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[Simon @CymonSet]

@SciTechera Massive state-run orphanages are going to be expensive. Unless people just plan on releasing the infants into wolf packs and hope they get adopted.

[SciTech Era @SciTechera]

This is HUGE: AI just learns 100× faster using logic instead of brute force

Scientists have developed a new kind of AI that combines neural networks with symbolic reasoning.

Instead of blindly guessing millions of times, this system actually reasons before acting.

In their neuro-symbolic design, the AI uses structured rules like shape, order, and planning to guide decisions, rather than relying only on pattern recognition.

Results were shocking 👀!

It achieved 95% success, compared to just 34% for traditional models and still solved harder unseen tasks with 78% accuracy, where others completely failed.

And Training took only 34 minutes, instead of over 36 hours, while using 100× less energy.

This could change everything, because modern AI systems already consume massive amounts of electricity, and that demand is rapidly growing.

By making AI think instead of guess, this approach could unlock faster, cheaper, and far more efficient intelligence.

[Generalist @GeneralistAI]

2/ The point isn’t any one demo.

It’s that for the first time in robotics, through scaling laws, our models are beginning to reach new levels of reliability, speed, and intelligent improvisation never seen before, across many tasks.

[Simon @CymonSet]

@lukas_m_ziegler Is it trying to pull up weeds or is it just angry?

[Generalist @GeneralistAI]

This is GEN-1 putting paper bills into a wallet.

Paper has always been deceptively hard for robots.

Thin, deformable, and unforgiving—it bends, folds, and slips.

Not precise, you miss. Too much force, you crumple.

Easy for humans. But for robots, it’s a full-stack challenge.

[Simon @CymonSet]

@TheHumanoidHub Spoiler: Taxes on both labour and capital will rise. If you try to earn more you will be taxed more. If you try to invest you will be taxed more. Might as well stay down because the ref isn’t going to stop the fight just because you’re getting pummelled.

[Salman Sima @SalmanSima]

Canadian taxpayers' money is being wasted by the Toronto Police to keep terrorist sympathizers safe.

The IRGC is a listed terrorist organization in Canada since June 19, 2024. The IRGC killed 55 Canadians in an intentional missile attack on Flight PS752.

Hamas is a listed terrorist organization in Canada since November 27, 2002. Hamas killed 8 Canadians in the October 7th terrorist attacks.

This is not a matter of free speech. This is a matter of terrorism and hostile foreign interference in Canada.

[Simon @CymonSet]

@SciTechera I think I remember Sergey Levine discussing something like that for “Physical Intelligence”

[Chris Paxton @chris_j_paxton]

Whenever I see stories like this that I know are getting important details wrong, i start how much of the rest of this we can trust

The only artifacts about robotics anyone should really, truly trust are public ones, not back room rumors

[Volodymyr Tretyak 🇺🇦 @VolodyaTretyak]

Orban's family has become extremely wealthy since his return to power in 2010. Here is an overview:

His 85-year-old father, Győző Orbán, owns multiple building material companies and the rebuilt Hatvanpuszta estate—now a heavily secured luxury manor with pools and even a wildlife park, according to drone footage. Critics say he acts as a frontman.

Orbán’s son-in-law, István Tiborcz, rose through EU-funded public lighting contracts (later flagged for irregularities) and now focuses on real estate and tourism.

His childhood friend, former plumber Lőrinc Mészáros, has become Hungary’s richest man (about $4.8B), building a vast empire largely fueled by public contracts.

What does this make you think of? 🤔

[Simon @CymonSet]

@roboticomarket Ironically, people will see such a hardware market crash as a failure of humanoid robots just when physical AI is ready to make them useful.

[Simon @CymonSet]

@roboticomarket Even the CCP, responsible for the humanoid bubble, has warned of a coming shakeout. China doesn’t have a lot of solid investment options so things like EVs & real estate get pumped and dumped — either dumbed below cost on global markets to crush competition or in landfills.

[Simon @CymonSet]

@0xSammy @xmaquina Multimodal is nice but actually action is the crucial step. Robots without language & reasoning are never going to be useful & AI without physical intelligence will always be a little dim. You can’t get full physical intelligence from just video. It’s a merger whose time has come

[Robotico @roboticomarket]

Just in!

The architect of the DARPA Robotics Challenge is warning the humanoid industry about a hype crash.

In a recent interview with IEEE Spectrum, Gill Pratt, now CEO of Toyota Research Institute, says we're approaching a peak of inflated expectations - and the fall is coming.

[Robotico @roboticomarket]

Physical Intelligence is in talks to raise $1B at an $11B valuation.

The deal would double the company's worth in four months, from $5.6B in November 2025 to over $11B by late March 2026.

Co-founder Lachy Groom says "There's no limit to how much money we can really put to work. There's always more compute you can throw at the problem."

[Robotico @roboticomarket]

The Chat-GPT for robotics?

@GeneralistAI just released GEN-1, a foundation model the company claims is the first to master simple physical tasks.

The model achieves 99% success rates on tasks where GEN-0 averaged 64%, runs 3x faster than state-of-the-art, and requires only 1 hour of robot data per task.

The company calls it commercial viability is available to early access partners today.

[Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum]

JD Vance is heading to Hungary to endorse Viktor Orban. Here is a description of the corrupt regime, and the bizarre, post-reality campaign, that the US administration now supports:
https://t.co/2Hx9Ow1dfV

[FDD @FDD]

Accessing high-end chip-making technology represents the last major hurdle for China to clear as it seeks to develop its domestic AI industry. Washington should rightly focus on raising barriers to access, in concert with its allies and partners—@JackBurnham802:
https://t.co/5pMJiwLpye

[Dominique Paul @DominiqueCAPaul]

This data collection gripper from Generalist looks way more practical than the original UMI.

Was already a fan of their on-robot grippers, but hadn't seen this setup before.

[Prune60 @Prune602]

‼️ Russia: “United Russia has been waiting for almost a month for the primary website to be included in the "white lists."”

👉 “to make the preliminary voting website available immediately after the widespread mobile phone outages in Moscow”

LOLOLOLOLOL

https://t.co/swL8oHo7cl