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Ben Bernanke joins Anthropic’s oversight trust
Anthropic has appointed Ben Bernanke, former US Federal Reserve Chair and Nobel Prize winner in economics, to its Long-Term Benefit Trust — the independent oversight body that holds the company to its mission.
86% of enterprise GPUs run at half capacity — VentureBeat Research
A VentureBeat Research survey of 573 technical leaders finds that 86% of enterprises running their own GPUs use them at less than 50% capacity, while half have deployed an AI agent that passed internal evaluations but then failed a customer.
Sunrun wants to put AI compute nodes inside customers’ homes
Sunrun, a solar and home battery storage company, has launched a pilot of its "distributed AI compute" program — small compute nodes installed in homes with solar systems will form a nationwide AI compute network sold to enterprise buyers.
Virtual gyms for robots: how simulation replaces costly real-world testing
SoftServe outlines the concept of virtual gyms — simulation environments where robots train and are validated before deployment. The approach achieved 99.5% precision in Toyota Material Handling forklift perception after digital-twin domain adaptation.
RoboCup 2026: first-ever 11-vs-11 humanoid soccer match
In Incheon, South Korea, humanoid robots played the first-ever 11-vs-11 soccer match on real hardware. RoboCup 2026 also brought the debut of Generalist AI's GEN-1 model, achieving 99% success on simple physical tasks.
ChatGPT goes family: OpenAI hiring PM for parents, caregivers, and older adults
OpenAI has opened a PM role dedicated to families, caregivers, and older adults. Sensor Tower data shows the share of ChatGPT users aged 35+ rose to 31% in Q2 2026. The move comes as legal pressure over AI safety for children intensifies.
Apple sues OpenAI alleging systematic hardware trade secret theft
Apple filed a federal lawsuit against OpenAI, alleging systematic theft of hardware trade secrets tied to unreleased products. The scheme was allegedly orchestrated by OpenAI's Chief Hardware Officer Tang Tan — a 24-year Apple veteran who led iPhone and Apple Watch design.
LingBot-VA 2.0: robot control model trained on physics, not language
Robbyant released LingBot-VA 2.0, a robot control foundation model trained on physical causality from scratch. A new VAE tokenizer, multi-chunk prediction, and asynchronous inference pipeline deliver 93.6% on RoboTwin 2.0 and 225 Hz control frequency.
Robot surgeon: first humanoid surgery on live animals confirmed by Nature
UC San Diego researchers performed the world's first laparoscopic surgeries using teleoperated Unitree G1 humanoids on live pigs. Results published in Nature. The robot costs a fraction of the da Vinci price and could operate where specialized surgical equipment never reaches.
AI² Robotics raises $735M for wheeled humanoids from Shenzhen
Chinese firm AI² Robotics has closed a $735 million funding round at a $2.8 billion valuation. The company bets on wheeled humanoid robots instead of bipedal systems, targeting logistics, manufacturing, and public-sector deployments.
Using multiple AI models at once? Your failure rate is 2.25x higher than you think
New research shows enterprises running multi-model AI pipelines underestimate their actual failure rates by a factor of 2.25. Combining models does not eliminate blind spots — it hides them, creating a false sense of system resilience.
GPT-5.6 goes public — OpenAI launches ChatGPT Work
OpenAI launched GPT-5.6 — three models Sol, Terra, and Luna — alongside ChatGPT Work, combining ChatGPT and Codex for non-technical users. Sol scores 80 points on the Coding Agent Index, beating Fable 5 at one-third the cost.