Robots, Hugging Face for Sale & Nvidia's $6B AI Bet




This week: China's World Robot Conference and Humanoid Robot Games take over Beijing — Unitree's chaotic IPO debut, a "Superman" robot with a 2-meter standing jump, and a humanoid robot that beat Usain Bolt's 100m world record. Plus: Hugging Face reportedly in talks to sell for $13B, Nvidia and Poolside team up on a $6B open-weight model to rival DeepSeek and Kimi K3, a mystery "Ox Alpha" model goes viral on OpenRouter, Sam Altman opens up on AI backlash and UBI, and a warning about Chinese researchers building synthetic voter models of Americans. We also ask: is Star Wars in trouble, and is Dr. Dre right that AI skeptics just "have trouble creating"?

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