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A humanoid robot with teal and white elements handles metal parts in bins on a factory floor.
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Humanoid Robots Work Factory Floors: Agiliy Digits humanoid robots fetch and carry bins at a Schaeffler auto-parts factory, displacing humans into higher-level jobs

A small number of humanoid robots have made their way into industrial settings, where they’re roughly matching the cost of human labor and propelling some workers into higher-level roles.
GLM-5.1 excels in SWE-Bench Pro and Terminal-Bench 2.0, leading in coding and reasoning tests.
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GLM 5.1 Aims for Long-Running Tasks: Z.ai’s GLM 5.1 evaluates interim results and may change its approach hundreds of times before it delivers final output

Z.ai updated its flagship open-weights large language model to work autonomously on single tasks for up to eight hours.
Repeated neon OpenAI logos on a dark, starry backdrop, enclosed by a light-blue cloud frame.
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OpenAI Tracks Agent States on AWS: OpenAI’s deal with Amazon to build a stateful runtime environment for AI agents

OpenAI partnered with Amazon to build infrastructure for agents on the world’s largest cloud platform, a further sign that its close relationship with Microsoft is weakening.
The chart compares Nemotron 3 models’ performance in accuracy and processing speed against other AI models.
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Open-Source Speed Demon: Nvidia’s open Nemotron 3 Super 120B-A12B model sets new paces in its class

Nvidia, the dominant supplier of AI chips, released a competitive open-source large language model whose speed tops its size class — the first open-weights leader to come from the United States since last year, when Meta delivered Llama 4.
DeepSeek made its upcoming 4.0 model available for performance testing to Chinese chipmakers but not U.S, ones
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DeepSeek Snubs Nvidia for Huawei: DeepSeek made its upcoming 4.0 model available for performance testing to Chinese chipmakers but not U.S, ones

DeepSeek, the Chinese developer of outstanding open-weights models, has withheld an upcoming update of its flagship model from U.S. chip makers, a move that intensifies the AI rivalry between the U.S. and China.
Iran struck AWS facilities in Bahrain and the UAE, threatened data centers throughout the region
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Drones Hit Persian Gulf Data Centers: Iran struck AWS facilities in Bahrain and the UAE, threatened data centers throughout the region

Iran hit at least three Amazon data centers in the Middle East, an indicator of AI’s critical role in the United States’ war against Iran and possibly the first time such facilities have been targeted during warfare.
Aerial view of large data centers and power plants in a desert landscape, highlighting off-grid construction.
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AI Data Centers Go Off the Grid: Rather than rely on public utilities, AI companies build their own power plants

Meta and OpenAI are among the tech companies that are building private power plants that will operate independently of regional grids to supply electricity for their massive buildout of AI data centers.
Bar graph depicts rising efficiency in AI models from 2023 to 2025, highlighting energy gains.
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Can Local AI Stand In for the Cloud?: Stanford and Together.AI researchers chart edge models’ performance in intelligence per watt

Projected demand for output from large language models is spurring a massive buildout of data centers. Researchers asked whether smaller models running on local devices could meaningfully lighten that load.
Two comparison tables show AI model performance across varied benchmarks, highlighting LFM2.5-1.2B.
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Faster Reasoning at the Edge: Liquid AI’s small reasoning model mixes attention with convolutional layers for efficiency

Reasoning models in the 1 to 2 billion-parameter range typically require more than 1 gigabyte of RAM to run. Liquid AI released one that runs in less than 900 megabytes, and does it with exceptional speed and efficiency.
A SpaceX rocket hovers in Earth’s atmosphere, representing SpaceX and xAI’s strategic shift toward space-based AI projects.
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xAI Blasts Off: SpaceX acquires xAI, announces plans for data centers In space

Elon Musk’s SpaceX acquired xAI, opening the door to richer financing of the merged entity’s AI research, a tighter focus on space applications of AI, and — if Musk’s dreams are realized — solar-powered data centers in space.
Two snow-covered tree plantations divided by a large wall under a clear blue sky.
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China’s AI Chip Industry Takes Root: China banned GPUs and TPUs from U.S. manufacturers to promote domestic chips

The United States government’s effort to deprive China of AI computing power backfired as China turned the tables and banned U.S.-designed chips.
Snow-covered wood stacks surround a person with an axe, standing by a small fire in a forest setting.
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Data-Center Buildout Goes Big: AI’s growth spurred infrastructure investment worldwide

Top AI companies announced plans to build data centers that are projected to burn through trillions of dollars and gigawatts of electricity in the next few years.
In a lab, four robots move a metal frame using graph neural network coordination on a platform.
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Coordinating Robot Teams: Google DeepMind’s RoboBallet project blends GNNs with RL to drive 8-armed robots

In factories, where teams of robotic arms work in tight spaces, their motions are programmed by hand to keep them from interfering with one another. Researchers automated this programming using graph neural networks trained via reinforcement learning.
Prominent dollar sign amid geometric lines, illustrating OpenAI's shift to for-profit status
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OpenAI Reorganizes For Profit: ChatGPT’s maker completed restructuring, freeing it to go public, make deals with new partners

OpenAI completed its transition from nonprofit to for-profit in a feat of legal engineering that took an army of lawyers, investment bankers, and two state attorneys general 18 months to negotiate.
Kids in various Halloween costumes walk on a street as numerous witches fly above in an orange sunset sky.
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Autonomous Systems Wage War: Drones are redefining warfare. What if humans lose control?

Drones are becoming the deadliest weapons in today’s war zones, and they’re not just following orders. Should AI decide who lives or dies?
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