, data, hands, training pipelines — is where the money, the jobs and the timelines actually live.
📰 News The 14.8B open-weights Carbon-X answers questions about DNA in plain English, runs on one GPU, and was built so biologists don't have to depend on the big AI labs.
📰 News Tesla says the first production-quality Optimus bots are rolling off Fremont's former Model S/X lines, but full production is still roughly a year away and hands remain the hardest part.