WSJ reports Foundation Future Industries is testing its Phantom MK-1 humanoid with the US military, including pilots with Ukrainian forces and the US Air Force. ~10 units deployed so far (~$150K each). Current roles: logistics, recon, inspection. Where does this go next?

Mecka AI pays people to record themselves doing everyday tasks, coffee, car repairs, and turns it into training data for robots. Reportedly nearing a raise at close to a $500M valuation, targeting $100M ARR by end of 2026. Training data might be robotics' real bottleneck.

Skild AI hit $100M ARR just 10 months after its first commercial robot deployment. Its S1 model learns new tasks from one demo video, no retraining. Now running with 60+ customers, including NVIDIA, Foxconn, and Sumitomo Wiring Systems. Fast ramp for physical automation.

Superhuman acquired Fathom, the AI meeting notetaker with 400K+ monthly users. It records meetings automatically and answers questions from your call history, plus plugs into ChatGPT, Claude, Slack, HubSpot, and more. Would you trust an AI to remember your follow-ups?

An AI browser called Strawberry demoed 12 named AI agents splitting up and running a business from one prompt: "Make me a million dollars." The revenue number on screen is their own demo claim, not an audited result. Trust it, or still theater?

GPT-6 Astra directed a robot arm to paint the Golden Gate Bridge. It checked the canvas after each try, judged how close it was, and adjusted the next pass. Attempt one: blue smears. Attempt four: an actual bridge. Would you trust an AI to grade its own work?

Unitree open-sourced the AI model behind its G1 humanoid: one 6B-parameter policy, 64 different chores, laundry to toothpaste, trained on 2,500 hours of real robot data. Real-time footage, no speed-up. Would you want this doing chores in your house yet? #Unitree #G1

Galbot built a humanoid, ET1, that played live tennis rallies against humans at the World Humanoid Robot Games. 48 degrees of freedom in the body, 24 in the hands. Still a prototype, targeting around 95K. Would you trust it with your backhand? #ET1 #humanoidrobot

South Korea built a humanoid that shakes hands like a person, running on domestic precision reducers instead of imported parts. KIMM is targeting a full release in April 2027. Would you trust a robot built entirely from local parts? #KAIROS #humanoidrobot

A former Spotify exec opened a vinyl bar in Shibuya where you remix the song playing in the room, dragging stems, tweaking reverb and pitch, no AI prompting involved. Would you rather remix a track live or just hit play?

This robotic fish has no propeller. NYU built it so the motor and tail stay the same at every size, just swap the tail. Tested at 0.6m, 1.1m, and 2.9m in a creek, a stream, and Lake Geneva. Would a fish robot freak you out in a lake?

Anthropic just released Claude Fable 5.1, an AI model built to work for hours without falling apart. It handles long proofs, sprawling contracts, whole codebases, and reads papers to design its own experiments. Would you trust it to run research alone?

An AI agent just became the #2 app in the US. Meta's Muse doesn't just chat, it runs errands: picks an outfit, books movie tickets, plans a running route. Each tester's agent even gets its own name. Would you let one of these book your weekend for you?

A drone startup built by people who armed Ukraine's battlefield is closing in on a $5B valuation. UForce runs boats, robots, and drones off one system, and it's raising $500M to scale it. Would you bet on it being the next $5B defense company?

Zoox is trying to buy its way into San Francisco before Waymo locks up the city. Free rides, SFMOMA partnerships, influencer deals. Meanwhile the numbers aren't close: Zoox runs ~100 robotaxis to Waymo's ~4,000, and 10K weekly rides to Waymo's 500K+.

One sentence typed into an AI search bar came back as a working dashboard. Would you trust an AI's read on 700 customer calls over your own gut?

A fashion brand built a robot just so someone could disobey it on camera. DESI84 moves like Tesla's Optimus. Vivian Wilson, Elon Musk's estranged daughter, spends the whole ad refusing to follow it. Clever commentary on automation, or just a very well-dressed gimmick?

OpenAI says an unreleased model ran 10,000 AI agents for 88 hours and produced a proposed solution to Navier-Stokes, a 160-year-old math problem with a $1M prize. GPT-6 Astra, the model you can actually download, is a separate, smaller release.