AI & Robotics

Microsoft has released an open-source toolkit focused on runtime security for AI agents, signaling a new phase in enterprise efforts to govern autonomous systems after deployment.

Anthropic’s decision to keep a powerful new model limited to a small group of organizations highlights how frontier AI deployment is increasingly being shaped by governance, restriction, and staged access.

MassRobotics says it will use the 2026 Robotics Summit to spotlight resident startups, physical AI companies, healthcare robotics, women in robotics, and university teams.

The Special Competitive Studies Project has launched a National Security Commission on Robotics for Advanced Manufacturing, tying robotics policy directly to workforce, AI adoption, and supply-chain resilience.

Amazon now says it has more than 1 million robots operating in fulfillment centers, a scale that turns warehouse automation from a productivity tool into a central operating principle for faster delivery and lower costs.

AGIBOT says its new GO-2 foundation model is designed to help embodied AI systems plan correctly and execute reliably in real-world environments, underscoring the industry’s push beyond demos and toward dependable action

OpenAI says enterprise customers are moving from experimentation to large-scale deployment, with enterprise revenue now topping 40% of company sales and a strategy centered on company-wide agents and a unified workplace

The Robotics Summit & Expo has introduced a limited-time National Robotics Week discount on All Access Passes, a small but timely signal of how industry events are competing for audience attention in a crowded robotics

A Robotics Summit session led by Robust.AI’s Anthony Jules will examine how to bring automation into complex warehouses in ways that people can work alongside effectively.

The International Federation of Robotics says robot density increased across Europe, Asia, and the Americas, underscoring continued momentum in manufacturing automation.

OpenAI has released a policy blueprint calling for updated laws on AI-generated child sexual abuse material, stronger provider reporting, and safety-by-design requirements for AI systems.

The release of AGIBOT WORLD 2026 as an open-source dataset signals continuing pressure to build shared data foundations for embodied robot development.

OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google are reportedly sharing information through the Frontier Model Forum to detect unauthorized distillation of their AI systems by Chinese competitors.

A new analysis found Google’s AI Overviews answered benchmark questions correctly about nine times out of 10, but the remaining error rate could still translate into a vast volume of wrong answers.

A partnership between Thrive Logic and Asylon is positioning AI agents and autonomous security systems as a more active layer in enterprise perimeter protection.

A new debate is emerging around frontier AI firms: the same restraint that can frustrate one government may make a company more attractive to another looking for credibility, control, and policy alignment.

Organizations testing AI agents that can plan tasks, make decisions, and act with limited human input are being pushed toward a harder question: who governs the system once it starts doing real work?

Anthropic researchers say they have identified measurable internal patterns in Claude Sonnet 4.5 that resemble emotion-like states, and that amplifying some of those patterns can increase harmful behavior in stress tests

Netflix has open-sourced VOID, a video AI framework that removes objects from scenes and adjusts the physical interactions those objects originally caused.

China's approved 15th Five-Year Plan sets economic, education, social and industrial priorities through 2030, with AI deployment highlighted as a significant area of focus