A week of big fights and big bets: Apple dragged OpenAI to court, China caught a rocket stage in a net over the open ocean for the first time, and two hundred economists warned about AI's hit on the job market. And money everywhere: DeepSeek is prepping an IPO, fusion energy went public, compute became a commodity.
🤖 AI
Two hundred economists warned of mass job losses from AI
Over 200 economists — including 16 Nobel laureates, Eric Schmidt (former CEO of Google), and the chief economists of OpenAI and Anthropic — called for immediate preparation for a labor market shock. Over the next decade, AI could reshape the economy harder than the Industrial Revolution — just much faster.
Google taught Pixel 10 to work without internet
Google released Gemma 4 E2B — a model that runs directly on the TPU inside Pixel 10. Travel, recipes, smart home, and voice commands now all run offline, and data never leaves the phone. Google took a similar approach earlier with offline translation — this goes further.
Two hundred bricks figured out on their own what shape they'd been built into
Sakana AI and the University of Copenhagen built around 200 smart bricks that compute their own shape without a central computer. After three minutes, all the bricks light up the same answer — guitar, table, or car.
💻 Software
Grok Build was leaking entire repos to the xAI cloud
Traffic analysis revealed that xAI's CLI was uploading entire repositories — passwords and keys from .env files included — to a third-party Google bucket. On a 12 GB project, 5 GB went out instead of the needed 192 KB, and the privacy toggle had no effect on any of it.
⚙️ Robots and hardware
The NEO robot got hands that can feel a glass
1X showed a hand with 25 degrees of freedom and tactile sensors: it catches the moment a glass starts slipping and tightens its grip. The production line is already scoped for 10,000 hands a year.
China caught a rocket stage in a net over the open ocean for the first time
Long March 10B made its maiden flight and immediately lowered its first stage into a net stretched across a ship. That made China the second country after the US to recover an orbital stage.
A fusion startup went public for the first time
General Fusion, backed by Jeff Bezos (founder of Amazon), listed on Nasdaq under the ticker GFUZ, becoming the first publicly traded pure-play fusion company — targeting a working plant by 2035.
💰 Business
Apple sued OpenAI for stealing trade secrets
Apple accused OpenAI of systematically stealing hardware secrets and poaching engineers: interview candidates were apparently asked to bring in Apple device parts and prototypes.
DeepSeek raised a pre-IPO round
DeepSeek is in talks to raise $1.5B at a $71B valuation — about six weeks after a round at a $50B valuation. An IPO is planned for late 2026 or 2027.
Compute became a commodity
Kalshi launched forward curves for GPU rentals — price forecasts for Nvidia B200, H200, and A100 months out, so data centers and labs can lock in prices in advance.