This is an absolutely crazy thing to discover and not enough fuss is being made of it. There was no reason to believe this was even possible, far less that LLMs knew how to do it. *We* don't know how to do it, so they were not trained in it, they just figured it out.
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Here is a mass attempted replication of old findings of LLMs with new models. Much conventional wisdom is outdated. Recent models no longer invent citations and both hallucination rates & stereotyping has dropped. But they are still sycophantic & lean left. zou-group.github.io/llm-claims-s...
If this holds up, it is big: "We asked GPT-6 Astra to edit Qwen3.5-0.8B weights to improve math. It directly changed only 0.016% of weights, fixing 0.8B's reasoning loops & improving math up to 6x and even instruction following 3x, without gradients or training." rikiyat.github.io/blog/weight-...
Walmart just committed $6B to warehouse robots. None of them are humanoids. Symbotic's deal covers 25 distribution centers and up to $6.92B in added backlog. The catch: Walmart was 85% of its revenue. Source: Symbotic / Walmart Video: ROBOTICS.BIZ BRIEF #042 #Robotics #WarehouseAutomation
Tutor Intelligence just raised $75M to scale its robot workers. The a16z-led Series B brings it to $117M. Sonny and Cassie learn from every deployment, and customers pay by the hour, no upfront buy. Source: Business Wire Video: Tutor Intelligence #Robotics #PhysicalAI #WarehouseAutomation
AI an ‘inevitable friend’ to publishers as deepfakes will put premium on trusted content, claims PR boss pressgazette.co.uk/publishing-s... #Sponsored
When you think about the Labs' weird approach to software releases (sudden changes, bad communication), it is worth remembering that a core belief is that these products are a temporary thing they have to do to raise money for a couple years until "true" AGI makes all products obsolete.
MicroVision's lidar is moving deeper into FieldAI's robots. FieldAI bought MOVIA sensors after testing IRIS on ground vehicles and MOVIA Air Plus drone mapping, and is widening the work across federal and industrial programs. Source: MicroVision Video: FieldAI #Robotics #DefenseTech #Lidar
Loved this post from @marcua.net. It's almost so obvious that it shouldn't have to be written, but I'm glad someone wrote it. A lot of the time I've gotten back thanks to AI has gone to prototyping and performance, benefiting user experience in ways that previously would have meant less features.
Foxconn has #Humanoid robots working in Texas now. More than 10 are deployed at its Houston sites, where six buildings make Nvidia AI servers. Their brains build on Nvidia's GR00T model, and Foxconn plans to go beyond Texas. Source: Reuters Image: Hon Hai USA #Robotics #Humanoid #PhysicalAI
A proposal: how to hire junior engineers in the age of AI. https://seldo.com/posts/a-proposal-how-to-hire-junior-engineers-in-the-age-of-ai/
I would like your finest bottle of Reeder (New), monsieur.
We can’t afford an AI arms race - our government needs to collaborate internationally on regulation, including with China. If we treat AI development as a zero-sum game, we all lose.
A3 just posted the strongest robot quarter of 2026. North American companies ordered 10,989 robots in Q3, up 24.8% to $723.5M. Semiconductor orders nearly doubled, and cobot orders jumped 56%. This is buying, not hype. Source: The Robot Report Image: A3 #Robotics #Automation #Manufacturing
Percepto just opened its inspection brain to rival drones. The Austin company launched Axion: 160+ AI models trained on 100,000 hours of inspection data, now open to any drone fleet or sensor. Source: The Robot Report Video: Percepto #Robotics #PhysicalAI #Drones #Automation
The Pro series of GPT models continues to be really impressive for one-shot problems that involve complex calculations, references, or sophisticated ideas. It isn't particularly fast (or particularly pleasant) to use but GPT-6 Astra Pro gives that "ask one question of the great oracle" feel.
Valks!!!
Show Machenta a task once. The robot does it. The Imperial spinout raised $40M, a record seed for a UK robotics startup. Trained only in simulation, its model learns from that one demo. No real-world data. Source: Imperial College London Video: Machenta #Robotics #RobotLearning #PhysicalAI
This thread is a good summary of how dramatically the craft of software engineering has changed over the past 12 months
CircuitHub's The Grid assembles circuit boards in Massachusetts with zero changeovers. A robot factory, not a line. Prototypes and 10,000-unit batches share the same machines. 2.2M+ boards in five quiet years. Source: ASSEMBLY Magazine Video: CircuitHub #Robotics #Reshoring #PhysicalAI
Agility Robotics is about to become a public #Humanoid company. Its Churchill XI deal should raise about $465M, with a Foxconn-led PIPE. Shareholders vote Nov 2, and trading as AGLT is expected Nov 5 on Nasdaq. Source: GlobeNewswire Video: Agility Robotics #Robotics #PhysicalAI #Nasdaq
Rendezvous Robotics raised $20M for spacecraft that assemble themselves in orbit. Its tiles launch separately, then maneuver and lock together in space. In 2028, seven plan to join, split, and rejoin on their own. Source: Via Satellite Video: Rendezvous Robotics #Robotics #SpaceTech #PhysicalAI
I w̵r̵o̵t̵e̵ a̵ q̵u̵i̵c̵k̵ b̵l̵o̵g̵ p̵o̵s̵t̵ re-shared a really great snippet from @emollick.bsky.social's new book Co-Existence, about why AI doesn't actually produce statistically average answers. P.S. Buy his new book, it's great!
Acknowledgments of large language model (LLM) use in biology preprints have grown exponentially since 2023. In three years, the share of preprints acknowledging LLM use is nearly as high as acknowledgments of specialized AI tool use, at 17% vs. 19% in September.
There's a common refrain that the price of tokens is only going to go up, but as far as I can see the opposite is true. I spent all week in Opus 5.5 building tons of high-fidelity fully-working interactive prototypes to test ideas for work (plus a few side projects), and only hit 8% of my limit.
One good news - Intel does have a paying packaging customer.
I was interviewed in Vox about my new book, and a question on the meaning of work let me discuss something I have been thinking a lot about, comparing the logic of industrialization to the logic of craft: "You’re a hand-weaver in a world of power looms." www.vox.com/technology/5...
Penske Media and education company Chegg are appealing the dismissal of their lawsuit against Google over the impact of AI Overviews on traffic and revenue pressgazette.co.uk/news/penske-...
@sengonzalezny.bsky.social and I introduced the AI Chatbot bill in New York after hearing too many tragic stories of chatbots causing harms to our children and tireless advocacy from families like Maria Raine’s.
This statement from Lip-Bu Tan (Intel's CEO) makes me furious. He needs to go. We have secured substrate capacity for our advanced packaging business over the next two years, even though external customers have yet to be announced or even signed. Who knows...
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