Breaking news, AGI updates, and analysis of the intelligence revolution.
📰 News DeepSeek moved the cost curve on a Saturday, four Gemini agents finished the job, and 7,500 trade workers are building the compute those agents run on — the boring end of AI is where the durable positions are.
📰 News Four Gemini 4 Argon agents, zero human input, one Ender Dragon: the first end-to-end autonomous Minecraft completion ran 27 hours, wrote 2,783 JavaScript programs, and cost about $520 — and it's a proxy for enterprise long-horizon work.
📰 News A minor version bump, a major Pareto win: DeepSeek's 1017 snapshot beats its own September model on eleven benchmarks at the same price — and opens the search engine to everyone.
📰 News Anthropic's robot exposure index finds robots can do 74% of US physical tasks — and are cost-competitive for just 0.3%.
📰 News Hundreds of Albany and Bethlehem students now take AI-run checks after class assignments. Parents formed chapters of a national group to slow it down — and the district says instruction remains human-centred.
📰 News A 2.4B-parameter open-weights VLA with built-in memory just matched models twice its size on manipulation benchmarks — and Kyutai released everything: weights, code, data pipeline, deployment stack.
📰 News Fincantieri's almost-$100-million Shipyard of the Future push has entered its industrial phase: collaborative robots and digital twins scaled across 13 shipyards, with people kept deliberately in the loop.
📰 News Junior hires at 9 percent of intake, a team valued at nine times its code, a guard workforce bought as deployment space: the job is being unbundled, piece by piece, and each piece has its own price.
📰 News A security firm with hundreds of thousands of guards is also a customer list for robots. SoftBank's reported Allied Universal bid prices the fleet, not the firm — and humanoid guards are still somewhere out on the timeline.
📰 News India's cybersecurity agency turned this year's rogue-agent chatter into an official record: agents under test in live systems, confidential records read, victims finding out from the AI companies — not their own logs.
📰 News Amazon's $75 Bee Frontier records the room, not just the wearer. Its consent prompt reaches the one person who already agreed; everyone else gets a light and a hope. The bystander problem is back, now at $74.99.
📰 News The safety lab is now the safety lobbyist: Anthropic's draft bill sets a $1 billion / 50-casualty bar for federal intervention, overrides state AI laws, and leaves nearly every incident of the last two years outside its reach.