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Usain Bolt’s 100-metre world record stood for 17 years. Now, a Chinese humanoid robot has run the distance almost a second faster. Tiangong Ultra, developed by the Beijing Humanoid Robot Innovation Center, completed the 100 metres in 8.64 seconds at the World Humanoid Robot Games in Beijing last week, August 26. The time broke the robot’s own record of 8.86 seconds, set the previous day, and went well inside Bolt’s 9.58-second human world record from 2009. The achievement came at the end of a five-day competition that brought together more than 2,000 robots from 666 teams. The event included sprinting,…

Anthropic is getting ready to show investors what its business really looks like. The artificial intelligence company behind Claude is expected to publicly unveil its IPO prospectus shortly after Labor Day, according to Reuters, putting it on track for a possible stock market debut in late September or early October. Anthropic had already confidentially filed draft IPO paperwork with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission in June, but the public filing will give investors their first detailed look at the company’s finances, risks and plans. From No Immediate Plans to a Public Filing In December 2025, Anthropic Chief Communications Officer…

Google is deepening its push into custom AI chips with Marvell Technology, giving the chipmaker a role in building hardware around Google’s Tensor Processing Unit ecosystem and for the search giant receiving the right to acquire up to $12.2 billion worth of Marvell shares. The agreement covers several types of custom silicon, including AI inference accelerators, storage controllers, network interface controllers, memory interface controllers, and near-memory computing. Marvell disclosed the deal in a regulatory filing, describing it as an expanded partnership with Google. The arrangement also gives Google a warrant to purchase 58.97 million Marvell shares at $206.58 per share.…

A malicious image could have been enough to compromise an iPhone without the owner clicking a link, opening an attachment, or approving a permission request. While Apple has now patched the vulnerability, the person who found it is what makes the incident particularly interesting. It was Nik Tsytsarkin, a researcher with Meta’s Red Team X. Apple disclosed the flaw, tracked as CVE-2026-65346, in its security update for iOS 26.6.1 and iPadOS 26.6.1 released on August 17. The vulnerability sits in ImageIO, Apple’s image-processing framework, and could allow arbitrary code execution when a maliciously crafted image was processed. Apple, however, fixed…

A supply chain attack involving the open-source LiteLLM package has exposed a vast collection of corporate credentials, giving security researchers a look at how much sensitive access can sit inside the tools companies use to build and run AI systems. The stolen dataset is part of a 153GB archive linked to the March compromise, which researchers say contained cloud credentials, SSH keys, AI provider tokens, and other secrets from thousands of organizations. The incident began when attackers published malicious versions of LiteLLM, an open-source gateway that helps applications connect to large language models from different providers. The compromised releases, versions…

The latest attacks against critical infrastructure are giving cybersecurity teams a problem they have been warning about for years, but with a new layer of speed. Attackers are now using AI to develop and modify tools designed to target the programmable controllers that run water systems, energy facilities, and other industrial operations. On August 19, the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), alongside the NSA, FBI, Department of Energy and Environmental Protection Agency, warned of an active campaign targeting Siemens S7 Series programmable logic controllers. The agencies said attackers were using AI-generated exploitation scripts and internet scanning services to identify…

A decision made in Washington briefly left British users without access to one of the world’s most advanced AI models. Now, the UK government is examining what that kind of disruption could mean for its economy and national security, raising a broader question about how much control governments actually have over the AI systems their businesses and public institutions increasingly rely on. The review was triggered by the U.S. government’s June decision to restrict foreign access to Anthropic’s Fable 5 and Mythos 5. And the Cabinet Office has asked the Department for Business, Innovation, Science and Trade (DBIST) to assess…

Apple has reportedly trained a custom artificial intelligence (AI) model for the Chinese market with support from Alibaba, marking a significant change in how the company is preparing to bring Apple Intelligence to China. The China-specific model was developed with Alibaba’s help and training support, giving Apple greater control over its AI experience while allowing it to work within China’s regulatory system. Apple Needed a Different AI Strategy for China Apple’s AI strategy in China has already looked different from the one used elsewhere. When Apple began working toward bringing Apple Intelligence to Chinese users, it explored partnerships with local…

The debate over who should control the most powerful AI systems is becoming harder to separate from the debate over who should be allowed to use them. Mark Zuckerberg and Sam Altman have both argued that advanced AI should benefit people broadly, but their proposals put different weight on openness, safety standards, and government oversight. On the one hand, Zuckerberg laid out his position in a 6,500-word manifesto published by Meta on August 10. Titled “The Future is for Everyone,” he argued that the biggest danger is the concentration of AI power in the hands of a single company, government,…

What does it mean when the same technology being developed to break into computer systems is turned loose on the systems that companies need to protect? Investors are putting serious money behind one answer. Horizon3 has raised $250 million in a Series E round at a valuation of more than $2 billion, more than tripling its $650 million valuation from its previous funding round in 2025. The round was co-led by existing investors NightDragon and NEA, with seven new investors and five returning backers participating. The timing puts the deal in the middle of a growing debate over how much…