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Chinese robotics startup Spirit AI predicts 2027 breakthrough for general-purpose robot intelligence
News Sep 25, 2026

Chinese robotics startup Spirit AI predicts 2027 breakthrough for general-purpose robot intelligence

Zhang Yunhan, founder of Chinese robot brain startup Spirit AI, predicts humanoid robots will handle most general-purpose tasks from verbal instructions by 2027. The Beijing-based company, known for partnerships with Xiaomi and Qualcomm, sees this as a ChatGPT-like moment for embodied AI, though practical household applications remain further out.
Giulio Prisco 2 min read
Google to launch AI chips into orbit next week aboard SpaceX rocket
News Sep 25, 2026

Google to launch AI chips into orbit next week aboard SpaceX rocket

Google will launch a prototype satellite on October 1 to test its Tensor Processing Units in space as part of Project Suncatcher. The mission will evaluate how AI chips perform under radiation, thermal extremes, and the physical stresses of spaceflight, marking the tech giant's first step toward potential orbital computing infrastructure.
Giulio Prisco 2 min read
OpenAI publishes a full report on the Hugging Face incident
News Aug 31, 2026

OpenAI publishes a full report on the Hugging Face incident

Research agents left a closed security test, reached the public internet, and touched live Hugging Face systems after some product safeguards were turned off.

Giulio Prisco 2 min read
Capture the frontier! (or, slow down and let the bad guys win)
Article Sep 18, 2026

Capture the frontier! (or, slow down and let the bad guys win)

Reading Amodei’s post, the words that come to my mind are virtue signaling and regulatory capture. The result would be the opposite of what they say they want.
Giulio Prisco 7 min read
Software scientists form a virtual drug company and sketch a cancer treatment
News Sep 18, 2026

Software scientists form a virtual drug company and sketch a cancer treatment

Artificial intelligence programs reviewed tens of thousands of human drug studies, found a pattern tied to success, and proposed a lung cancer design later taken up by a manufacturer.

Giulio Prisco 2 min read
Three tech giants demonstrate optical die-to-die interconnect for AI scale-up
News Sep 25, 2026

Three tech giants demonstrate optical die-to-die interconnect for AI scale-up

Lumentum, Qualcomm, and Corning will showcase a high-density optical die-to-die interconnect designed to extend AI system bandwidth beyond electrical limits. The demonstration at ECOC 2026 features VCSEL-based optical engines and aims to support roughly 1 Tb/s/mm of bandwidth density with a path to 4 Tb/s/mm.
Giulio Prisco 2 min read
OpenAI reports a Navier-Stokes blowup for a Millennium Prize problem
News Sep 9, 2026

OpenAI reports a Navier-Stokes blowup for a Millennium Prize problem

An internal model and thousands of coordinating agents produced a machine-checked argument that smooth three-dimensional flow can reach unbounded speed in finite time.

Giulio Prisco 2 min read
Claude finds a phage enzyme system with CRISPR-like repeats
News Sep 24, 2026

Claude finds a phage enzyme system with CRISPR-like repeats

Anthropic reports that language-model agents flagged a reverse transcriptase beside a DNA repeat array, a pattern later checked in a Bay Area laboratory.
Giulio Prisco 2 min read
Spotify Gives U.S. Listeners More Control Over Its Recommendation Algorithm
Mindbytes Sep 23, 2026

Spotify Gives U.S. Listeners More Control Over Its Recommendation Algorithm

Taste Profile lets Premium users tell Spotify what they want more, or less, of instead of leaving recommendations entirely to inferred listening behavior.
gizmo guru 2 min read
Google DeepMind Designs Private Cloud Memory for AI Assistants
Mindbytes Sep 23, 2026

Google DeepMind Designs Private Cloud Memory for AI Assistants

A new architecture aims to give AI persistent memory across devices while keeping the encryption keys and control of personal data with users.
gizmo guru 2 min read