A humanoid robot just beat the human half-marathon world record by seven minutes in Beijing
A humanoid robot named Lightning completed the Beijing E-Town Half-Marathon today in 50 minutes and 26 seconds, beating the human world record by ne…
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Google is in talks with Marvell to build custom AI inference chips as it diversifies beyond Broadcom
Summary: Google is in talks with Marvell Technology to develop two new AI chips – a memory processing unit and an inference-optimised TPU – adding a…
Stanford’s AI Index finds China has nearly closed the performance gap with the US despite spending 23 times less
In short: Stanford’s 2026 AI Index Report finds the performance gap between the best American and Chinese AI models has collapsed to 2.7%, down from…
Meta targets 20 May for 8,000 layoffs as it redirects billions toward AI infrastructure
In short: Meta will begin companywide layoffs on 20 May, cutting approximately 8,000 employees (10% of its 78,865-person workforce), with additional…
Allbirds sold its shoe business for $39 million and is pivoting to AI cloud computing
In short: Allbirds is rebranding as NewBird AI and pivoting from sustainable footwear to GPU-as-a-service cloud computing after selling its shoe bus…
Tesla’s China chief calls Shanghai factory a ‘golden key’ to mass-producing humanoid robots
In short: Tesla’s China president Wang Hao has described the Shanghai Gigafactory as a “golden key” to mass-producing Optimus humanoid robots, the f…
Anthropic releases Claude Opus 4.7 with benchmark-leading coding and agentic performance
In short: Anthropic has released Claude Opus 4.7, its most capable generally available model, with benchmark-leading scores on SWE-bench Pro (64.3% …