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OpenAI Expands Robotics Research Toward AGI What’s Happening: OpenAI is ramping up its robotics division, signaling a renewed push to connect artificial intelligence with physical embodiment. The company has begun hiring roboticists, control theorists, and simulation experts to build systems that can interpret the physical world through touch, movement,

OpenAI Restructures For Profit And Clears Path To IPO What’s Happening: OpenAI officially transformed into a for-profit public benefit corporation, ending its nonprofit roots and positioning for an IPO. The OpenAI Foundation retains a 26–27% stake and board control, while Microsoft holds 27% and extended IP rights

Grokipedia Launches AI-Native Encyclopedia xAI released Grokipedia, intended as an AI-first alternative to Wikipedia. The initial version looks and reads strikingly similar to Wikipedia, with many entries adapted directly and editing largely disabled. “Fact-checking” leans on Grok rather than human editors, and the site labels itself v0.

Karpathy’s AI Agent Reality Check Former OpenAI and Tesla researcher Andrej Karpathy poured cold water on the agent hype cycle, arguing in a long interview that most current agent outputs are still “slop” (yay slop!) and that core gaps in intelligence, multimodality and continual learning mean the field likely

DeepMind Enters The Fusion Race Google’s DeepMind teamed up with Commonwealth Fusion Systems (CFS) to build Torax, an AI plasma-control system for the SPARC fusion reactor. Torax uses reinforcement learning to stabilize plasma hotter than 100 million °C, making millions of micro-adjustments per second to keep the

Google Upgrades Veo As The AI Video Race Shifts From Hype To Control Google rolled out Veo 3.1, positioning it as a filmmaker’s tool rather than a viral post generator. The update adds new creative controls - multi-image prompts (up to three for character consistency), start/end frame

Altman’s ‘Soft-Landing’ AGI Doctrine In an on-record conversation summarized by AI Secret, Sam Altman argues AGI won’t “explode” - it will quietly absorb into life via a personal AI subscription riding on massive, long-horizon compute. He frames Sora as an early world-model window: simulation quality

OpenAI Will Stop Saving Deleted Chat Logs (With Caveats) OpenAI won approval to stop retaining deleted and temporary ChatGPT conversations - a partial privacy win. However, some “deleted” chats may still be held temporarily when copyright or safety systems are triggered (for example, to investigate abuse). As Ars Technica wrote, "

Google Bets Big On Workplace Agents What happened: Google rolled out Gemini Enterprise, a single platform where non-technical employees can create and deploy AI agents that plug into company data. It bundles no-code builders, prebuilt assistants (research, coding, support), and an agent marketplace. Pricing lands at $30/user/

Jony Ive Envisions ‘Peaceful’ AI Hardware with OpenAI What’s new: Jony Ive and OpenAI are exploring 15–20 hardware concepts for a “family of devices” meant to fix our “uncomfortable” relationship with tech. Ive argues it’s absurd to ship AI through legacy products; Sam Altman says a “totally