AI

OpenAI now sells Codex as an open agent harness; DeepSeek DSH hit 173k stars in days. The AI battleground moved down to the runtime layer.

GPU vendors, cloud firms and frontier labs are buying chip companies — via equity, long-term deals and custom silicon. Compute moved to a quota system.

Many WRC 2026 robots come from Chinese county towns. ~70% of a humanoid's cost sits in actuators and reducers; China holds 63% of the supply chain.

DeepSeek bills weekends all-day at off-peak valley rates, signaling inference is becoming a time-priced utility.

Why AI can't speak biology: a Cell viewpoint argues the bottleneck is process, not scale — and proposes causal world models.

Broadcom is borrowing $60B+ and Nvidia built a $500B platform to fund AI data centers — compute itself is becoming collateral. Here is what it means.

Anonymous model Ox Alpha beat top coding models on a DeepSWE subset, with forensics pointing to Zhipu GLM-5.x pre-launch.

Nvidia will raise AI server prices over 15% for early 2027 as memory costs surge, adding up to $5B per 1GW data center.

Ads migrate into hardware and AI answers as traffic turns agent-generated. The attention economy is relocating, not dying.

WRC 2026: five robotics executives on the real mass production bottleneck - 99.99% reliability and demand fit