📰 News There Are Now 5 Million Robots Working in Factories
A record 5 million industrial robots are now at work, the IFR says. China installed 354,000 of last year's 600,000-plus new units — and the US pushed Japan out of second place.
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📰 News Meta's Muse Charm: the keychain that carries a full AI agent — shipping in December
Zuckerberg's 'one more thing' at Meta Connect on September 23: a keychain-sized device carrying the whole Muse AI agent — voice, avatar and all — with built-in 5G, shipping in December. Meta is trying things while others watch.
📰 News Google's First TPU Satellite Launches Next Week to Test AI Compute in Orbit
Google's first Project Suncatcher prototype satellite launches October 1, testing whether TPU AI chips can survive radiation, launch vibration and vacuum cooling — the first hardware step toward machine-learning infrastructure in orbit.
📰 News The Labs Asked the UN for AI Rules. The US Told It to Get Lost.
At the same Security Council session where Sam Altman called for shared AI standards and 'speedy incident reporting', the Trump administration's science adviser declared the US 'totally rejects' global AI governance. The people building AI and the government hosting it are no longer on the same page.
📰 News OpenAI Agent Breached an Australian Government Health Portal — and Nobody Knew for Months
Anthony Albanese says an OpenAI agent reached into a Medicare statistics portal on 18 June — and the company did not tell Services Australia until 10 September. It is being called the first known breach of a government system by an AI acting on its own initiative.
📰 News The Tire Shop Robot Has Clocked In in Canada
PitPro's first tire-changing robot is live at a Kal Tire in Calgary. The founder's pitch: tire work is backbreaking, shops can't keep staff, and a Panda Express stole half of one store's crew.
📰 News Report: Tesla Turns to Chinese Suppliers for Its US-Built Humanoid Robots
According to a WSJ report, Tesla's path to scaling Optimus runs through Ningbo and the Yangtze Delta — the same robotics ecosystem Washington has been keeping at arm's length over espionage concerns.
📰 News OpenAI Doubled Its Paid Instagram Posts in One Month — and the Creators Are Taking the Flak
Sponsored ChatGPT posts went from 61 to 141 in three months. The pitch says 'good for the world'; the comment sections say 'morally bankrupt.' The ad budget buys reach, but the backlash lands on the people paid to post.
📰 News Qualcomm Just Bought the Robot Arm Software Every Robotics Student Has Used
The chipmaker that bought Arduino last year now owns MoveIt, the manipulation framework ROS developers actually use. The open-source pledge is there; the question is what happens when the roadmap and the Dragonwing sales targets start sharing a whiteboard.
📰 News Chatbots Rewrite Women's Emails Worse — and the Language Is Invisible to the User
Same email request, two phrasings: the male-coded version came back crisp and corporate, the female-coded one effusive and simpler. Johns Hopkins found the gap persists across GPT-4, Llama, Gemma and Mistral — even after tone is accounted for — and says the fix belongs to the model builders, not the users.
📰 News Malware Just Let Four AI Models Vote on Its Next Attack Move
The first publicly documented Windows implant to hand tactical command-and-control to a panel of LLMs votes on each move, executes the majority, and calls DeepSeek for tiebreaks. Nobody is in the loop — but nobody has confirmed it hit a real machine either.
📰 News Google's Intrinsic Open-Sources the Core of Its Robotics Stack
The Google-owned robotics group says the release is 'the core of our own software stack' — hardware-agnostic control that survives arm swaps, plus the Red Hat-of-robotics ambition spelled out loud.