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Pentagon Adds ChatGPT Mil and Grok for Government to GenAI.mil
The Pentagon added ChatGPT Mil and Grok for Government to GenAI.mil, a portal already used by more than 1.7 million of over 3 million eligible defense staff. Anthropic's Claude remains locked out.
UBTech H1 2026: revenue up 104% as humanoids enter factories
UBTech doubled H1 2026 revenue to 1.27 billion yuan, sold 921 full-size humanoids and narrowed its EBITDA loss by 45.9%. The market still values Unitree six times higher.
The hidden cost of robotaxis: Waymo and Zoox test drivers hurt
US Occupational Safety and Health Administration records reveal more than two dozen injuries to Waymo and Zoox test drivers in 2024 and 2025. Hard braking by the autonomous vehicles is the main cause. The longest absence from work lasted 175 days.
Sony and Warner Sue Anthropic Over Song Lyrics in Claude Training
Sony Music Publishing and Warner Chappell sued Anthropic and named co-founders Dario Amodei and Benjamin Mann personally, alleging torrenting and scraping of tens of thousands of compositions to train Claude. Damages sought: up to $150,000 per work.
SpaceX Casts Turbine Blades for AI. Emissions Are the Catch
Elon Musk says SpaceX is building a Texas foundry for gas turbine blades that could cut deployment times by up to 18 months. Only four firms worldwide have mastered the casting, and faster turbines also mean faster emissions near data centers.
Tencent Open-Sources Hy4 Preview: 770B Params, 49B Active
Tencent has released Hy4 Preview under open weights — a 770B-parameter MoE with 49B active and a context window above 1M tokens. The weights take 1.56 TB, the license is Apache 2.0, and there is no vision input.
Caterpillar takes its mining autonomy playbook into AI
Caterpillar CTO Jaime Mineart explains how decades of mining autonomy translate into AI rollouts on construction sites. The company launched Cat AI Assistant, built on data from 1.6 million connected assets.
RoboSense: Robotics LiDAR Sales Up 510 Percent in H1 2026
RoboSense closed H1 2026 with RMB 1.02 billion in revenue, but the robotics segment grew hardest — 282,600 LiDARs, up 510.4 percent year over year. The company is entering three new component categories: Eyes, Skin and Muscles.
Lightberry Lumi: A Conversational Humanoid Built on the Unitree G1
Lightberry unveiled Lumi — a humanoid on the Unitree G1 base with 34 degrees of freedom, a Jetson Thor and 64 GiB of memory. It costs $39,990 against $13,500 for the bare base. The robot is built to talk and guide, not to do physical work.
Jetson Orin Nano 2: 78 TOPS and Twice the Inference Performance
NVIDIA unveiled the Jetson Orin Nano 2 — 78 TOPS, 8 GB of memory and an 8-core Arm CPU in the predecessor’s form factor. It promises twice the inference performance and 40 percent lower power in 15 W mode, shipping in H1 2027.
First 11-vs-11 Humanoid Soccer Match Played at RoboCup 2026
RoboCup 2026 in Incheon saw two full teams of eleven humanoids play for the first time. B-Human of Bremen beat HTWK Robots of Leipzig 4-0, both sides on Booster Robotics hardware.
SoftBank in Talks to Take Control of 1X at a $6 Billion Valuation
SoftBank is negotiating a majority stake in 1X Technologies at roughly $6 billion — below the $10 billion the company sought a year earlier. NEO preorders sold out in five days, yet no delivery has been confirmed.