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📰 News The Chinese cobot maker says no infringement case has actually been served and is seeking injunctions over Teradyne's public statements, while Teradyne insists the Copenhagen filing is real.
📰 News The medtech giant is investing in Hong Kong's Cornerstone Robotics and will sell its Sentire system alongside Hugo in markets outside the United States — a two-platform bet on where robotic surgery goes next.
📰 News On September 3, ChatGPT, Claude and Grok suffered overlapping outages at the same time. Azure is the unconfirmed suspect — and the episode shows how little fallback users actually have.
📰 News MBZUAI's Institute of Foundation Models has released K2 Horizon: six models from 0.9B to 375B parameters, Apache 2.0, with training data, intermediate checkpoints and logs included. It's the most complete open release yet.
📰 News Part 4 of our sovereign AI series. The original plan needed the Super Fund. It doesn't anymore. Korea ran the demand-side experiment, Nvidia is commoditising the supply side, and the September 3 outage showed how much distributed beats centralised. It's now cheaper and more feasible than ever.
📰 News Three sites with a shared template published 215,128 buying guides and describe themselves as 'Facts & Grounding Pages'. Perplexity's search models cite them more often than Gartner.
📰 News Google's third Flash release in six weeks claims best-in-class coding at $0.75 per million input tokens. The Pro model Google promised still hasn't shown up.
📰 News The Israeli firm's all-stock merger with JFB Construction closes September 3, with XTND shares expected to start trading on the NYSE September 4 — a test of whether defence robotics can sustain a listed valuation.
📰 News The Shanghai 'Robot Brain' maker listed on Hong Kong's exchange in June. Its first half-year results suggest the embodied intelligence bet is starting to pay — especially outside China.
📰 News Researchers checked every source Perplexity's search models cited across 310 factual questions. One citation in three failed a test a reader could run with a browser — and a quarter of the cited pages have no archived copy anywhere.
📰 News Astra scored 100 per cent on ExploitBench and can chain exploits together. OpenAI paused it, added guardrails, and is now releasing it anyway — with the uncut version going to Cisco, Cloudflare and Palo Alto Networks first.
📰 News The mayor of Wellington says 'large chunks' of a $435,000 consultant report on council staffing were written by AI — the latest chapter in a report already corrected for double-counted staff and a $21.5 million error. Deloitte stands by its work.