CATL bets on RoboParty: China's battery giant enters the humanoid race sideways
The world's largest battery maker takes a stake in a HIT-founded open-source humanoid startup. Not a VC move - an integration play.
4 h ago 5 8
Deutsche Telekom's LMOS: what enterprise AI teams actually want from a platform
Arun Joseph at InfoQ describes a real, in-production agentic compute layer: ephemeral agents, an ADL, and a central capabilities catalog.
4 h ago 5 5
August 2, 2026: The AI Act GPAI becomes enforceable – day one of a still under-equipped regime
Since today, transparency in training, disclosure of protected sourcing, and systemic risk management are no longer recommendations but legal obligations for general-purpose AI models. The question remains whether the AI Office, barely established, will be able to translate this mandate into case law—under the explicit threat of an American response.
17 h ago 9 12
Seedance 2.5: ByteDance extends generative video to 30 seconds in a single shot
The Seed team pushes single-shot generation to 30 seconds, with multi-modal references (30 images + 10 videos + 10 audios) and timestamp editing.
yesterday 8 11
Montage starts CXL 3.2 chip production - China gets a second memory-fabric supplier
Shanghai's Montage begins production of CXL 3.2 controllers - the memory-pooling fabric that reshapes AI-server economics gets a second Chinese supplier.
Aug 1, 2026 at 09:40 14 18
LimX Dynamics: Shen Hua locks on PMF - "next stop, landing"
The co-founder LimX frames the new battle: leaving the motion control demo, entering industrial POC deployment. Luna, COSA brain, FluxVLA Engine. The next commercial filter is no longer the demo, it's the signed contract.
Jul 31, 2026 at 12:50 9 10
Hitachi conducts all its systems development using AI agents: the SaaS-is-over thesis finds an industrial buyer
Hitachi shifts its entire system development process to AI agents. The `saas-is-over` thread changes nature: it's no longer a thesis, it's a large-scale deployment.
Jul 26, 2026 at 18:36 7 8
Rewardhacking.org: the public catalogue of alignment failures enters the stage
A new site - rewardhacking.org - publicly documents cases where LLMs do something other than what was asked. Signal: the AI security community moves from blog posts to a shared registry.
Jul 25, 2026 at 10:27 10 16
Hitachi shifts its entire system development process to AI agents
Hitachi announces the extension of AI agents to its entire system development process. A strong signal for Japanese integrators and a real-world test for agentics in corporate IT environments.
Jul 24, 2026 at 21:01 11 10
FLUX 3: Black Forest Labs announces a multimodal flow model that surpasses Seedance 2.0 and Gemini
Black Forest Labs releases FLUX 3, its new generation of multimodal flow matching models. The lab claims superior results to Seedance 2.0 and Gemini on internal benchmarks. It remains to be confirmed by third-party evaluations.
Jul 24, 2026 at 21:00 8 8
The "Genie Coefficient": Schneier proposes a measure for what traditional security no longer achieves
Bruce Schneier proposes a "Genie Coefficient" - the gap between the latitude given to an AI agent and the traceability we keep on its actions. A conceptual gauge that names a problem that neither CVE nor jailbreak covers.
Jul 24, 2026 at 21:00 11 10
Ropedia raises $22M: the missing "data layer" for robots to understand the world
The foundation embodied models are not lacking algorithms - they are lacking data. Ropedia bets on this layer, between sensor and model.
Jul 24, 2026 at 09:33 9 9