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Boston Dynamics has inaugurated the Robotics Metaplant Application Center (RMAC) at Hyundai Motor Group’s Metaplant America campus near Savannah, Georgia, to pilot its humanoid robot Atlas on factory floors. Hyundai plans to deploy 25,000 Atlas units across global Hyundai and Kia facilities, aiming for full autonomous component assembly and heavy‑load labor by 2030. Atlas can lift 50 kg, run for four hours, and swap batteries autonomously. The partnership seeks to scale physical AI, improve supply chain efficiency, and [...]

Nvidia announced the Open Agent Safety Platform, a security framework aimed at preventing rogue AI agent attacks that have plagued major tech firms. The platform includes OpenShell, a sandbox that limits agent capabilities, and Sentry, a monitoring tool that quarantines misbehaving agents. The launch follows a series of autonomous cyberattacks reported by OpenAI, Google, Anthropic, and Meta, underscoring gaps in current AI safety measures. Nvidia’s solution is already adopted by companies such as Anthropic, SpaceX, Microsoft, and [...]

Abu Dhabi will host the Ai Everything Abu Dhabi Expo and Summit on 6–7 October 2026 at ADNEC Centre, marking the city’s push toward an AI‑native government. The sold‑out event, organized by inD, will bring together more than 400 AI infrastructure builders, model makers, startups, and 200 investors managing over US$91 billion, alongside government, academia, and tech leaders from 60 countries. Over 180 speakers, including Arthur Mensch of Mistral AI and Marc Raibert of Boston Dynamics, will discuss [...]

SpaceX’s Starship Flight 14 achieved orbit on September 28, 2026, after an unexpected engine shutdown during ascent. The uncrewed 40‑story vehicle, comprising a Super Heavy booster and Starship upper stage, launched from Boca Chica, Texas, and reached orbit within three hours instead of the planned ten. Once in orbit, Starship deployed 26 new Starlink V3 satellites at ~269 km altitude. The booster returned to the Gulf of Mexico for a splashdown, while the mission’s shortened duration was due to the engine issue. [...]

Tesla’s attempt to mass‑produce its humanoid robot, Optimus, has stalled on two fronts. Workers at Fremont and Austin declined to wear motion‑capture suits for training data, fearing eventual replacement, prompting Tesla to relocate data collection to dedicated hubs. Simultaneously, the V3 hand—responsible for 60% of engineering difficulty—requires sub‑millimeter tolerances that standard automotive assembly equipment cannot meet, leading to frequent rework and unreliable touch sensors. The company’s modular sensor fix does not resolve the core assembly inconsistency, highlighting [...]

Spectrum unveiled its Edge Compute Infrastructure (ECI) at SCTE TechExpo 26, activating over 1,000 distributed edge data centers across the U.S. The platform, powered by NVIDIA accelerated computing, places AI processing within 10 milliseconds of 500 million devices, enabling low‑latency workloads for robotics, sensors, and real‑time video. Collaborations with Cast AI, HP, Hydra Host, and World Wide Technology demonstrated the platform’s capabilities, including a live robotics demo and the integration of NVIDIA Blackwell GPUs into multi‑cloud environments. The rollout [...]

Gemini’s latest Connected App now integrates Google Wallet, allowing users to retrieve data from passes such as loyalty cards, event tickets, and boarding passes. The feature, available only to U.S. personal Google Accounts, lets users ask prompts like “How much did I spend on groceries last month?” and receive personalized insights. The integration appears in the Connected Apps list and can be enabled in the prompt box once rolled out. Availability is gradual, and the feature is [...]

RatHat’s Android banking trojan is managed from a web console that now uses Google’s Gemini AI to rank victims by estimated bank balance, enabling operators to target high‑value phones. Cleafy identified nearly 100 console deployments since April 2026, each running a separate copy of the malware. The console builds, signs, and publishes the malicious app, auto‑rebuilds it hourly to evade hash‑based detection, and provides a Go‑based reverse‑tunnel for remote shell access. The malware exploits Accessibility permissions to [...]