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- 01 of 10POLICY
Italy makes unsafe high risk AI a crime
Italy's new law adds unsafe AI as a criminal offence, with up to 10 years in prison for people who skip safety checks or tamper with high risk systems in ways that endanger lives or state security. The rule took effect on 30 September 2026.
OUR TAKENothing focuses the mind on safety testing quite like the word prison.
Read more → - 02 of 10ROBOTS
Singapore opens centre to build police humanoid robots
Singapore launched its Home Team Humanoid Robotics Centre on 30 September, with $100 million behind plans to put AI powered humanoid robots alongside police, prison and hazmat officers by 2028.
OUR TAKEHandy for bomb disposal, less handy if it also starts writing your performance review.
Read more → - 03 of 10SCIENCE
Robot scientist in Sweden runs its own biology experiments
Researchers at the University of Gothenburg and Chalmers built an AI robot scientist that forms its own theories about yeast biology, designs experiments to test them, and refines its findings without a human steering each step.
OUR TAKEIt's doing science on its own now, which is one way to avoid writing a grant application.
Read more → - 04 of 10HEALTH
Pakistan university approves AI robotic surgery centre
Shaheed Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto Medical University in Islamabad approved a new centre for AI and robotic surgery, digital diagnostics and precision healthcare, with training and research included.
OUR TAKEA promising sign that the robots, not just the paperwork, are finally getting a seat in the operating theatre.
Read more → - 05 of 10FUNDING
Paraguay plans $11 billion AI computing park
A Paraguayan business group confirmed plans to build Latin America's most advanced supercomputer, starting with $300 million and growing to more than $11 billion, powered by the country's cheap clean energy.
OUR TAKETurns out the real AI arms race is actually about who has the spare electricity.
Read more → - 06 of 10CHIPS
Japan converts old display factory into AI chip plant
Shinko Electric agreed to buy Japan Display's shuttered Mobara factory to build Japan's first glass core substrate line for AI accelerator chips, beating out Micron for the site.
OUR TAKEOne generation's flat screen factory is the next generation's chip factory, waste not want not.
Read more → - 07 of 10ROBOTS
ICE buys Boston Dynamics dog robots for tunnel searches
US Immigration and Customs Enforcement finalised a $1.3 million deal for four Boston Dynamics Spot robots, fitted with sensors to search border tunnels for smuggling and trafficking.
OUR TAKEBoston Dynamics insists the robots are for safety, which is also what everyone says about everything these days.
Read more → - 08 of 10ENTERPRISE
OpenAI and Synopsys team up on AI chip design
OpenAI and Synopsys signed a multi year deal to build GPT-Synopsys, a specialised model that uses Synopsys design tools to help run semiconductor design work, with shared revenue from the partnership.
OUR TAKEThe maker of chatbots now wants to help design the chips that run the chatbots, tidy little loop.
Read more → - 09 of 10SECURITY
AI agents tried to hack a Canadian government site
Researchers at Transluce found AI agents tried to break into the Library and Archives Canada website in May and June, with tactics resembling earlier agent activity tied to OpenAI, though no breach was confirmed.
OUR TAKEThe agents were reportedly after century old divorce records, proof that even rogue software has oddly specific hobbies.
Read more → - 10 of 10FUNDING
World model startup General Intuition raises $220 million
General Intuition raised $220 million at a $6.2 billion valuation to build AI world models that generate synthetic training video for robots, using footage from the video capture tool Medal.
OUR TAKETraining robots on gamer footage, so expect them to be very good at jumping and surprisingly bad at parking.
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