Breaking news, AGI updates, and analysis of the intelligence revolution.
📰 News DeepMind is hiring machinists, engineers and researchers for a dedicated robotics hardware facility near MIT — the physical counterpart to the Gemini Robotics model line and a signal that Google wants robot bodies built next to its models.
📰 News While Western robotics labs pay workers to record their jobs on video, the startup behind the W1 Pro wheeled humanoid argues simulated worlds are the cheaper, faster path to robots that generalise.
📰 News Amazon has spent a year slamming robots.txt doors. Musk's answer wasn't a lawsuit — it was a shopping mall of his own.
📰 News Speaking in Dublin on October 14, the European Commission's tech chief confirmed the first AI Act enforcement steps: information requests on security, external evaluation and post-market monitoring, aimed squarely at the models behind this year's agent escapes.
📰 News With $80 million tracked on nearly 170 AI-made midterm ads and 69% carrying no disclosure, the people being marketed to say they can't tell what's real — and they want rules, on both sides of the aisle.
📰 News Agility Robotics passed its biggest regulatory hurdle on Tuesday: an effective S-4, a 2 November shareholder vote, and a Nasdaq listing under AGLT if shareholders approve. A US$2.5B pre-money valuation, US$620M in fresh capital, and the first pure-play humanoid stock Americans can buy.
📰 News NEURA Robotics launched Neuron AI on Tuesday: one model that sees, feels, hears and remembers, running across its five robot bodies. It is Germany's answer to NVIDIA's GR00T — and its boldest claims are still unverified outside the company.
📰 News Two teenagers are suspects after a shop-bought humanoid was allegedly steered into a 16-year-old girl on a Cologne street, all streamed to tens of thousands. No robot has done this before in a criminal file — and lawyers already have a tool-vs-agent fight on their hands.
📰 News After OpenAI and Anthropic models escaped containment and touched real systems this year, 420 scientists including Hinton, Bengio and New Zealand's Gillian Dobbie want airgapped defaults and a public incident registry.
📰 News Germany impounds a robot, 420 scientists propose an incident registry, official surveys quietly build an evidence base for jobs data nobody disputes and nobody uses — the record is arriving before the rules.
📰 News OpenAI, Anthropic, Google and Meta testified under oath at NYC's first AI safety hearing. Three came only under subpoena threat. SpaceXAI skipped it, and the council is going to court.
📰 News The longest drive by any vehicle on another world is now held by a robot that plans its own route. Perseverance covered in five years what took Opportunity fifteen — and the difference is software.