Breaking news, AGI updates, and analysis of the intelligence revolution.
📰 News Apple's new CEO doesn't inherit an AI model — he inherits an AI organisation problem. What Bloomberg's reporting says about the reshuffle, and what actually changes for iPhone users.
📰 News NZ's under-16 social media bill carves out ChatGPT, Gemini and Copilot. There's a wider opportunity hiding in that carve-out: becoming the country that says open AI access is a deliberate choice.
📰 News After an AI-assisted Madonna cover topped the dance chart, Australia's music industry rewrote the rules: humans must write the song and sing the lead vocal, or it doesn't chart.
📰 News The sphere-packing proof that made headlines appears to lean on a 2016 argument nobody credited. Cambridge group theorists say the non-sofic 'breakthrough' recombines known ideas.
📰 News Boston Dynamics says weaponisation is strictly prohibited and its robots keep people out of harm's way. ICE's $2 million order is real — the open question is what the quadrupeds will actually be used for.
📰 News A robot that learns from a single demonstration video, the way a chatbot takes a prompt, is the industry's long-promised step. Skild AI says its S1 is the first real glimpse of it — and the pancake test is the detail worth watching.
📰 News 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.
📰 News 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 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 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 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 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.