Agility Robotics has unveiled Digit 5, a humanoid designed to detect nearby people and work alongside them without the physical safety barriers used by traditional automation.
ANYbotics, dormakaba and LEGIC have tested secure digital credentials that let an ANYmal robot pass through controlled doors during autonomous inspections at an Irish power station.
Figure says its Figure 03 humanoid completed household tasks across 30 previously unseen homes without collecting training data or adapting the model inside them.
Small UK food and craft businesses are being targeted by convincing festival impersonation scams as police record a 395% rise in fraud reports where victims identified AI as a factor.
London AI startup Mantic beat every human participant in the Summer 2026 Metaculus Cup and has raised $25 million to develop its forecasting technology.
Spirit AI says natural-language robot control could reach a major milestone by mid-2027 as around 1,000 contractors collect human movement data across China.
Crusoe has raised $3.9 billion at a $30.9 billion valuation and says its contracted AI data-centre and cloud capacity now exceeds 6GW, with around 1GW operational.
Anthropic says a general-purpose Claude research model optimised more than 30 biomolecular AI models in under four weeks, making them roughly four times faster on average.
OpenAI says Astra for Law achieved 54% overall correctness on a private legal-research evaluation. The more important test is whether lawyers can verify AI-produced work faster than producing it from scratch.
AI errors have surfaced in at least 1,395 US court cases. The deeper problem is no longer hallucination alone, but professional workflows that allow unverified AI output to reach courts.
