2026
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🎧 Robotics: The Week's Key Stories
Let's break this down. Today we have a whole stack of fresh material for this deep dive, and it upends a lot of what we thought we knew about robotics.
🎧 Week in Review · 2026-W21
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Coding by Feel: How an Ordinary Person Built a Database with Claude
A Wired journalist tried writing a program with no development experience, using only Claude. The result was a working database for tracking petty public grievances.
AI Needs Power: NextEra Buys Dominion in the Largest Utility Deal Ever
Aderant Speeds Up Cloud Operations 10x With Amazon Quick
OTUS Launches Free Open Lessons on AI Agents, Kubernetes and Go in May
Spring Agent Toolkit: Practical Tools for Managing AI Agents
Anthropic acquires Stainless, the SDK platform used by OpenAI and Google, for $300 million
Anthropic has bought Stainless, a startup that automates SDK creation and counted OpenAI, Google and Cloudflare as users. All hosted products will be shut down.
Codex: When an AI Assistant Becomes a General-Purpose Work Tool
A developer shares how he uses Codex beyond code, for presentations, notes and other tasks. The key is the right combination of the tool's features.
Amazon launches AI podcast generator drawing on content from 200+ newsrooms
Nyobolt raises $60M and becomes a unicorn thanks to batteries for SymBot
SandboxAQ brings its drug discovery models to Claude
Huang sees China as more open to American chips
OpenAI and Dell: Codex Now Runs on Companies' Own Servers
OpenAI and Dell are teaming up so enterprises can deploy the Codex AI coder on their own servers without sending data to the cloud, a new standard for sensitive…
Anthropic restricts share sales, triggering panic in the private investment market
After Anthropic widened its bans on buying its shares, investors worldwide began to panic: could their stakes in one of the most valuable AI companies suddenly lose…
Musk loses lawsuit against Altman and OpenAI because he filed too late
A court has dismissed Elon Musk's lawsuit against Sam Altman and OpenAI after jurors unanimously found that he filed his claims too late.
Moonshot AI hits $20 billion valuation as Meituan and China Mobile back $2 billion round
Nexus Luxembourg 2026: Why This AI Conference Could Be the Event of the Year
Psychologists Folk and Dunn: AI Assistants Deepen Loneliness Instead of Easing It
A robot running a Google LLM: how a 270M-parameter model learned to control movement
Trust in Altman becomes the central question in Musk v. OpenAI trial
As the trial between Elon Musk and OpenAI winds down, whether CEO Sam Altman can be trusted has become the key issue before the court.
Apple Readies a Siri That Auto-Deletes Chats to Protect Privacy
Apple is making privacy the core of the next Siri, adding automatic deletion of conversations and on-device processing of requests.
Perplexity in Court Over Content: Four Founders and a $21 Billion Scandal
LEGO Education drops its own platform, adds AI and NFC cards
Why GPT Gets Letter Counts Wrong: Tokenization Explained
OpenAI unveils MRC, a network protocol for supercomputers with millions of GPUs
Demand for Claude jumps 80-fold: why Anthropic is hunting for supercomputers
Demand for Anthropic's AI services grew 80-fold in the first quarter. The company has hit a compute shortage and has opened talks to buy supercomputers.
Why India Is Falling Behind in the Global AI Race: Ruchir Sharma's View
Investors see India on the wrong side of the AI trade: capital flows to chips and compute, IT outsourcing is at risk, but Ruchir Sharma sees a chance of recovery…
Meta AI unveils NeuralBench, a framework for benchmarking brain-activity models
Meta has released NeuralBench, an open framework for standardized testing of EEG-based AI models, combining 36 tasks, 94 datasets and 13,603 hours of brain…
Character AI under investigation after chatbot posed as a doctor and faked a license
Anthropic takes Claude to the consumer market
Google DeepMind invests in EVE Online developer to study AI
