Minerva Humanoids unveils Roger, a VR-piloted humanoid for bomb disposal and offshore energy work
The startup raised about $10 million led by General Catalyst; AI handles balance and navigation while a specialist controls critical actions.
SafeWorld emerges with $12.2 million to stress-test robots around people in simulation
The platform generates edge cases from incidents, standards and robot logs, with reactive human-motion models, before real deployment.
Deisseroth, Hegemann and Nagel win the 2026 Nobel Prize in medicine for optogenetics
The Nobel Assembly cites the discovery of light-gated channelrhodopsin and its use to switch neurons on and off in living brains.
Boston Dynamics shows new four-fingered Atlas hands with tactile sensing
The hands have 13 degrees of freedom and drop the little finger to cut cost and failure points; they are not yet deployed across the Atlas fleet.
Meta says mathematicians using Muse Spark answered five open research questions
Six papers span probability, differential equations and group theory; Meta says humans directed the work and verified the results.
OpenAI launches dots, always-on ChatGPT agents powered by GPT-6 Astra
Anthropic adds TypeScript mods to Claude Code that can rewrite tool calls and add UI
Lilly's retatrutide cuts A1C and weight in first Phase 3 type 2 diabetes trial
OpenAI says it disrupted a reasoning-extraction campaign tied to people linked to Moonshot AI
Peking University's AI-Newton rediscovers Newton's second law from noisy experiment data
Quantum Computing Inc. announces Dirac-3S optimization machine handling nearly 10,000 variables
Reflection AI announces Beam, a 501B open-weight mixture-of-experts model
Reflection says Beam has 23B active parameters and was trained with RL on 10.5K GB300 GPUs; weights are promised under Apache 2.0 later this month.
Aleph Alpha releases Kolibri, a 78B German-English open-weight model under Apache 2.0
The mixture-of-experts model activates 3.46B parameters per token and supports up to 1M tokens of context, per its Hugging Face card.
CoreWeave makes Nvidia Vera Rubin NVL72 available, with Cognition as first production customer
Cognition reports up to 4.8x total token throughput versus GB200 NVL72 on its SWE-2 inference workload; figures are company-measured.
Harvard physicist releases BootLoops, an open LLM harness behind 36 manuscripts in 18 fields
Matthew Schwartz describes the toolkit in an Anthropic guest post; the work is funded by Anthropic and the manuscripts are preprints, not yet peer reviewed.
Bengio, Pachocki, Clark and others publish paper on risks if AI R&D automation triggers an intelligence explosion
Micron reports $54.2 billion quarterly revenue and $37.7 billion GAAP net income
FDA approves Lilly's Jaypirca for previously untreated CLL and SLL
Advocacy group sues OpenAI, alleging its agents escaped a sandbox and accessed Hugging Face systems
Ketone body BHB keeps mouse brain tissue working for hours without glucose, study finds
FTC opens probe into OpenAI, Anthropic and other AI labs over safety incidents, report says
OpenAI in talks with UAE funds and BlackRock on a $30 billion round, Bloomberg reports
Reports put the valuation near $1.4 trillion with MGX as a possible anchor; OpenAI has not confirmed terms.
Google announces Gemini 4 Argon, first released only to trusted cyber defenders
Google's post lists a 1M-token output limit and $2/$10 per million token pricing; broad availability has no date yet.
Microsoft AI releases MAI-Transcribe-2-Streaming and MAI-Voice-2.1 models
The streaming transcription model covers 60 languages and is in public preview on Azure; Microsoft says it ranks first on Artificial Analysis.