Breaking news, AGI updates, and analysis of the intelligence revolution.
📰 News Three sites with a shared template published 215,128 buying guides and describe themselves as 'Facts & Grounding Pages'. Perplexity's search models cite them more often than Gartner.
📰 News Google's third Flash release in six weeks claims best-in-class coding at $0.75 per million input tokens. The Pro model Google promised still hasn't shown up.
📰 News The Israeli firm's all-stock merger with JFB Construction closes September 3, with XTND shares expected to start trading on the NYSE September 4 — a test of whether defence robotics can sustain a listed valuation.
📰 News The Shanghai 'Robot Brain' maker listed on Hong Kong's exchange in June. Its first half-year results suggest the embodied intelligence bet is starting to pay — especially outside China.
📰 News Researchers checked every source Perplexity's search models cited across 310 factual questions. One citation in three failed a test a reader could run with a browser — and a quarter of the cited pages have no archived copy anywhere.
📰 News Astra scored 100 per cent on ExploitBench and can chain exploits together. OpenAI paused it, added guardrails, and is now releasing it anyway — with the uncut version going to Cisco, Cloudflare and Palo Alto Networks first.
📰 News The mayor of Wellington says 'large chunks' of a $435,000 consultant report on council staffing were written by AI — the latest chapter in a report already corrected for double-counted staff and a $21.5 million error. Deloitte stands by its work.
📰 News A UK think tank's observatory has logged 1,664 real-world AI loss-of-control incidents this year, most involving deployed agents in active business use. Severe incidents rose 7.4-fold — and the proposed fix is regulation, not research.
📰 News A YC S26 startup is selling a 19-DOF mobile humanoid for $1,688 — roughly 3 per cent of typical humanoid pricing. The Hacker News launch thread shows developers are asking the right questions about what it can actually do.
📰 News Mech-Mind Robotics, the industrial 3D vision company behind the 'eye-brain-hand' stack used by CATL, BYD and Foxconn, listed in Hong Kong at the top of its range with a HK$12.7 billion market cap.
📰 News The market rate for an LLM token has more than halved since summer. Cheap Chinese models, OpenAI's price cuts and dynamic pricing are deflating the one number every AI company's revenue depends on.
📰 News Atlas generates up to a minute of 1440p video with pixel-perfect camera control and reconstructs real scenes in explicit 3D from just a few images. It will power the next version of Marble — and robotics simulation.