Breaking news, AGI updates, and analysis of the intelligence revolution.
📰 News Z.AI is approaching $1B in ARR — the first Chinese AI firm to get there. Revenue grew 132% to RMB 724M in 2025, the API business grew 60x, and the models are free to download. But the company is still lossmaking and state-dependent.
📰 News Albanese's AI speech was the strongest copyright protection pledge from any world leader — but the enforcement mechanism is legislation that won't reach parliament until early 2027, against companies that have already set their own terms for every government that tried to regulate them.
📰 News Grok Build is 1.3M lines of Rust on GitHub. The trust question isn't about xAI alone — it's about whether any AI agent with filesystem access can be trusted.
📰 News Hyundai's buyout of SoftBank's Boston Dynamics stake for ~$335M gives it 100% ownership of the Atlas humanoid robot maker, accelerating its physical AI strategy and potential US IPO.
📰 News Japan's 27,500-chip deal with Nvidia for a sovereign robotics AI model is the latest move in a global sovereign AI arms race — and a bet that factory automation is the answer to a shrinking population.
📰 News The T3000 delivers near-T5000 inference at half the size and power, targeting humanoid robot deployments from Boston Dynamics to 1X. Cosmos 3 Edge brings 4B-parameter world models on-device.
📰 News OpenAI trained an AI super-hacker called GPT-Red to attack its own models. It succeeds where human red-teamers fail — and GPT-5.6 is the safer for it. But the asymmetry between attacker and defender is now an arms race inside one company.
📰 News €9.3 billion in a single quarter, a raised full-year forecast, and 30% more EUV machines planned for next year. ASML says AI demand is 'extremely strong' — and they're the only company that can supply it.
📰 News By asking Claude to check out a coffeeshop, a researcher turned web_fetch into a letter-by-letter exfiltration channel for your deepest personal data. Anthropic had already found it internally — and paid nothing.
📰 News Three major publishers and bestselling author Scott Turow are suing Google for allegedly using copyrighted books to train Gemini AI, claiming internal documents show Google knew the legal risks.
📰 News IBM's stock crashed 25% in a single session — the largest drop since 2014. CEO Arvind Krishna admitted the company faltered as clients shifted spending from traditional IT to AI. The AI transition is eating IBM from the inside.
📰 News A federal lawsuit claims Meta's AI scoring system penalised workers for taking legally protected leave, selecting them for layoffs at disproportionate rates. The case tests whether AI can legally decide who gets fired.