Claude Cowork and ChatGPT Work are competing to become the workplace AI agent. Here’s how their files, browser, desktop, and automation capabilities compare.

Philippine surgeons completed historic robotic telesurgeries across a reported 1,380 km, showing the potential of long-distance remote surgery.

Boston Dynamics trained its Atlas humanoid robot for millions of simulated hours before it successfully lifted and carried a mini-fridge.

Amazon cut jobs in its AGI organization while continuing to invest heavily in AI infrastructure, Nova models, and customer-focused tools.

Unitree has unveiled UnifoLM-OminiA-0.3, a unified embodied AI model designed to help humanoid robots perform household and care-related tasks.

Chinese AI models are gaining business interest as companies weigh lower costs, open-weight flexibility, performance trade-offs, and enterprise risks.

Hyundai workers in South Korea strike over pay and job protections as the automaker plans to deploy Atlas humanoid robots across Hyundai and Kia factories.

Nvidia is partnering with Japan’s robotics leaders to develop smarter factories using physical AI, new models, and domestic computing infrastructure.

Microsoft fixed a record 570 vulnerabilities in July's Patch Tuesday as AI-powered tools play a growing role in vulnerability discovery and cybersecurity.

Google is rolling out Gemini in Chrome to UK users, adding cross-tab summaries, Google service integrations, image tools, and new privacy questions.

Xiaomi says its humanoid robot achieved a 98% success rate on a task at an EV factory, narrowing the gap with human operators.

Major publishers and author Scott Turow accuse Google of using copyrighted books and articles without permission to train Gemini AI models in a new lawsuit.

Twenty-six current and former Meta employees allege AI-assisted productivity metrics unfairly influenced layoff decisions affecting workers on protected leave. Meta denies the claims.

Nvidia’s “Halos for Robotics” system brings autonomous vehicle safety tools to humanoid robots designed to work near people in factories.

Meta pauses MCI after private conversations and employee data were exposed inside the company, renewing concerns over AI training and workplace monitoring.

Noam Shazeer is leaving Google for OpenAI less than two years after Google’s $2.7 billion deal brought him back.

Anthropic’s clash with Washington over Claude, Mythos, export controls, and military AI shows how fast frontier AI oversight is changing.

Trump officials reportedly discussed AI equity stakes, raising new questions about frontier model access, regulation, and open-source AI.

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Hong Kong plans a 24-hour convenience store run by Galbot’s Xiao Gai humanoid robot, bringing embodied AI into public retail and customer service.