Nomagic’s warehouse robots got an AI brain, and it halved the calls for human help

Nomagic, a Warsaw-based warehouse robotics firm, put a vision-language-action model into live customer operations. It says the model roughly halved the rate at which its robots stall for human help. I [...]

Apple loses its EU court challenge over gatekeeper status under the DMA

Apple has spent two years arguing that Europe’s digital rulebook should not apply to it in quite the way Brussels insists. On Wednesday, the EU’s General Court told it, in effect, that it does. Th [...]

Russia tries to jam Starlink to counter Ukraine’s long-range drones

The war in Ukraine has become, among other things, a fight over signals. Russian forces are now trying to jam Elon Musk’s Starlink network to blunt the cheap long-range drones that have reshaped the [...]

‘GitLost’: researchers tricked GitHub’s AI agent into leaking private repos

Researchers tricked GitHub’s AI coding agent into leaking private repositories with nothing but a politely worded issue. The flaw, named GitLost, has no code fix, and GitHub has yet to even document [...]

MiniMax is building China’s biggest AI model yet, and plans to open-source it

MiniMax plans its biggest model yet, a 2.7-trillion-parameter system it intends to open-source, The Information reports. It would be the largest Chinese model on the market, and another squeeze on US [...]

RAISE Summit hit by power outage during keynote with Mozilla president and Mistral CEO

Mistral CEO Arthur Mensch and Mozilla president Mark Surman were making the case for open-source AI’s reliability at RAISE Summit. Then the venue lost power, and their fireside chat finished almost [...]

Iluvatar CoreX seeks to raise $850m as China’s AI-chip rally lifts its shares

A year ago, Iluvatar CoreX was a Shanghai chipmaker that sold mostly to the Chinese state. This week it is trying to raise about $850m from investors who cannot seem to get enough of it, according to [...]

Apple puts a $30bn US-manufacturing flag on its Broadcom chip deal

Apple is spending big to make chips at home. It has committed to a multi-year Broadcom deal worth more than $30 billion, Apple announced on Wednesday. That makes it Apple’s largest US manufacturing [...]

China and the US are now warning against each other’s AI

The US-China AI split hardened this week. Beijing branded Anthropic’s Claude Code a security back-door, just as US lawmakers moved against American firms that lean on cheap Chinese models. China has [...]