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Beyond Chatbots: World Models Are Teaching AI to Simulate Reality
The next big wave in AI isn't about language. It's about teaching machines to understand how the physical world actually works, and the race is already on.
Australia's Government Faces a Deadline on AI: Jobs, Copyright and a Prime Minister's Speech
A landmark address this Wednesday could shape how Australia regulates AI. Workers, artists and investors are all watching.
Albanese to call AI a turning point as big as renewable energy, but artists get no copyright answers
Australia's prime minister will address AI policy in a Sydney speech this week, comparing the technology's rise to the renewable energy shift. Creative industries hoping for copyright protection news will have to keep waiting.
Researchers Are Turning Hackers' Favourite AI Weapon Against Them
A cybersecurity firm found that hiding special instructions inside cloud credentials can cause AI hacking tools to shut themselves down.
AI Is Getting Expensive, and the Executives Paying for It Are Starting to Notice
A major survey finds nearly a third of senior business leaders cannot track what AI is costing them. A new forecast says AI coding tools could soon cost more per developer than the developer's salary.
A Chinese robotics startup wants to build the 'recipe' that gives robots general intelligence
X Square Robot is open-sourcing an AI stack that aims to do for physical robots what large language models did for text. The approach is interesting. The independent evidence is still thin.
Towns Are Fighting Back Against AI Data Centers, and They Are Winning Some
From a two-person protest in Ireland to 833 active opposition groups across America, the pushback against AI's power-hungry building boom has gone mainstream.
Senator Markey's AI Bills Target Hiring Bots, Water Use, and Workplace Tracking
A package of four bills introduced in July 2025 would force companies to disclose how automated systems affect job seekers, workers, and local communities.
Chinese Robotics Firm AI² Robotics Raises $735 Million at a $2.8 Billion Valuation
The Shenzhen company bets that wheeled robots, not walking ones, will win the race to put AI-driven machines on factory floors.
XTEND wins US patent for drones that find their own way to a target
The defence robotics firm secured US Patent No. 12,222,735 for navigation software that lets unmanned aircraft head toward a goal without a pilot steering every move.
The Welding Robot That Teaches Itself the Perfect Path
Path Robotics uses AI vision to guide welding torches in real time, and it's now sending robot dogs into shipyards. Here's what that means for the factory floor.
Train the Robot in a Fake World First, Then Send It Into the Real One
Before a robot ever touches a warehouse shelf or a factory floor, it can spend thousands of hours learning inside a computer-built copy of that environment. Here is why that matters.
A New Robot Safety Rule Is Coming to Europe. Half the Industry Is Not Ready.
An updated international safety standard for industrial robots becomes mandatory in Europe around 2027. Big players are prepared. Many mid-sized and Chinese suppliers are not.
The robotics programme that bans adults from touching the robots
Botball gives every student the same box of parts, teaches real coding languages at elementary-school age, and bars adults from the competition floor. Here is how it works and why girl participation is notably higher than the industry norm.
WTWH Media renames itself Arrowfly as it grows beyond trade publishing
The Cleveland company behind The Robot Report and RoboBusiness shed a two-decade-old name to signal its shift from niche trade press to a broader B2B media group.
The Challenges Awaiting Andy Burnham as the New UK Prime Minister
From welfare reform to geopolitics, Andy Burnham steps into Downing Street carrying a heavy load of unresolved problems.
Bank of England gains power to regulate Amazon and Google cloud services from Monday
New rules mean the UK's central bank can directly oversee the tech companies that keep British banking running, cutting the risk of outages that could freeze millions of accounts.
Meta Pulls Its New AI Image Tool After Users and a Hollywood Union Call It a Privacy Problem
A feature that let anyone generate images using photos from public Instagram accounts lasted just days before Meta quietly shut it down.
Which jobs are hardest for AI to replace, and how do you land one?
From classrooms to courtrooms, some careers look a lot safer than others. Here is what workers and experts told The Guardian about building a future the algorithms cannot easily automate.
Apple Sues OpenAI Over Alleged Hardware Secret Theft
Apple accuses OpenAI's hardware chief of coaching recruits to smuggle out unreleased parts, prototypes and confidential files before jumping ship.
An AI 'actor' is getting her own feature film. Does that make you want to watch it?
Particle6's digital creation Tilly Norwood is headlining a movie called Misaligned. The project raises a question the press releases won't answer: what does human storytelling mean when the lead character has never been human?