Breaking news, AGI updates, and analysis of the intelligence revolution.
📰 News A UK think tank's observatory has logged 1,664 real-world AI loss-of-control incidents this year, most involving deployed agents in active business use. Severe incidents rose 7.4-fold — and the proposed fix is regulation, not research.
📰 News A YC S26 startup is selling a 19-DOF mobile humanoid for $1,688 — roughly 3 per cent of typical humanoid pricing. The Hacker News launch thread shows developers are asking the right questions about what it can actually do.
📰 News Mech-Mind Robotics, the industrial 3D vision company behind the 'eye-brain-hand' stack used by CATL, BYD and Foxconn, listed in Hong Kong at the top of its range with a HK$12.7 billion market cap.
📰 News The market rate for an LLM token has more than halved since summer. Cheap Chinese models, OpenAI's price cuts and dynamic pricing are deflating the one number every AI company's revenue depends on.
📰 News Atlas generates up to a minute of 1440p video with pixel-perfect camera control and reconstructs real scenes in explicit 3D from just a few images. It will power the next version of Marble — and robotics simulation.
📰 News A phased 50→165 MW build in Mikkeli, contracted before construction. The interesting part isn't the megawatts — it's that Finnish planners treated AI compute as a heating utility.
📰 News Apple's new CEO doesn't inherit an AI model — he inherits an AI organisation problem. What Bloomberg's reporting says about the reshuffle, and what actually changes for iPhone users.
📰 News NZ's under-16 social media bill carves out ChatGPT, Gemini and Copilot. There's a wider opportunity hiding in that carve-out: becoming the country that says open AI access is a deliberate choice.
📰 News After an AI-assisted Madonna cover topped the dance chart, Australia's music industry rewrote the rules: humans must write the song and sing the lead vocal, or it doesn't chart.
📰 News The sphere-packing proof that made headlines appears to lean on a 2016 argument nobody credited. Cambridge group theorists say the non-sofic 'breakthrough' recombines known ideas.
📰 News Boston Dynamics says weaponisation is strictly prohibited and its robots keep people out of harm's way. ICE's $2 million order is real — the open question is what the quadrupeds will actually be used for.
📰 News A robot that learns from a single demonstration video, the way a chatbot takes a prompt, is the industry's long-promised step. Skild AI says its S1 is the first real glimpse of it — and the pancake test is the detail worth watching.