Breaking news, AGI updates, and analysis of the intelligence revolution.
📰 News AI data centre demand is draining the global supply of memory chips, and the bill is landing on NZ consumers. A Tauranga store owner reports a 467% RAM price increase, and the Technology Users Association says phone prices are up 30%.
📰 News Apple's latest filing escalates its trade secrets case against OpenAI, naming 11 additional former employees and seeking expedited discovery. OpenAI published internal messages it says contradict Apple's narrative.
📰 News A 97% success rate separating fabric sounds impressive. But humanoid robots in Chinese factories are still doing one task at a time — not running production lines.
📰 News Google is the Android of robotics — software for everyone's hardware. OpenAI bought Figure AI for $2.9B and is building its own robots. Two giants, two completely different approaches to physical AI.
📰 News Fanuc is putting Google's Gemini AI into 1.1 million factory robots worldwide. The partnership mirrors Android's phone strategy — Google provides the software, Fanuc provides the hardware. Shares jumped 16%.
📰 News Google Intrinsic and Nvidia Isaac are the two major software platforms for industrial robotics. Google is the Android — software for everyone's hardware. Nvidia is the full-stack — simulation, models, and the chips that run them. Here's how they compare.
📰 News Red Hat's asago project connects AI governance policies to the infrastructure controls that enforce them. With Microsoft, Nvidia, and MIT on board, it's an attempt to make compliance automatic rather than manual.
📰 News Rust's new LLM policy draws a line: AI can help you understand code, but it can't write it for you. Five teams adopted the rules, and the reasoning reveals why polished PRs no longer mean what they used to.
📰 News Attackers compromised the GitHub account of keyv's maintainer, pushing credential-stealing malware across 868+ npm packages with 2 billion monthly downloads. The worm is still spreading. npm, GitHub, AWS, Kubernetes, and Vault tokens all targeted.
📰 News Unitree is raising $620 million at a $7.4 billion valuation. It is the first humanoid robot company to go public — and it cannot sell in the United States.
📰 News OpenAI absorbed roughly $9 of every $10 spent on identifiable AI tools by House offices, while the lawmakers who regulate the industry lean on one vendor.
📰 News Figure 03 humanoid robot climbs a ladder without human assistance, powered by an upgraded Helix AI model that combines real-time visual perception with whole-body motion control.