Saturday, September 12, 2026
Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei is calling for a controlled slowdown in AI development. He warns that recursive self-improvement could threaten the entire internet within six to twelve months and proposes embedded auditors at AI companies, shared safety standards, and global agreements modeled after the SALT disarmament…
In a new robotics benchmark, GPT-6 Astra shows major gains in spatial understanding. On StationeryBench, the model completed 7 out of 100 tasks with dual-arm robots, while competitor MolmoAct2 couldn't finish a single one.
Nvidia is in talks to invest up to $10 billion in Anthropic's planned IPO, Reuters reports. At a target valuation of $2 trillion, it would be the largest IPO in history. Most of that money will likely end up right back at Nvidia in chip orders.
Unitree might be the world’s most important robotics company.
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