Figure's Humanoid Robots Sort 249,560 Packages in 200-Hour Run
Figure AI ran its Figure 03 humanoid fleet for 200 continuous hours on a logistics line, processing 249,560 packages with zero hardware failures, the company said after an unedited livestream. The run began as an eight-hour dare and stretched to twenty-five times that, a direct answer to critics who say most humanoid demos are staged. Sorting parcels is still a narrow task, and the question of general dexterity remains open.
Read full story →Altman Calls Home-PC RAM a Waste as AI Buildout Strains Memory Supply
OpenAI's Sam Altman said it is "quite terrible" for consumers to keep idle DRAM in home computers when memory is scarce, arguing it should go to cloud data centres. The comment defends OpenAI's business, but the constraint is real: Amazon is lining up about two million more Nvidia GPUs for 2027 and 2028, and Altman met Samsung and SK as memory supplies tighten.
Read full story →Hugging Face Releases Carbon-X, an Open Model to Query DNA in Plain English
Hugging Face released Carbon-X, an open model that lets researchers paste a DNA sequence and ask about it in natural language, with a focus on predicting mutation effects. It runs on a researcher's own hardware, keeping unpublished sequences private, and its training recipe is public. The company documents real limits: miscounts, hallucination, and degraded output on long sequences.
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