The California State Athletic Commission intervened when it saw a human facing off with a humanoid robot inside the fighting ring.

U.S. Army soldiers are training to assemble drones and 3D-print bomb casings for field use.
AI Robotics company Figure found a creative way of decommissioning its old F.02 fleet without having to allocate resources for difficult and time-consuming disassembly.
An AI engineer used GPT-6 Astra to reveal the contents of a cipher that hadn’t been read since the Napoleonic Wars. The task was initiated with a single image and prompt, and took just six hours from start to finish.
An Iranian-Turkish man has been extradited from Montenegro to the U.S. over his alleged role in a hacking campaign that targeted hundreds of universities, companies, and government agencies and stole more than 31 TB of academic data.

Microsoft is bringing nature-inspired landscaping to more than 20 data center sites as critics question its motives.
AI “torture chamber” draws vast online criticism, and a corresponding amount of ridicule — tech newbies and AI evangelists go nuts anthropomorphizing an LLM

Carlos Antelo’s open-source ldraw-nova lets GPT-6 Astra and Claude Opus 5.5 design LEGO models as LDraw CAD files.
Elon Musk and TSMC reportedly discuss multiple collaboration opportunities within the Terafab project.

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