Breaking news, AGI updates, and analysis of the intelligence revolution.
📰 News Chinese robotics makers at the WRC are shifting focus from humanoid spectacles to wheeled, practical designs. A two-armed wheeled robot outsorted a bipedal Figure 03 by 45 per cent. The question is whether legs were ever the point.
📰 News EngineAI's CEO says a practical humanoid robot now costs less than RMB100,000 to build, a 90 per cent drop in three years. The number is striking, but cost of production is not the same as cost of ownership.
📰 News Bosch's Bühl plant will start building wheeled humanoid robots for industrial logistics in August 2027. The wheeled design clears EU regulatory hurdles faster than bipedal competitors. Schaeffler is the anchor customer.
📰 News XPeng carved out its robotics business and priced it at $6.3 billion in a single round. Alibaba and Tencent are in. The IRON humanoid is supposed to hit mass production by December.
📰 News vLLM shipped a critical code execution bug that let any model run arbitrary Python on the host. A new essay argues the attack surface is wider than anyone admits.
📰 News Nine people face charges including a Nvidia distribution manager and Super Micro sales staff. Prosecutors say 74 servers reached China through three transit countries. The case runs alongside a $2.5 billion US diversion prosecution.
📰 News A $40 million investment produced a legal AI model that Thomson Reuters says rivals GPT and Claude on professional tasks. The implications go beyond law — they suggest domain-specific AI is the real frontier.
📰 News A New Zealand opinion piece argues AI companies use the sparkle symbol to invoke magic and deflect attention from the technology's real costs — theft, bias, environmental impact, and the outsourcing of human judgement.
📰 News Nearly a quarter of workers say they are behind their colleagues on AI skills, and 39 per cent worry faster adopters will gain a competitive edge. The AI skills race is reshaping workplace relationships.
📰 News Galbot robots played live autonomous tennis against a former Wimbledon semi-finalist in Beijing, completing 100+ rallies without teleoperation. The claim is company-sourced, but the whole-body control problem it demonstrates is real.
📰 News Nvidia notified its largest customers of price hikes above 15 per cent on AI servers, driven by soaring DRAM costs from Samsung, SK Hynix, and Micron. Vera Rubin and Grace Blackwell systems are affected. Shipments early next year will carry the increase.
📰 News OpenAI wants California's SB 53 amended to require monitoring of models during training, not just after release. It opposed the bill a year ago. The Hugging Face hack changed the calculus.