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- Industry Insights · July 4, 2026
Humanoid robots dropped 70% in price in two years. That is the real story.
China's biggest robot maker is going public, but the headline that matters is that humanoid robots fell from $85,000 to $25,000 in just two years — and the business behind them is already profitable.
- AI in Practice · July 1, 2026
Copilot's surprise bill shows what AI agents really cost
GitHub Copilot now charges you for how much AI you use. The shock bills show why running AI agents costs far more than plain autocomplete.
- Industry Insights · June 30, 2026
The real robot news isn't the robot — it's how fast they're being built
A Chinese company, AGIBOT, went from 5,000 to 10,000 robots in just three months. What matters isn't what one robot can do. It's how fast they are being built — and how little time rivals have to catch up.
- AI in Practice · June 29, 2026
Why OpenAI's cheaper models matter more than its star
OpenAI's new top model set a record. But the bigger deal is that near-top AI now costs about half what it did — and that changes what's worth automating.
- Industry Insights · June 28, 2026
The best AI researchers just switched teams — and it matters to you
When four top DeepMind researchers leave in one week and three join the same rival, that is a clue about which AI tools your team will use next year.
- Industry Insights · June 27, 2026
The hard part of robots isn't the robot — it's knowing what you mean
A new MIT method cuts the practice data a robot needs by about 80%. Why it matters: the hard, costly part of automation is figuring out what a person actually wants, not moving the arm.
- Industry Insights · June 26, 2026
A $2.5 billion robot company is really a bet on software nobody has built yet
Agility Robotics is worth $2.5 billion, but it has only about 100 robots working and barely any sales. That price is a bet on the warehouse software nobody has built yet, not the robots on the floor.
- AI in Practice · June 25, 2026
The best part of Mistral's new OCR isn't accuracy — it's that it runs on your own computer
A cheap OCR that runs entirely on your own machines. It reads text out of scans and keeps the layout — and it removes the last good reason to do paperwork by hand.
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