AI & Technology News The AI & Technology category at The Robotics Media covers artificial intelligence research, machine learning breakthroughs, and the software and hardware powering modern robotics. Readers find reporting on foundation models, computer vision, autonomous systems, chips and sensors, plus industry news from AI labs, startups, and major technology companies. Coverage includes product launches, funding rounds, research papers, and policy developments shaping AI and robotics.
Microsoft Rebuilds Copilot Around Persistent Agents With Home, Code And Autopilot — Sep 27, 2026 — Microsoft is rebuilding Copilot around three persistent agent experiences — Home, Code and Autopilot — backed by a new Copilot Managed Runtime, a Copi...Anthropic Says Claude Cracked A Nine-Loop Yang-Mills Amplitude, Beating A 2023 Human Record — Sep 27, 2026 — Anthropic said on 25 September that Claude Fable 5.1, running on ~96 CPUs for a week and $100-$2,000 of compute, computed the six-particle scattering...NYC Council Rolls Out 10-Bill AI Package With Kill Switches And Whistleblower Bounties — Sep 27, 2026 — Speaker Julie Menin unveiled a 10-bill package on 25 September that would force AI companies operating in New York City to install kill switches, subm...Q-CTRL clocks 12x speedup on IBM Quantum Nighthawk R2 with Fire Opal — Sep 27, 2026 — Q-CTRL's Fire Opal stack cut a 60-qubit fermionic simulation from 4 min 25 s on IBM Heron R3 to 23 s on Nighthawk R2 — a 12x speedup and more than 400...Hyundai E&C races to build Korea's first commercial AI data center in Pohang — Sep 27, 2026 — Hyundai Engineering & Construction has broken ground on a 40MW liquid-cooled AI data center in Pohang, using the first fully prefabricated concrete st...White House Asks OpenAI And Anthropic To Hold Back Models From UK AISI — Sep 26, 2026 — The White House has asked OpenAI and Anthropic to delay giving the UK AI Security Institute pre-release access to two new frontier models until a US s...BrainChip Puts Akida AKD1500 On A PCIe Card So Any Desktop Can Run Edge AI — Sep 26, 2026 — BrainChip drops its Akida AKD1500 neuromorphic silicon on a plug-and-play PCIe card, aiming to move edge-AI evaluation from lab benches to any worksta...Perceptron Ships Mk1.5, An Egocentric Physical-AI Model At 25x Lower Cost — Sep 26, 2026 — Perceptron's Mk1.5 multimodal reasoning model lands on OpenRouter and AWS Marketplace at $0.15/$1.50 per million tokens, targeting drones, quadrupeds...Alibaba Ships Qwen-Audio 3.1, Cuts Voice API Prices By Up To 95% — Sep 26, 2026 — Alibaba's five-model Qwen-Audio 3.1 stack undercuts ElevenLabs and OpenAI Realtime pricing, adds ASR-Next speaker ID and TTS-Next single-pass mixed au...Google Rolls Out Gemini Call For Me To Pixel 11 In The US — Sep 26, 2026 — Gemini's new Call for Me feature books tables, navigates phone menus and handles hold times for Pixel 11 owners on a paid Gemini plan.General Robotics Bets On Modular Intelligence, Not One Robot Brain — Sep 26, 2026 — CTO Sai Vemprala says its GRID platform composes specialized skills across robot bodies instead of chasing a single foundation model.PrismML Ports 1-Bit Bonsai LLM To Qualcomm Snapdragon Smart Glasses — Sep 26, 2026 — PrismML, an AI lab founded by Caltech researchers and advised by UC Berkeley's Ion Stoica, unveiled a Qualcomm Snapdragon AR1 Gen 1 build of its 2B-pa...Infleqtion Hits 30 Entangled Logical Qubits On Sqale, A Fault-Tolerance Milestone — Sep 25, 2026 — NYSE-listed Infleqtion says its Sqale neutral-atom quantum computer produced 30 fully entangled logical qubits from just 80 physical atoms, backed by...Skild AI's S1 Robot Brain Taught Itself Football In 140 Simulated Years — Sep 25, 2026 — Skild AI trained its S1 robotics foundation model to play four-a-side football through 140 simulated years of self-play in NVIDIA Isaac Sim, then tran...Alibaba Unveils AgentCore And Agent Native Cloud At Apsara 2026 — Sep 25, 2026 — At Apsara 2026, Alibaba Cloud unveiled AgentCore, Agent Native Cloud and a stack of new infrastructure - HPN 8.0 Pro, next-gen CPFS and OpenLake - bui...MIT's Self-Recovering Robot Optics Lab Aligns A Laser Cavity In 30 Minutes — Sep 25, 2026 — An MIT team's seven-joint robot rebuilds and stabilizes a laser cavity in 50 autonomous maneuvers, cutting a job that usually takes graduate students...Xiaomi open-sources MiMo-V2.6 omnimodal AI atop open-weights leaderboard — Sep 24, 2026 — Xiaomi released the MiMo-V2.6 family of open-weight omnimodal models led by Pro, Flash and Pro-UltraSpeed, topping the Artificial Analysis open-weight...NVIDIA Ships Isaac ROS 5.0 With Agentic Workflows And 5.5x Faster Pose Tracking — Sep 24, 2026 — NVIDIA's Isaac ROS 5.0 adds AI-agent development skills, ROS 2 Lyrical and Ubuntu 24.04 support, and a FoundationPose library that estimates object po...OpenAI, Anthropic And Hugging Face Brief U.N. Security Council On AI Safety — Sep 24, 2026 — Altman, Amodei and Delangue brief the U.N. Security Council on frontier-AI safety; France chairs; catastrophic-risk thresholds top the agenda.Google Ships Gemini 3.8 Flash TTS, 2,000+ Voices And SynthID Watermarks — Sep 24, 2026 — Google's Gemini 3.8 Flash TTS ships 2,000+ voices, promptable voice design and SynthID watermarks; Flash-Lite drops price another 50%.