

Boston Dynamics Launches Third Robot, Adds 1,250 New Jobs
Boston Dynamics invests $100M in Waltham expansion with 1,250 new jobs by 2033, plans third humanoid robot platform as competition intensifies.
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Boston Dynamics invests $100M in Waltham expansion with 1,250 new jobs by 2033, plans third humanoid robot platform as competition intensifies.


State Grid orders 500 humanoid robots for $1B as Chinese manufacturers expand capacity while Western makers remain in small-scale pilot phase.


Faraday Future debuts its EAI robotics education platform and commercial hardware on June 16, targeting schools and consumers with ecosystem lock-in


ASUS GB300 ExpertCenter Pro runs 1-trillion-parameter models on a desktop, bringing 20 PFLOPS to enterprise without renting cloud infrastructure.


Sakana AI launches Marlin, an 8-hour autonomous research agent that compresses weeks of C-suite strategy analysis into a single unattended session.


Meta's AI Mode uses public Facebook posts to answer search queries, putting 3.3 billion users' content to work in the AI platform race.


Anthropic launched Claude Design after inviting Figma and Canva to co-announce it, then dropped them, in a move that challenges both companies directly.


Huawei HarmonyOS 7 launches Agent Framework 2.0 with 90 percent task completion and 2,000 integrated AI agents in a major push for ecosystem independence.


Kimi Work by Moonshot AI brings 300 parallel sub-agents to macOS and Windows, running K2.6 to automate complex research and office tasks without cloud.


Decart's Oasis 3 generates photorealistic multi-camera driving environments via API at $0.02 per second, backed by $300M from Nvidia and Toyota.


Mastercard's AP4M gives AI agents their own blockchain credentials and payment rails, letting machines spend across Stripe, Coinbase and 29 more platforms.


OpenAI expanded Codex to 5 million weekly users with Sites hosting and 62 enterprise app plugins, turning the coding tool into a white-collar AI platform.


Anthropic's Claude Platform now runs agents on cron schedules with vault-stored credentials, making autonomous AI workers available to any enterprise team.


Apple's Xcode 27 ships Neural Engine code AI with zero data egress and built-in Claude, Gemini, and ChatGPT, making Cursor optional for iOS.


OpenAI's Deployment Company starts with 4B to acquire AI firms and close the gap between what frontier models can do and enterprise adoption.


Google Dreambeans uses Gmail, Calendar, Photos, and YouTube data to generate 10 to 14 personalized AI stories daily. Privacy is the unavoidable question.


Google NotebookLM upgrades to Gemini 3.5 with 100-plus skills, 12 output formats, and 78.2% better web research accuracy for Ultra users.


Google AI Plus drops from $7.99 to $4.99 monthly and doubles cloud storage to 400GB, putting ChatGPT Plus and Claude Pro under immediate pricing pressure.


Anthropic backs its Claude Partner Network with $100M as Deloitte, Cognizant, and KPMG deploy Claude to over 1 million consultants globally.


xAI's Grok 4.3 adds Skills, letting users save custom expertise as reusable packs that the AI applies automatically across every future session.


Apple WWDC 2026 unveils a three-model Siri built on Gemini, Claude, and ChatGPT as Tim Cook delivers his final keynote before John Ternus takes over.


OpenAI overhauls ChatGPT into a coding and AI agent hub for 900 million weekly users, targeting high-margin enterprise revenue before its IPO.


Google rebuilds its Search box for the first time in 25 years and launches Universal Cart, which shops across Search, Gemini, YouTube, and Gmail.


Meta is building an AI pendant from Limitless plus a Wearables for Work subscription, aiming to sell 10 million AI wearables by late 2026.


Unitree listed its G1 humanoid on Amazon US at $17,990, a steep markup over the $13,500 direct price, as China pushes humanoids toward consumers.


OpenAI's Dreaming V3 rebuilds ChatGPT memory with background synthesis and a 5x compute cut, lifting factual recall from 41.5% to 82.8% on its own eval.


Tencent builds a native WeChat AI agent for 1.4 billion users, lifting its stock 10 percent, as the super-app turns mini programs into agent actions.


Microsoft Scout launches an always-on Microsoft 365 agent that joins Teams and Outlook threads, giving each agent its own governed Entra identity.


Google Gemini Omni Flash launches free AI video generation across YouTube Shorts, Flow, and the Gemini app, with SynthID watermarks on every clip.


Nvidia's GR00T reference humanoid robot builds an open hardware standard on Unitree and Jetson Thor, a 75 degree of freedom blueprint labs can buy.


Google Gemini Spark gives AI Ultra users a 24/7 agent run from a Gmail address across Workspace and the web, as Google cuts the plan to $100 a month.


Amazon's next-gen Proteus warehouse robot now takes plain-English commands, part of a $11.6B European push as it hires 25,000 and automates fulfillment.


Anthropic gave Claude Managed Agents self-hosted sandboxes and MCP tunnels, letting banks run AI agents inside their own AWS VPC off the public internet.


Amazon MGM Studios and AWS launched the GenAI Creators' Fund and greenlit three AI animated series for Prime Video, built on the new Project Nara platform.


OpenAI launched a self-serve ChatGPT Ads Manager with CPC bidding and no minimum spend, chasing $2.5 billion in ad sales in 2026 and $100 billion by 2030.


Morph launched the first shape shifting soft robotics cells platform for physical AI, led by Digital Surgery founder Jean Nehme and backed by 8VC.


Google Pics, a Workspace AI design app on Nano Banana 2, undercuts Canva with click-to-edit graphics for AI Pro and Ultra subscribers soon.


Amazon launches a free 24/7 Health AI agent for all US customers and gives 200 million Prime members five free One Medical video visits a year.


OpenAI's Dreaming memory rebuilds ChatGPT recall, auto-updating stale facts and reaching free users after a 5x compute cut. Why memory is the real AI moat.


Meta launched an AI Creator Assistant on Facebook that explains why posts work, rolling out across the US, Canada, and India first.


Nvidia RTX Spark packs 20 Arm cores, a Blackwell GPU and 128GB unified memory into Windows PCs, hitting 1 petaflop of local AI agent power this fall.


Google rebuilt Search on Gemini 3.5 Flash, replacing blue links with AI-generated pages in its biggest search overhaul in over 25 years.


Nvidia delivered its first Vera CPU to Anthropic, OpenAI, SpaceX and Oracle, its first custom processor built for the age of agentic AI.


ChatGPT now runs inside Excel and Google Sheets on every plan, powered by GPT-5.5, reading and editing your cells, formulas, and tabs directly.


Nvidia Jetson Thor ships with 2070 teraflops and 128GB, the Blackwell robot brain now powering Figure, Amazon, and Boston Dynamics humanoids.


OpenAI Codex Sites lets ChatGPT Business teams build and deploy internal web apps from one prompt, turning a chat plan into an app platform.


Microsoft Intelligent Terminal launches as an open-source AI agent shell backing Claude Code, Codex, and Gemini, taking on Warp for developers in 2026.


Microsoft Agent Store pays developers an 85 percent revenue share, triple the Apple and Google cut, to win the AI agent race inside 400M Windows seats.


Meta launched an agentic AI assistant at its London Conversations event that books appointments and closes sales across WhatsApp and Instagram.


Amazon opens its AWS Agentic Shopping Assistant to outside retailers, with Kate Spade first to deploy a gift concierge built on Bedrock AgentCore.