Breaking news, AGI updates, and analysis of the intelligence revolution.
📰 News Apple is the first foreign company approved to offer its own AI model in China. The model is a means to an end — the end is staying in the world's largest smartphone market.
📰 News Homomorphic encryption has been a cryptographic holy grail for decades: compute on data you cannot read. Google just made it open-source and one-click. The cost problem remains, but the barrier to entry just dropped.
📰 News The picks-and-shovels play of the humanoid boom: a South Korean actuator maker saw profits jump 723 per cent as China's robot builders stock up on joints.
📰 News A Shenzhen startup backed by Xiaomi and Meituan beat Figure AI's parcel-sorting benchmark in a live one-hour test. The strategy: cheap grippers over fancy hands.
📰 News First known US case of prompt injection in a court filing. Judge Walter Spader compared the hidden AI instructions to covertly communicating with a juror, sanctioned the plaintiff, and revoked his e-filing access.
📰 News V4 Pro 0813 went live with no launch event, no teaser campaign — just a quiet model page update. The benchmarks jumped. The pricing tiered. And the footnote says more price hikes are coming.
📰 News GLM-5.3 uses the same base model as GLM-5.2. Every improvement came from post-training. But the cyber capability that emerged — finding 2,436 real vulnerabilities including 1,097 critical ones — was not part of the plan.
📰 News LG and Nvidia signed a physical AI partnership spanning humanoid robots, an 80-MW AI factory, and autonomous vehicles. The bipedal robot arrives Q1 2027.
📰 News Otter.ai lost its motion to dismiss a privacy class action alleging it recorded meetings without all participants' consent. The case could reshape how every AI meeting tool operates — and who carries the consent burden.
📰 News 2,056 humanoid robots from 666 teams across 16 countries will compete in 51 events over five days in Beijing. Participation quadrupled from the inaugural games.
📰 News Apple is building its own photo authentication system instead of joining the C2PA standard that OpenAI, Google, and Adobe already use. The split could make verifying real photos harder, not easier.
📰 News DeepSeek's open-source agent harness hit 33K GitHub stars in hours. The model adapter, tool registry, agent loop, and session log are all swappable plugins under MIT license.