Technology

Robotics

270 AMRs Replace 1,200 Weekly Cart Pushes at Chery Plant — Workers Shift to Supervision

TL;DR * ForwardX deploys 435 AMRs at Chery's Dalian plant, automating 80% of material delivery across welding and final assembly lines * Hyundai Donates Unmanned Firefighting Robots to South Korea's National Fire Agency with 50kph Speed and 800°C Heat Protection * OpenAI robotics head Caitlin Kalinowski resigns

HPC & Semiconductors

98% Faster AI Storage Creation — On-Prem, Ransomware-Proof — Hits Enterprise NAS

TL;DR * QNAP releases QuTS hero 6 beta with ZFS-based HA clustering, immutable snapshots, KMIP, and on-prem LLM-powered RAG search for enterprise NAS * Intel launches Arc PRO B60 Dual 48G Liquid Edition with 32GB GDDR6 per GPU, enabling 336GB total VRAM for AI workstations with liquid cooling

Artificial Intelligence

47.6M Revenue from AI Power Plants — Vietnam and South Korea Lead Energy Sovereignty Shift — But Global Inequality Grows

TL;DR * Korea Western Power and Doosan Enerbility Deploy AI-Powered Virtual Models for Combined-Cycle Power Plant Optimization * Australia Deploys Intelligent Document Automation for 10,000+ Annual Protection Visa Applications, Cutting Processing Time from Hours to Minutes * UCATAB Unveils Unified Causal Taxonomy of Algorithmic Biases, Classifying 21 Subtypes Across

Cybersecurity

45M Ransomware Payoff Exposes Corporate Cyber Delusion — UK, US, and EU Firms Most Exposed

TL;DR * Akira ransomware generated $45M in illicit payments in 2025, leveraging AI and double extortion tactics against 2,207 North American victims * U.S. regulators block mandatory age verification on Discord after privacy backlash and data breach * LLMs like GPT-5.2 and Claude 4.5 Opus detect conversation

Robotics

2.3 TOPS Edge AI on a Credit Card — Germany Leads as Wisconsin’s AI License Scanners Mistake Innocents

TL;DR * SMARC 2.2 module with NXP i.MX 8M Plus enables edge AI for industrial robotics, delivering 2.3 TOPS neural processing and dual MIPI-CSI camera support * Arduino VENTUNO Q launches with Qualcomm Dragonwing IQ8, delivering 40 TOPS on-device AI for robotics and edge applications * Flock

Cybersecurity

42,000 iPhones Hacked — iOS 13 Still Running Amid $75B Crypto Losses: Apple’s Patch Ignored

TL;DR * Google uncovers Coruna iOS exploit kit targeting 23 vulnerabilities across iOS 13–17.2.1 to steal crypto seed phrases * Critical CVE-2026-1492 vulnerability exploited in 60,000+ WordPress sites allows unauthenticated admin access * Wikimedia Foundation hit by self-propagating JavaScript worm modifying 3,996 pages and

Robotics

2,160-Beam LiDAR in $8,200 BYD Seagull: Budget EVs Now Match Luxury Autonomy—But Who Pays the Hidden Cost? — China’s EV Supply Chain

TL;DR * Dexterity’s Foresight World Model achieves 400ms box-packing decisions, trains on 100M+ autonomous actions, launches $50K student AI challenge * RoboSense named exclusive LiDAR partner for 11 new BYD energy vehicles, enabling 2,160-beam EM4 platform integration * Seyond launches Falcon K sensor with 500m range, adopted by

Artificial Intelligence

MediX-R1 Hits 95.1% Diagnostic Accuracy — Abu Dhabi AI Reshapes Global ERs

TL;DR * MBZUAI releases open-source MediX-R1 clinical AI model achieving 95.1% accuracy on US medical licensing benchmarks * Fourier AI by CONTACT Software delivers GDPR-compliant, on-prem AI for industrial automation with full data sovereignty and security-by-design architecture * OpenAI launches Codex app on Windows with

HPC & Semiconductors

38 MW Data Centers Surge in Texas—Power Grids Strain Under AI Demand

TL;DR * AFCOM report reveals U.S. data center average size now 38 MW, with 72% of operators expecting AI to drive capacity growth and 36% deploying liquid cooling * Huawei launches industry-first 51.2T liquid-cooled fixed switch CloudEngine XH9230-128DQ-LC at MWC Barcelona 2026, enabling AI-driven

Cybersecurity

200M Stolen Passwords & 18M Colombian IDs Leaked: Bureaucracy Wins, Security Loses

TL;DR * LeakBase cybercrime forum dismantled in global operation; 142,000+ members, 215,000 messages, and hundreds of millions of credentials seized * Colombia’s DIAN tax authority breach exposes 18M records via unpatched appointment portal vulnerability 🤡 200 Million Stolen Credentials Seized in Global Crackdown — FBI Takes Down LeakBase Across 14

HPC & Semiconductors

32 TB/s AI Bandwidth Breakthrough — NVIDIA Leads as Europe and Asia Lag Behind

TL;DR * Rambus Announces HBM4E Memory Controller IP with 32 TB/s Bandwidth for AI Accelerators * Imec and Atlas Data Storage co-develop DNA-based storage system on 300mm CMOS platform, enabling petabyte-scale archival for HPC workloads * Apple Unveils M5 Pro and M5 Max Chips with 4x AI Compute

Artificial Intelligence

Legal AI Ignores Borders: 50% of Top U.S. Firms Use Harvey AI on U.S. Servers — EU and South African Clients at Risk

TL;DR * OpenAI and Microsoft advance legal AI integration with Harvey platform in Microsoft 365 Copilot * 36 AI models tested by Bitcoin Policy Institute show 48.3% preference for Bitcoin over stablecoins and fiat, with 79.1% favoring it in long-term store-of-value scenarios * South Korea’s AI