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Agility Robotics Goes Public in $2.5B SPAC Deal, Becoming First US-Listed Pure-Play Humanoid Maker
Agility Robotics will list on Nasdaq via a $2.5 billion SPAC merger, backed by more than $300 million in booked orders for its Digit humanoid and a new Digit v5 planned for 2026.
Google Delays Gemini 3.5 Pro to July 17 for Ground-Up Architectural Rebuild
Google DeepMind has pushed back the launch of Gemini 3.5 Pro to July 17, abandoning the existing architecture in favor of a redesign aimed at GPT-5.6 and Anthropic's frontier models.
ICML 2026 Wraps in Seoul: Record 24,000 Submissions, Agentic AI Everywhere, and a Peer-Review Reckoning
The world's premier machine learning conference closed its Seoul edition after a record year — 6,352 accepted papers, agent safety as the dominant theme, and nearly 500 desk rejections over LLM review violations.
India's Supreme Court Voids Tribunal Rulings Built on AI-Hallucinated Precedents, Orders Zero Tolerance
India's Supreme Court set aside NCLT and NCLAT orders that relied on six fake, AI-generated judicial precedents, declaring such rulings 'no decision in the eyes of the law' and directing the Bar Council to frame rules.
Meta Launches Muse Image, Its First Fully In-House AI Image Generator
Meta has rolled out Muse Image, an image generation model built entirely in-house, marking a milestone in the company's push to reduce dependence on external AI architectures.
New York Times Says OpenAI Hid Evidence in ChatGPT Copyright Trial
The New York Times has accused OpenAI of concealing evidence in their landmark copyright case, escalating a trial that could reshape how AI companies license training data.
OpenAI's Deployment Arm Acquires Palantir-Rooted Northslope in Enterprise AI Push
The OpenAI Deployment Company is buying Northslope, its second acquisition since May, adding hundreds of forward-deployed engineers who build AI systems inside customer organizations.
Tesla's Optimus Line Takes Shape: 1,000 Robots a Week by September, But None For Sale
Tesla's converted Fremont line is ramping toward 1,000 Optimus Gen3 units per week by September with a designed capacity of one million a year — yet every robot built in 2026 stays in-house.
TSMC Follows Samsung and SK Hynix Into Price Surge With Surprise 7nm Hikes
TSMC is raising prices on its mature 7nm-class nodes, catching customers off guard as AI demand tightens capacity across the entire Asian chip supply chain — not just at the leading edge.
Unitree's $610M Shanghai IPO Registration Approved, Igniting A-Share Robot Stock Frenzy
China's securities regulator has approved Unitree Robotics' STAR Market IPO registration, sending more than 30 robot-concept stocks to their daily limit as the humanoid maker targets a valuation above 100 billion yuan.
Google Launches Africa's First Applied AI Lab in Accra to Back Continental Startups
The lab pairs African founders with Google DeepMind models before public release, with applications open through August 31 and a demo day set for December.
AI Could Reshape Jobs of Nearly 80 Million Workers Across ASEAN, ILO Report Finds
The International Labour Organization says 22.9% of Southeast Asian employment is exposed to generative AI — but sees no evidence yet of large-scale job losses.