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AI is now unstoppable
SpaceX made Musk the first trillionaire, the US government pulled Anthropic's most powerful models offline, and a Sony robot beat ranked table tennis pros. The main news of the week.
China just unveiled a lifelike robot built to keep you company
UBTECH revealed the U1, a full-size humanoid companion that reads your mood from your face and voice and adjusts how it talks back. It's a sign of robots moving out of the factory and into the living room.
These robots guard the crops while farmers sleep
TRiC Robotics built autonomous rovers that patrol fields at night and kill pests with UV light instead of chemicals. The company says it cuts pesticide use by up to 70%.
You can now watch the World Cup like a video game
The BBC's new 3D Experience turns FIFA's live tracking into a match you control, flying the camera anywhere or dropping into a player's view. The AI tracks every player about 50 times a second.
A robot just beat ranked table tennis pros
Sony AI's robot Ace beat seven professionally ranked players under official ITTF rules, including former world No. 5 Miu Hirano. Sony is careful not to claim it has passed the very best humans yet.
Anthropic let Claude Mythos out, the model it had kept locked away
Fable 5 is the first public version of Mythos, restricted until now because it was so strong at finding security flaws. It launched state-of-the-art on nearly every benchmark.
Three days later, the US government pulled it offline
Washington forced Anthropic to disable Fable 5 and Mythos 5 worldwide over national security, after a reported way to jailbreak the model. The order even covered Anthropic's own foreign staff, so both models went dark for everyone.
The Anthropic CEO finally said why he left OpenAI
Dario Amodei framed it less as one fight over safety and more about trust. A sense that the people there weren't being straight and didn't live up to the values they talked about.
Google's new AI translates you while you're still talking
Gemini 3.5 Live Translate handles speech to speech across 70+ languages. Instead of waiting for you to finish, it streams the translation a couple of seconds behind as you speak.
Siri can finally dig through your whole phone
The rebuilt Siri searches your messages, emails and photos on command, like pulling a hotel booking out of an old email. It can also read your screen and answer questions about what you're looking at.
Motion capture just dropped the suit
Researchers showed off MAMMA, a markerless system that captures full body motion from ordinary video. It even tracks two people touching and grabbing each other, the kind of contact that usually breaks motion capture.