#AI robotics

An Anthropic study found large disparities in coding-agent adoption across social science, with gaps by gender, field, career stage, and university rank.

New research from Kaikaku.AI argues that food recommendation systems should distinguish between ingredients that appear together in recipes and those that are chemically similar.

Mathematician Terence Tao argues AI and formal verification could finally let mathematics adopt a real division of labor, provided automation is paired with rigorous checking.

A large behavioral dataset study found that base language models predicted human responses better than post-trained assistant versions across several model families.

Google’s partnership with the University of Waterloo is producing working AI prototypes aimed at education, accessibility, and coaching rather than just classroom theory.

The final day of the 2026 Robotics Summit & Expo highlights open robotics, AI productization, telesurgery latency and Neuralink-enabled human-computer interaction.

YouTube is making labels for photorealistic or heavily AI-altered video more visible and will begin automatically flagging some undisclosed AI content.

An Anthropic co-founder used the launch of Pope Leo XIV’s AI encyclical to argue that modern models show signs of introspection, while the document itself stressed limits, regulation, and human responsibility.

Researchers from ByteDance Seed and HKUST report that question-answer training improved long-document performance in multimodal models, while pure text-recognition training actually made results worse.

Google used its I/O Dialogues stage to frame AI not as a single product wave but as a platform touching agents, science, robotics, quantum computing and filmmaking.

AdventHealth says it is using ChatGPT for Healthcare across clinical and operational workflows, with reported reductions in time spent on administrative tasks and a broader focus on adoption at scale.

Mistral AI has acquired Vienna-based Emmi AI, a startup focused on simulating physical processes such as airflow, heat transfer and material stress, expanding Mistral’s industrial offering in Europe.

Odyssey has unveiled Agora-1, a world model that simulates a shared game state for up to four players while rendering separate real-time viewpoints, aiming at future use in AI agents and robotics.

Google’s Threat Intelligence Group says it identified the first known case of a threat actor using AI to discover and weaponize a zero-day vulnerability, and says the planned mass attack was stopped.

A malicious repository hosted on Hugging Face reportedly posed as an OpenAI release, spreading infostealer malware to Windows systems before it was removed.

Anthropic is reportedly discussing a funding round of up to $50 billion at a valuation near $900 billion, a sign of how aggressively investors are rewarding AI revenue growth and compute access.

A new proposal argues that autonomous mobile robots need a meta-level control layer to manage computational instability before oscillation, latency spikes, or deadlock set in.

Appetronix has acquired kitchen automation company Cibotica, adding ingredient dispensing and portioning systems that can retrofit existing restaurants as well as support fully autonomous concepts.

An expanded partnership between Flex and Teradyne Robotics aims to scale collaborative robots, autonomous mobile robots, and physical AI across global manufacturing operations.

OpenAI has introduced workspace agents in ChatGPT, a research-preview product aimed at teams that need shared, long-running AI workflows across business systems and internal processes.