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[SandboxAQ @SandboxAQ]

“Ultimately, we exist to change the way scientific discovery is done.” — Nadia Harhen, GM of AI Simulation at SandboxAQ.

SandboxAQ is making advanced scientific AI dramatically more accessible through its new collaboration with Anthropic. As featured in The Wall Street Journal, SandboxAQ is integrating its Large Quantitative Models (LQMs) with Claude, enabling scientists to interact with sophisticated drug discovery and materials science models using natural language instead of complex code.

This marks a major step forward in democratizing AI-powered scientific research. From catalyst identification to next-generation drug discovery, the future of scientific computing is becoming faster, more intuitive, and more scalable.

Read the full WSJ piece here: https://t.co/JYro1XBvTu

[Brett Adcock @adcock_brett]

I’m excited to announce that Figure has signed a commercial agreement with Catalyst Brands, the operator of JCPenney, Aéropostale, and Brooks Brothers

We’ll work to deploy humanoid robots at scale, starting with initial deployment in Reno, NV

[Brett Adcock @adcock_brett]

This week, Figure started an 8 hour livestream to demonstrate fully autonomous, nonstop work

We’ve now crossed 50 hours of continuous operation with no downtime, sorting over 63,000 packages

The robots are still running - we’re going until failure 🔥🔥🔥

[Brett Adcock @adcock_brett]

Figure is going live around 11am PT today with an 8-hour livestream of our robots running at human speeds

This will be fully autonomous on Helix-02 w/ zero human intervention

The robots will work together to keep operations running nonstop

I’ll share the link soon

[Brett Adcock @adcock_brett]

Hark just crossed 70 people and we’re hiring another 100.

40 jobs are posted, some of the new ones:

→ Pretraining
→ Training Infra
→ Speech Infra
→ Finance Lead
→ Marketing Lead
→ Hardware (many)
→ Backend / Fullstack SWE

https://t.co/ZLqb3oUBZ9

[Brett Adcock @adcock_brett]

Figure taught two robots to make a bed together - fully autonomous

Honestly, they’re better at it than most humans

[Beff (e/acc) @beffjezos]

Got to visit Figure HQ today again 😁

So inspiring what Brett and team have built in such a short time 🦾🚀

Extremely bullish on the future of humanoids made in the US 🇺🇸🤖

[Brett Adcock @adcock_brett]

Figure has a 🤯🤯🤯 update coming tomorrow

[zerohedge @zerohedge]

*XAI: NEW COMPUTE PARTNERSHIP WITH ANTHROPIC

*SPACEXAI: PACT WITH ANTHROPIC TO PROVIDE ACCESS TO COLOSSUS 1

[Pasqal - Quantum Computing @pasqal_quantum]

324 qubits: Scale matters—but control makes it science
🚀Simulating real materials on quantum hardware is now within reach.
💡For the 1st time on a Neutral Atom QPU, we controlled 324 entangled qubits to watch complex systems evolve in real time, defying decoherence at scale.

[zerohedge @zerohedge]

Figure CEO Says Humanoid Robots Could Soon Enter Homes For $600 A Month https://t.co/UK584OTdxO

[Brett Adcock @adcock_brett]

Robot Fashion

[SandboxAQ @SandboxAQ]

At SandboxAQ, we’re working at the intersection of AI and quantum technology to develop new, future-forward innovations. What once felt like science fiction is quickly becoming real, as advanced computing unlocks new ways to solve problems that were previously out of reach.

From accelerating drug discovery and transforming healthcare outcomes to strengthening cybersecurity in a post-quantum world, the work happening here is grounded in deep science and designed for real-world impact. It’s about pushing boundaries, challenging assumptions, and turning complex theory into practical solutions.

The future is being built today, and SandboxAQ cutting edge research is creating a world not limited to Hollywood imagination: https://t.co/AwTnLmvX37

[Mike Kalil @mikekalilmfg]

There appears to be a bloodbath going on at Boston Dynamics as it struggles to keep up with humanoid rivals.

“Former employees told Semafor the executives were pushed out by a board of directors critical of the company’s narrowing lead against its competitors. They said the company is under pressure to speed the delivery of working humanoids to Hyundai, which said it wants to integrate “tens of thousands” of them into its own carmaking plants in the next few years.

As of this year, the company was making roughly four of its Atlas humanoid robots per month, as it prepares to open a new manufacturing facility in the coming months, former employees said.”

[CyberRobo @CyberRobooo]

Boston Dynamics just had a brutal C-suite shakeup

CEO Robert Playter retired in February, the COO and CSO bounced right after, CTO Aaron Saunders jumped ship to Google DeepMind… and a ton of senior engineers and researchers are gone too.

This is happening right as the company gears up for IPO and tries to scale Atlas from flashy lab prototypes into real mass production.

Hyundai (the parent company) is cracking the whip: they want tens of thousands of these humanoids in their factories ASAP.

Basically going from “cool robot video dreamers” to “actual factory workforce suppliers” overnight. Board is in full panic mode. With Optimus, Figure,Unitree and the rest breathing down their necks, losing this much talent at crunch time… oof.

[Brett Adcock @adcock_brett]

In the last 120 days, Figure scaled manufacturing 24x - from 1 robot/day to 1 robot/hour

We will manufacture 55 humanoid robots this week

[Brett Adcock @adcock_brett]

So proud to see F.03 make history as the first humanoid robot in the White House 🤖 🇺🇸

[Hark @hark_labs]

Introducing Hark, an AI lab building the most advanced, personal intelligence in the world.

We're creating intelligent foundation models paired with next generation hardware designed to serve as a universal interface between humans and machines.

https://t.co/rlDCy5crWZ

[Peter H. Diamandis, MD @PeterDiamandis]

If you’re downplaying the humanoid robot economy, you’re making the same mistake some people made about the internet in 1993. The infrastructure is being built right before your eyes.

[RJ Scaringe @RJScaringe]

I am excited to announce Mind Robotics’ $500M financing, co-led by @Accel and @a16z! 

Mind is focused on building the world’s leading industrial robotics platform, capable of performing dexterous, variable, and reasoning-intensive tasks. Existing industrial robotics can perform repeatable, dimensionally stable tasks, but a large share of industrial value-add work requires human-like dexterity, adaptation, and physical reasoning that classical robotics cannot address. 

We are building AI-powered robots—models, hardware, and deployment infrastructure—that will perform real tasks, in real plants, at real scale.