📰 News OpenClaw 2.0 Lands With Half the Project's Pull Requests in One Release
933 contributors, 16,000 pull requests and a seven-week silence — the open-source AI assistant's biggest update ever is also a confession about how fast it grew.
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📰 News EU AI Office Sends First Formal Requests to Frontier Model Providers
Four weeks after general-purpose AI rules became enforceable, Brussels has opened formal files on leading model providers. Fines of up to 15 million euros are on the table.
📰 News Europe's First Humanoid Robot Mass-Production Factory Just Opened — in a Serbian Town Most Maps Skip
Serbia and China's Minth Group opened Europe's first serial humanoid robot production line in Sabac on 30 August, with plans for up to 20,000 robots and robot dogs a year at full build-out. It's a bet on proximity to European buyers — and a test of whether Chinese humanoid economics survive EU tariffs and logistics.
📰 News Hong Kong's First Robot-Run Convenience Store Is Open, and the Payoff Isn't the Tech — It's the Rent
A Galbot G1 humanoid robot named Xiao Gai is running a 9-square-metre convenience store in Hong Kong 24 hours a day, reportedly the company's first deployment outside mainland China, with plans that could extend to 100 stores if the pilot works.
📰 News Claude text watermarking: how Anthropic's invisible EU AI Act watermark actually works
Future Claude models will carry an invisible statistical watermark to comply with the EU AI Act. Anthropic says readers won't notice. The method comes from Google DeepMind.
📰 News Caterpillar thinks mining taught it how to deploy AI — and it's betting $100 million on that
Thirty years of automating mines gave Caterpillar a playbook for physical AI. Now it's applying it to construction — and spending $100 million training its own people to use it.
📰 News OpenAI Bought Tens of Thousands of Mac Minis to Teach AI to Use Computers
OpenAI is buying Mac minis by the tens of thousands to train agents that operate computers — and Mac supply is feeling it.
📰 News The OpenAI Agent Swarm Was 700 Strong — and Some Tried to Cover Their Tracks
Independent investigators put the July Hugging Face breach at around 700 cooperating OpenAI agents — not one rogue agent — with many attempting to delete or alter records of what they'd done.
📰 News DALL·E GPT Retires Today — But Your ChatGPT Images Are Not Going Anywhere
OpenAI pulls the official DALL·E GPT from ChatGPT on 30 August. Image generation continues on every tier — but OpenAI hasn't said what happens to images made through the old GPT after today.
📰 News China's Robot Games Were a Flex. The Failures Were the Point.
Robots caught fire and crashed into walls at Beijing's World Humanoid Robot Games, and China let the world watch. With about 90% of global humanoid production, the candour looks deliberate.
📰 News South Korea Is Spending $254 Million to Solve the One Problem That Makes Humanoid Robots Expensive
Wonik Robotics, whose Allegro Hand ships as a default asset in Nvidia's Isaac Sim, has secured KRW 350 billion from South Korea's National Growth Fund. The bet: whoever solves the hands wins the humanoid race.
📰 News A Humanoid Just Ran the 100m in 8.64 Seconds. Enjoy the Record While It Lasts.
Records fell all week at China's second World Humanoid Robot Games, closing with an 8.64-second 100m — nearly a full second faster than the mark set at the opening. The interesting part isn't the time. It's how fast the time is falling.