artificial intelligence News Latest artificial intelligence news and analysis — 164 articles tagged artificial intelligence on The Robotics Media.
Figure Hits 1,000th Figure 03 Off The BotQ Line In California — Aug 30, 2026 — Figure AI has manufactured its 1,000th Figure 03 humanoid at the BotQ facility in California, sustaining approximately one robot per hour and cementin...OpenAI expands ChatGPT for Teachers to 55 U.S. school systems — Aug 28, 2026 — OpenAI is adding 55 more U.S. school systems across 20 states to ChatGPT for Teachers, bringing the free program to over 300,000 K-12 educators throug...Agentrys Raises $24.5M For Agentic Design Automation Of Chips — Aug 28, 2026 — Agentrys, founded by former NVIDIA Research leader Mark Ren, has raised $24.5M across seed and pre-seed rounds to build an agent-driven chip design pl...CISA, NSA And FBI Warn Of AI-Generated Attacks On Siemens S7 PLCs — Aug 24, 2026 — Five U.S. agencies issued a joint advisory warning that threat actors are using AI-generated scripts to target internet-exposed Siemens S7 programmabl...Generalist AI Unveils GEN-1.5, A Robot Foundation Model That Learns From One Demo — Aug 23, 2026 — Generalist AI released GEN-1.5, an embodied foundation model that can learn new physical tasks from 3 to 12 seconds of demonstration data in-context,...Only 3 Of 1,357 FDA-Cleared AI Medical Devices Tested On Patient Outcomes — Aug 23, 2026 — A PLOS Digital Health analysis finds that just 34 of 1,357 FDA-authorized AI/ML medical devices are linked to registered clinical trials, and only thr...Acorn Robot Lands Angel Round To Push "Zero-Data" Physical AI Model — Aug 23, 2026 — Beijing startup Acorn Robot closed an angel round led by CM Venture Capital and Nio Capital and released Natus AGE-0, a tactile-first foundation model...Brazil Unveils $444M AI Push With Huawei, iFlytek and US Tech Partners — Aug 23, 2026 — Brazil announced roughly $444 million in artificial intelligence investments spanning US and Chinese partners, including a $250 million supercomputing...Alibaba Unveils Qwen-UI-Agent, GUI Model Beats GPT-5.6 And Claude 4.8 — Aug 22, 2026 — Alibaba's Qwen-UI-Agent, a GUI-focused foundation model, tops MobileWorld, OSWorld-Verified and WebArena while outscoring GPT-5.6 Sol and Claude Opus...Mariana Minerals Bags $310M Series B At $1.5B To Scale Autonomous Mines — Aug 20, 2026 — Mariana Minerals raised $310M in a Khosla-led Series B at a $1.5B valuation to expand its Copper One and Lithium One projects and MarianaOS AI mining...Wolfspeed Q4 FY26 Revenue Hits $150M As AI Data-Center Sales Double YoY — Aug 20, 2026 — Wolfspeed reported $150M Q4 fiscal 2026 revenue as AI data-center silicon carbide demand more than doubled year over year, offsetting softer automotiv...Amazon Prime Air To Reach Nearly 500 US Cities By Year-End — Aug 19, 2026 — Amazon plans a sixfold expansion of Prime Air by end of 2026, taking drone delivery from 11 metro sites to almost 500 cities and towns.Bristol And NC State Charge Up Liquid-Metal Droplets To Boost Soft Robot Muscles — Aug 17, 2026 — University of Bristol and North Carolina State University engineers have shown that a small electrical charge applied to a liquid-metal droplet can dr...xAI Ships Grok Imagine Image 2.0 With Region Editing — Aug 16, 2026 — xAI shipped Grok Imagine Image 2.0 on August 7, 2026 as the new Quality Mode on grok.com/imagine and Grok apps, adding region-level editing, up to fiv...Apple Trains Own China LLM With Alibaba To Power Apple Intelligence — Aug 16, 2026 — Reuters says Apple has built a bespoke China-only large language model with Alibaba's help to power Apple Intelligence on iPhones sold on the mainland...Manus Returns To Independence As China Forces Meta Deal Unwind — Aug 15, 2026 — Butterfly Effect's Manus AI agent will return to operating independently after China ordered Meta to unwind its $2B acquisition of the Singapore-domic...Palo Alto Networks Puts OpenAI's Daybreak Red Inside Unit 42 — Aug 13, 2026 — Palo Alto Networks says its Unit 42 team will run OpenAI's GPT-5.6-Cyber and other frontier cyber models inside customer environments to hunt exploita...Sundar Pichai Says Gemini App Has Crossed 1 Billion Monthly Users — Aug 13, 2026 — Sundar Pichai says Google's Gemini app now has more than 1 billion monthly active users, catching ChatGPT's mark and generating 150 million images a d...Blacksmith Nets $45M Series B As Peak XV Bets On AI Code Validation — Aug 13, 2026 — Blacksmith's Series B, led by Peak XV Partners at a $550M valuation, funds the compute layer where AI-written code gets built, tested and approved bef...Britain Bets On 30-Person Cosine To Build Its Sovereign Frontier AI — Aug 12, 2026 — The UK is throwing government weight behind Cosine, a 30-person London lab, as its sovereign answer to OpenAI, Anthropic, Google DeepMind and Meta.