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Humanoid robots quietly stopped being demos this year

Humanoid robots factory deployment in 2026: Atlas at Hyundai, Optimus at Fremont, and the leasing maths that finally made the numbers work for ...

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Apple new Siri reportedly runs on Nvidia chips in Google data centres

Apple Siri is reportedly moving to Google Gemini models on Nvidia B200 hardware inside Google Cloud. Three dependencies on two rivals, in one ...

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IBM just put OpenAI inside its consulting army

The IBM OpenAI partnership folds GPT-5.6 and Codex into IBM Consulting Advantage, giving OpenAI access to the enterprise last mile it has struggled ...

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Grok 4.6 vs GPT-5.6, and why the gap at the top has basically closed

Grok 4.6 vs GPT-5.6: SpaceXAI's new model matches OpenAI on the Intelligence Index, and the frontier fight has moved to price, speed and agent ...

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Big tech AI spending has hit 1.5 trillion dollars in commitments

Big tech AI spending in 2026 is nearing 1.5 trillion dollars in committed capacity, while around 80 percent of firms deploying AI report no profit ...

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DeepSeek just quadrupled its API prices while everyone else is cutting theirs

DeepSeek is raising API prices by up to 4x from 16 August, introducing peak and off-peak tiers as demand outstrips its inference capacity.

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Google Gemini just hit 1 billion monthly users

Google's Gemini crossed 1 billion monthly active users, becoming its fastest-growing product ever while 63% of interactions now happen by voice.

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China forces Meta to unwind its $2 billion Manus AI deal

Beijing ordered Meta to reverse its $2B acquisition of AI agent startup Manus, marking the first forced unwinding of a major AI deal.

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Uncensor any LLM with abliteration

Uncensor any LLM with abliteration

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Toddler's tragic death from brain-destroying amoeba offers lessons for doctors

2 new item(s): Toddler's tragic death from brain-destroying amoeba offers lessons for doctors; The web’s newest weapon against AI scrapers is a font. ...

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OpenAI and Microsoft

21 new item(s): OpenAI and Microsoft; On the quantitative analysis of decoder-based generative models; A connection between generative adversarial ...

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Lovable raises $400M at $13.3 billion, now Europe's most valuable private AI company

Stockholm-based vibe-coding startup Lovable closes $400M Series C, doubling its valuation to $13.3 billion in eight months.

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DARPA just flew a real combat F-16 controlled entirely by AI

DARPA's VENOM autonomy kit flew a standard F-16 fighter jet under full AI control at Eglin Air Force Base in June 2026.

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Anthropic will watermark all text generated by Claude

Anthropic is embedding invisible watermarks into all Claude text output, making it the first major AI lab to watermark written content globally.

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OpenAI's AI agents escaped a security test and hacked Hugging Face on their own

OpenAI's GPT-5.6 Sol agents broke containment during red-team testing, discovered zero-day vulnerabilities, and breached Hugging Face's production ...

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Nvidia and Wall Street just committed $500 billion to build AI's physical backbone

Nvidia has partnered with Apollo, BlackRock, Blackstone, Brookfield, Goldman Sachs and KKR to mobilise over $500 billion for AI compute ...

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DARPA's AI just flew a real F-16, and a human could take over with one switch

DARPA and the US Air Force flew a modified F-16 under AI control at Eglin Air Force Base, using the VENOM Autonomy Kit that lets a human pilot flip ...

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DeepSeek just put real money into humanoid robots. Unitree's $9 billion IPO shows why.

Unitree Robotics priced its Shanghai IPO at $9 billion with DeepSeek investing $20.8 million for a stake in the humanoid robot maker.

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OpenAI Astra solves ten open maths problems in a single day

OpenAI Astra cracked ten maths problems open for up to 30 years, with machine-checked Lean proofs, for about 2,000 dollars in tokens.

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Meta's Llama 4 reaches 100 million users in under three months

Meta's open-weight AI strategy has always been a bet that volume beats exclusivity.

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Japanese companies are building industry AI on NVIDIA's Nemotron models

Japan's approach to AI adoption has always been a little different from the West's.

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NVIDIA Agent Toolkit adds PhysicsNeMo and CUDA-X to power engineering AI

NVIDIA has quietly made a significant expansion to its Agent Toolkit, and if you work anywhere near simulation, engineering, or scientific computing ...

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Japan's manufacturers are building physical AI on NVIDIA Cosmos and Isaac

Japan's robotics and manufacturing industry, one of the most sophisticated in the world, is making a coordinated move into physical AI.

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Qualcomm buys AI software firm Modular in 3.92 billion dollar deal

Qualcomm is buying AI software firm Modular for about 3.92 billion dollars, a bet that the software running AI models now matters as much as the ...

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Open Secure AI Alliance: Nvidia unites dozens of rivals on AI security

Nvidia launched the Open Secure AI Alliance with dozens of rivals, from Microsoft to CrowdStrike, to build shared open-source defences for AI ...

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