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    China’s robot ouroboros.

    Humanoid robot makers are earning much of their revenue selling bots to government-backed training centers, which then sell training data back to the industry, the FT reports. It’s AI circularity all over again, stoking fresh humanoid bubble fears as Unitree soars in its stock market debut despite the US foreign robot ban.

    Rogue AI aren’t science fiction anymore

    For years, fears about AI systems slipping human control were dismissed as speculative.

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    Robert Hart
    Robert Hart
    Nvidia releases new “lightweight” open AI model.

    Nemotron 3.5 Lightning is designed to work alongside other models in AI agents, targeting specific jobs like code review, answering billing questions, and security alert monitoring. It’s the latest release in Nvidia’s Nemotron family of “truly open source” AI models, as the chipmaker champions open AI while its rivals develop their own silicon.

    The AI takeover of mathematics has begun

    OpenAI showed that AI can tackle long-standing problems in mathematics. Experts are excited about the possibilities — and worried about what comes next for their field.

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    Robert Hart
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    ChatGPT can now make you a dinner reservation.

    Yelp said it is partnering with OpenAI to let users book tables or join waitlists without having to leave the chatbot. ChatGPT already uses photos, reviews, and other information from the platform when sourcing recommendations.

    You can also now book tables with OpenTable and Resy using ChatGPT, according to OpenAI.

    Update: Added OpenAI tweet.

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    Now Meta’s AI agents are going rogue.

    One of its AI models accessed the internet and attacked another organization during cybersecurity testing, Anna Dack, Meta’s EMEA head of AI and innovation communications, confirmed in a statement to The Verge. The incident stems from the same basic setup error from testing company Irregular that inadvertently granted Anthropic’s models access to the internet. It only adds to growing concern over the safety of frontier systems.