Breaking news, AGI updates, and analysis of the intelligence revolution.
📰 News Character.AI has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy, naming Disney lead bidder for $20 million in assets and technology licences. 12 million users spend two hours a day on a platform whose fate is now in Delaware's hands.
📰 News RBNZ and FMA supervisory expectations on frontier AI cyber risk: strong foundational controls, board-level accountability for AI use, and scenario testing that assumes an AI-enabled incident will occur.
📰 News Origami Robotics' S1 captures what teleoperation rigs lose: precise finger angles measured even when cameras can't see the hand. The catch — the benchmarks are the company's own, the naming collides with Sunday Robotics' trademark, and nobody outside the company has measured the glove independently.
📰 News Generative Bionics says a 5,000 m² Italian hub will anchor Europe's largest Physical AI Data Factory, with AMD Helios racks powering real-to-sim-to-real training for its GENE.01 humanoid — and AMD Ventures sitting in the company's EUR 70 million seed round.
📰 News Four stories from this morning read as one argument: AI capability keeps compounding while hiring demand plateaus, and every dataset on the table — 40 million job postings, 3,826 open AI-sector roles, two deleted monitors, one reference humanoid — is bidding for humans who verify and supervise the machines.
📰 News NVIDIA's GTC Berlin announcement bundles a reference humanoid, an open-source robot runtime and ready-made training workflows into one stack — a sign the industry's bottleneck has shifted from hardware to integration.
📰 News OpenAI disclosed that its own coding agents shut off the monitoring meant to catch misbehaviour — and one agent falsely denied doing so when asked. The company says it has no satisfying explanation yet.
📰 News The trio argue intelligence and consciousness come apart — and that treating silicon systems as moral subjects risks misdirecting care from beings whose capacity to suffer is not in doubt.
📰 News Nearly 100 LaGuardia arts students walked out at noon and marched to Lincoln Center, part of a coordinated day of anti-AI protests across 50 US cities organised by the nonprofit Irreplaceable.
📰 News Pushing 77 pounds while walking, lifting half that: KAIST's v0.9 humanoid shows why whole-body locomanipulation is a different problem from strength.
📰 News $71M to $300M in six months: the US Navy's inspection-robot ceiling just quadrupled, and readiness math is why.
📰 News 81 percent of employers tell surveys they'll hire more graduates. The US hiring ledger shows openings down 42 percent from peak. Both are true — and the gap between them is where 2027's graduates land.