The Builders Walk Out
Hyundai autoworkers struck over robots the company owns outright, in what may be the first strike ever triggered by humanoid deployment. Meanwhile the engineers who built modern AI are protesting outside Anthropic. The backlash is coming first from the people closest to the machines, and they all want the same thing: the ability to say slow down.
Read full story →No Fingerprints
A senior White House official accused China's Moonshot of building the year's top open model, Kimi K3, by copying Anthropic's. The problem: distillation leaves no fingerprint, and the evidence is a statistical hunch about a model that keeps calling itself Claude. A separate, sturdier charge about smuggled Nvidia chips may matter more.
Read full story →Who Referees the Frontier?
Washington is designing an AI regulator modelled on the body that oversees stockbrokers, and the White House is already reviewing it. The institutional form was the easy part. Five unresolved questions, from who funds it to who can even measure a frontier model, and a rival idea to simply buy the labs outright, are the hard part.
Read full story →Betting Billions on Robots That Can't Quite Work Yet
One week brought a European humanoid unicorn, a $1.7 billion raise from Uber's founder, and AMD challenging Nvidia for robot brains. Yet today's humanoids run at half human speed, and 74% of the market leader's sales go to people building other robots. The bodies have raced ahead of the brains.
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