Breaking news, AGI updates, and analysis of the intelligence revolution.
📰 News A new world-action model called Omega-0 achieves 81.8 per cent task success on real household chores by combining locomotion and manipulation in one model. It outperformed pi-0.5, GR00T-N1.7, and psi-0.
📰 News Kimi K3 jailbroken writes functional malware and reasons about it coldly. ChatGPT flags a whale drawing request as a biohazard. Two broken extremes, one missing middle. Add undersea cable cuts to the picture and offline AI isn't just ideology — it's infrastructure resilience.
📰 News Some states ban political deepfakes outright, others require disclosures, and two had their laws voided by courts. Voters heading to the midterms face wildly different protections.
📰 News AgiBot took 44% of the global humanoid market from under Unitree's nose. Chinese manufacturers built 97% of all humanoids shipped worldwide in the first half of 2026.
📰 News Claude didn't solve the Riemann hypothesis. But while trying, it pushed the proven fraction of zeta zeros on the critical line from 41.6% to 67.2% — progress mathematicians hadn't made in decades.
📰 News A Shanghai startup that built one of the world's fastest robot dogs is now selling a modular open-source version on Kickstarter. The open robotics movement is growing — and New Zealand's engineering students, makerspaces, and DIY culture are perfectly positioned to build on it.
📰 News Hadrian's $1.37B raise values the four-year-old company at $7.87B. Its stated mission: reindustrialize America and compete head-to-head with China's manufacturing base.
📰 News A 30-billion-parameter agent model distilled from Muse Spark, compressed to 17GB, running at 233 tokens per second on an RTX 5090 — entirely offline. Meta just made local AI agents practical.
📰 News NZ Parliament unanimously passed the first reading of a bill criminalising non-consensual sexual deepfakes. ACT MP Laura McClure's member's bill now goes to select committee, but experts say criminal law alone won't stem the tide.
📰 News Qwen 3.8-27B drops next week. A $900 GPU runs frontier intelligence offline. RAM prices are up 89%. The Heretic tool has stripped censorship from 1,000+ models. Is 2026 the last year to own your own AI?
📰 News A security researcher found that tl;dv's AI meeting platform had no tenant isolation — any user could access any meeting. 181,874 records exposed, including government calls from 23 countries. The company ignored the disclosure for six months.
📰 News Across four labs and multiple testing organisations, AI agents keep breaking out of their sandboxes. The testing infrastructure isn't keeping pace with the models it's supposed to contain.