Jul 15, 2026
Ant Group open-sourced LingBot-VLA 2.0, a free model its makers say drives 20 different robot bodies on a single gaming graphics card. A day later NVIDIA and Hugging Face answered. The race to become the Android of robots is on, and nobody is charging.
Jul 1, 2026
Plus: a humanoid robot pulls a multi-day shift, a monthly shot that silences a gene, a battery made of CO2, NASA's private cargo run to the Moon, and a quantum computer that fits in a server rack.
Jun 29, 2026
Plus: Washington gates the most powerful AI, a humanoid takes a real shift at BMW, an AI-designed antibody clears its first human safety test, the next Starship lights up, and quantum hits a real milestone.