📰 News Richtech Is Bringing a Humanoid and a Transport Robot to IMTS as One Fleet
A listed US robotics company is demoing a humanoid and an autonomous transport working as one fleet at IMTS 2026 — coordination is the pitch, not the robots.
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📰 News Two Ex-Apple Engineers Just Raised $100M to Automate the Worst Job in the Warehouse
Two ex-Apple engineers raised $100M to automate the warehouse job everyone hates — and say robots are already running it for a Fortune 250 company.
📰 News The US Senate Is Now Formally Investigating OpenAI's Hugging Face Breach
A Republican Senate subcommittee wants 16 answers about the July breach by October 1 — while a Democrat demands to know why GPT-6 Astra is harder to monitor than the models that caused it.
📰 News d-Matrix Is Building Its Inference Chips Inside Nvidia's Racks — and That's the Point
d-Matrix's Raptor XPU — 100 TB/s of memory bandwidth from stacked 3D DRAM — will ship in Nvidia's standard liquid-cooled racks. Nvidia wins either way.
📰 News Alibaba Is Set to Bet $300 Million That Testing AI Is Worth $2.5 Billion
A former Alibaba Tongyi lab intern's 11-month-old testing startup is reportedly closing a $300m round from Alibaba, Tencent and HSG at $2.5b. The evals business has become infrastructure.
📰 News UK Regulators Told to Give New Health AI 'L-plates' Before Full Approval
A year-long UK commission says new AI health tools should run under supervision before full approval — learner plates for algorithms, plus continuous monitoring and public safety records.
📰 News Microsoft Signs a Legally Enforceable AI Standard for Schools — Because Governments Wouldn't
No training on student data, no AI companions, human review for high-risk decisions — and school districts can bolt the terms onto existing Microsoft contracts from November.
📰 News The Man Who Wrote OpenAI's Alignment Playbook Is Now Watching It From the Board
The founder of the Alignment Research Center joins the board that controls OpenAI — as a non-voting observer on the PBC board, with a recusal covering his own government work.
📰 News Timo Wants to Be Your Car's Passenger Seat Companion. It Launches Today
A dashboard robot with a smiling OLED face that leaves voice notes at physical locations — Timo launches on Kickstarter today. It is either charming or deeply strange, and the campaign will find out which.
📰 News China Tightens Humanoid Robot IPO Rules After Unitree's Volatile Debut
Recurring revenue, narrowing losses, real innovation: the bar for a humanoid IPO just got higher in China. The trigger was not a failing company — it was the sector's strongest one.
📰 News India Is Filming Itself to Teach the World's Robots
Tens of thousands of Indian workers film their own jobs for roughly $2.62 an hour so humanoid robots can learn to move like people. The practice is load-bearing for the entire humanoid economy — and the ethics haven't caught up.
📰 News Two Boston Dynamics Veterans Want Robots to Work the Casino Floor
Marc Theermann says most robots are 'deaf and mute.' His new company, backed by Marc Raibert, wants to give Spot and Atlas a stage persona — starting with theme parks, cruise ships and casinos.