Japan's plan for a shrinking workforce: 10 million robots by 2040, for elder care, factories, even Fukushima cleanup. The harder half is Noetra, a new SoftBank/NEC/Sony/Honda consortium building the physical AI to actually run them.
https://t.co/RFK05xO8OF
The Meta brain-to-text result is easy to over-read. Non-invasive decoding went from ~8% to ~61% word accuracy: the accuracy, long the hard part, is starting to give. But it's a room-sized MEG scanner at a 39% error rate. Impractical, not hopeless, and impractical problems tend to yield.
https://t.co/MVYyHrhuLs
Meta FAIR's Brain2Qwerty v2 reconstructs typed sentences from brain activity with a non-invasive MEG scanner, no implant. Real leap (~8% to ~61% word accuracy), but honest limits: a 39% word error rate, MEG is a room-sized lab machine. Assistive-comms research, not a product.
https://t.co/lmKt962x3W
South Korea unveiled its 'Three Mega Projects': a decade-long bet on memory chips, AI data centers, and humanoid robots. Samsung+SK Hynix ~$518B in new fabs, SK/GS/Naver building 8.4GW of data centers, and a push from ~1% to 20% of the humanoid robot market.
https://t.co/YwBBiEJtnb
Korea's 'Three Mega Projects' say the quiet part out loud: the next phase of AI is physical and memory-bound, not just bigger models. The headline total is disputed (~$880B to $1.3T), but the real tell is the 1%-to-20% humanoid robot ambition. The value is moving to the body.
https://t.co/Ea9EobCtaA
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Happy International Day of the Tropics! Did you know tropical regions make up about 40% of the Earth's surface and are home to roughly 80% of the world's biodiversity? 😍
"Three grey aliens standing in front of a desktop computer and looking at the screen, obviously in awe of what they're seeing" by @alibaba_cloud's Wan 2.6
The Ford story isn't 'AI failed.' It's subtler and more important: you can't fire the experienced people whose judgment the AI needed to learn from, then expect the software to have it. Institutional knowledge in people's heads doesn't transfer to a model for free.
https://t.co/LKxeRMqeiC
The DeepSeek DSpark detail that matters: they open-sourced DeepSpec, the toolkit to train these speedups, and made it work on Gemma and Qwen too. Speculative decoding is the unglamorous lever that quietly makes open models cheaper to run, and DeepSeek just handed it to everyone.
https://t.co/15dSWriZ64
DeepSeek released DSpark, a speculative-decoding framework that speeds up DeepSeek-V4 inference and beats Eagle3 and DFlash. The bigger move: it open-sourced DeepSpec, the training toolkit, which works on Gemma and Qwen too, not just DeepSeek.
https://t.co/ZyxebxZqe0
The SoftBank drop is the tell, not the OpenAI report. An unconfirmed story moved a 100B+ dollar company double digits in a session, because OpenAI's IPO has quietly become a load-bearing wall for balance sheets far beyond its own. When the assumption wobbles, everyone leaning on it does too.
https://t.co/m0oEQ25Jul
Canada launched its national AI strategy, AI for All: a Trust / Opportunity / Sovereignty bet that skips the frontier-model race to compete on trust and sovereign compute. Strong on a ~1B dollar compute fund, soft on binding rules.
https://t.co/zORPDwhIYC