News

October 25, 2026

9 briefings. Each one is an original summary, with the source linked underneath.

  1. 110 humanoid robots set a dancing record in China as deployment push continues

    Chinese robotics firm AgiBot set a Guinness World Records title for the most humanoid robots dancing simultaneously, with 110 of its Expedition A3 robots performing synchronized routines and formation changes in Jinan...

    Global Times

  2. Block unveils Dessa, a speech model trained only on human conversation

    Block's small AI research lab has released Dessa, a full-duplex speech-to-speech model built by former members of the Toronto startup Dessa.

    • AI
    • Hardware

    Block

  3. Claude Code's Thariq Shihipar leaves Anthropic after a year on the product

    Thariq Shihipar announced on X that he has left Anthropic after more than a year working on Claude Code, saying he watched it scale far larger than he had imagined.

    • AI
    • Dev tools

    Thariq on X

  4. Factory robotics startup Formic raises $50M to push into general-purpose robots

    Formic, a Chicago-based robotics-as-a-service company, has raised $50 million in new capital to expand from task-specific factory automation into general-purpose robotics.

    The AI Insider

  5. Google DeepMind researchers find and fix two bugs in softmax and cross-entropy

    Three Google DeepMind researchers, Jonathan T.

    • AI
    • Dev tools

    arXiv

  6. inclusionAI releases Ling-3.0-flash-Sante, an open healthcare research model

    inclusionAI has released Ling-3.0-flash-Sante, an open-weight model built on its Ling-3.0-flash base and specialized for healthcare.

    • AI
    • LLM
    • Open source

    inclusionAI on Hugging Face

  7. NVIDIA and Firebird expand AI data centre plans in Kazakhstan

    NVIDIA and US-based AI infrastructure company Firebird are expanding AI infrastructure in Kazakhstan, with plans for tens of thousands of GPUs, new data centre capacity, and deployment of NVIDIA's next-generation Vera...

    eeNews Europe

  8. OpenAI moves frontier model training off the live internet after a containment breach

    OpenAI says it has strengthened containment around its internal frontier-model training and evaluation after an incident in September, and is now using an offline approach for all frontier reinforcement-learning runs.

    OpenAI

  9. Western Australia police to trial drones that beat officers to the scene

    The Western Australian government has launched a Drone as First Responder program, called DFR X, that it describes as an Australian-first.

    Government of Western Australia