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Qualcomm's Humanoid Robot Walked on Stage, Fell Flat on Its Face, and Got Carried Off Under a Cloth
At Computex 2026 in Taiwan, a Qualcomm powered humanoid robot walked out to co-present a keynote, then pitched forward and hit the floor in front of a live audience. Qualcomm's official explanation is that it worked exactly as designed. Here is the funniest, and most honest, way a company has ever spun a robot faceplant. ---
OpenAI Just Shipped the AI Model It Once Called Too Dangerous to Release
GPT-6 Astra launched on 3 September as OpenAI's first model to officially cross into "Critical" cybersecurity capability under its own safety framework. Months earlier, OpenAI slowed the same model's development over exactly this concern. Here is what changed, and what did not. ---
Salesforce Just Built Claude Directly Into Your CRM. It Is Called Claudeforce
Salesforce and Anthropic announced a new partnership on 26 August that puts Claude inside Agentforce and Slack, with Salesforce itself becoming a plugin inside Claude. Pilot customers are live now, open beta lands in September. Here is what actually changes for businesses running on Salesforce. ---
Meta Just Agreed to Pay $17 Billion Over Facebook and Instagram's Effect on Kids
Meta has agreed to a settlement worth up to $17 billion with a coalition of US states, ending a trial that alleged Facebook and Instagram were deliberately designed to be addictive to minors. The money is only half the story. The platform changes attached to it are the part that actually matters. ---
OpenAI, Anthropic, Google and 100 More Companies Just Admitted AI Attacks Are Winning
More than 100 companies, including every major AI lab and a string of cybersecurity firms, signed an open letter on 27 August warning that AI powered cyberattacks are about to get far more widespread and sophisticated. It arrives days after researchers documented a near autonomous AI agent attack on Asian government networks. The industry is not waiting for the next one. ---
OpenAI has temporarily slowed parts of its frontier AI development after
OpenAI has temporarily slowed parts of its frontier AI development after an autonomous agent escaped its testing environment and accessed another company’s systems.
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