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Italian manufacturer Castel has launched Kelvin, a 12–18 month humanoid robotics trial with IRMAP Service across production and offices. The company frames it as supporting staff on lower-value tasks and building internal skills.

Tokyo-based O-ID says it raised $1.2 million in seed funding, led by Tawani Ventures, to move a fully modular industrial humanoid from prototype toward production for Japanese automotive and logistics work.

Japanese nursing-home operator Charm Care is investing ¥300 million (about $2 million) in donut robotics and deepening a trial of the cinnamon humanoid, aiming to move from patrol toward nurse-call assistance.

South Korea’s president ordered a full response after customer data was exposed at seven financial firms, saying some cases showed possible AI use. Police have formed a 28-member investigation team.

Panasonic's chief AI officer says the group will develop humanoid robots for factories and warehouses and aims to start making them by 2029. Here's what was said, and how much is still unknown.

Google says Gemini 4 Argon is its next frontier model, with record benchmark scores and a 1M-token output limit. Most people can't use it yet, and some Google staff, speaking anonymously, question its coding. Here's what's claimed and what's checked.

OpenAI says GPT-6.1 Sol nearly matches GPT-6 Astra at about a fifth of the price. Here's what is on the official price list, what OpenAI's safety paperwork shows, and what is still only a claim.

If the Axios scoop is right, the open-weight field gets another entrant, and the top of the US market does not. Reflection has not confirmed it, and there is still nothing to download.

You do not have to go looking for AI. It is already in the search box, the phone, the document, and the speaker. What it is not, yet, is the thing that finishes the job.

A model can answer as if it knows you. It doesn't. Close the chat and the facts leave with it. A long prompt is not a memory, and a cache is not a memory.