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- Teaching a robot by correcting it, not by reward
- First electric container ship crosses the Pacific
- GPT-6.1 Sol brings flagship reasoning at half the price
- OpenAI splits the difference with GPT-6 Sol and Luna
- Inside the refusal circuit of a large language model
- Apple's first foldable iPhone is here
- OpenAI releases GPT-6 Astra, its most capable model yet
- A tandem solar cell crosses twenty-eight per cent
- Apple's M6 chip arrives on a two-nanometre process
- Two thousand humanoid robots hold their own Olympics
- Teach a robot a task from a single video
- Summer of agentic work: a labour market reckoning
- Samsung's foldables grow an Ultra
- DeepSeek raises prices: the price war has a price after all
- Apple sues OpenAI, and the AI hardware fight goes to court
- Shanghai hosts the AI summit that created a global body
- OpenAI previews GPT-5.6 Sol, a model aimed at the hardest work
- Predicting model scale with fifty questions instead of ten trillion
- A million optical neurons on one chip
- WWDC makes Apple's devices the interface
- First e-fuel plant opens its doors
- A synapse on a chip switches a million times lighter
- Europe's launchers come back in stages
- Google I/O bets that cheaper is the future
- DeepSeek V4 opens the million-token era at a discount
- Testing models at the frontier of human knowledge: Humanity's Last Exam
- GPT-5.5 makes agents the product
- Dragonfly is packed for Titan
- Chip controls tighten around the thinnest wafers
- Models are told to name their sources
- Implant that learned to listen
- An uncrewed ship lands on Mars
- Learning to reason in 13 parameters
- March was the month AI stopped being just models
- Gemini 3.1 Ultra is Google's answer to the agent era
- Quantum error correction stops being a promise
- Brussels issues its first fine under the AI Act
- First drug designed by an AI reaches the clinic
- GPT-5.4 arrives with a million-token memory
- Launch pads of Boca Chica never go quiet
- HBM4 arrives and memory prices go through the roof
- One year of the AI safety board: what the first rulings settled
- The year the robots stood up: humanoid machines meet the factory floor
- Flow matching for robots: one backbone, every body
- One model, one router: what GPT-5's unification says about the frontier
- DeepSeek R1: a reminder that intelligence is not the same as cost
- App that the court could not save
- NorthPole puts memory beside compute
- Google's Willow chip: a step towards quantum machines that matter
- Mamba: linear-time language models without attention
- Quantum annealing shows a scaling edge on spin glasses
- An octopus arm, rebuilt in silicone
- Transcribing speech on an analogue chip
- Teaching a model to grade its own homework
- Preference learning without the reward model