Robo Revolution
Prometheus, the physical-AI startup co-founded by Jeff Bezos, has raised $12 billion at a $41 billion valuation to build a “Robo-Engineer” that designs and manufactures everything from jet engines to drugs – even as Bezos bets the result will be a labour shortage, not mass unemployment.
OpenAI says one of its general-purpose reasoning models has disproved an 80-year-old conjecture by mathematician Paul Erdős, a result validated by mathematicians but one that still leaves the deeper problem unsolved.
Three solo founders — behind Daymaker, OpenClaw and Base44 — have turned Sam Altman’s ‘one-person company’ idea into reality, showing how AI tools now let individuals build and sell businesses at startling speed.
Sixteen researchers behind the Leiden Declaration, endorsed by the International Mathematical Union, warn that AI and tech-industry money threaten the values, autonomy and future of mathematical research.
China Post has begun deploying RobotEra humanoid robots to sort parcels at a major Guangzhou mail hub, the latest sign of Beijing’s aggressive push to automate industrial work.
A Chinese court has ruled that adopting AI is not a lawful excuse to fire staff, ordering a tech firm to reinstate a worker it tried to replace with a large language model — an early sign of judicial pushback against AI-driven layoffs.
Carbon Robotics’ new Large Plant Model, trained on 150 million images from its laser-weeding fleet, recognises plant species instantly — letting farmers target brand-new weeds in real time without any retraining.
Honor’s Lightning robot ran a half-marathon in 50 minutes 26 seconds in Beijing, beating the human world record by over six minutes — the latest milestone in China’s accelerating humanoid robotics push.
Objection, an AI platform backed by Peter Thiel, will score every journalist in the world on credibility — promising cheaper redress while alarming those who rely on anonymous sources.
McKinsey says 25,000 of its 60,000 ’employees’ are now AI agents, as consultancies restructure around human-AI teams and brace white-collar workers for upheaval.
Claude Opus 4.6’s leap in long-context retrieval let it triage, route and assign work across a 50-person engineering org — the first sign AI agents can manage people, not just write code.
A Korean research team has turned industrial sulfur waste into recyclable, self-moving soft robots using a new 4D printing method, pointing to a closed-loop future for advanced materials.