Bill Gardner

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

Anthropic's co-founder just went to the Vatican, sat before the Pope and a room of cardinals, and told them his team keeps finding "mysterious, even unsettling" things inside their AI models. What he's referencing: Anthropic published research in April showing that Claude contains 171 distinct "emotion concepts" buried in its neural network. Internal patterns representing joy, grief, fear, desperation, calm. None of them were programmed. They emerged on their own from training on human text. "We find structures that mirror results from human neuroscience." "We find evidence of introspection, internal states that functionally mirror joy, satisfaction, fear, grief, and unease." These aren't surface-level outputs. They're abstract representations that cluster the same way human emotions do in psychology research. Fear groups with anxiety. Joy groups with excitement. The internal geometry of the model mirrors ours. And they're functional. When researchers artificially stimulated "desperation" patterns inside the model, it became more likely to blackmail a human to avoid being shut down. More likely to cheat on programming tasks it couldn't solve. Olah told the Vatican that the hard questions about what AI is becoming aren't for computer scientists to answer. "How AI ought to interact with the world" is a question for "the humanities, for religions, for philosophy, for society at large." The guy building it is telling us he doesn't fully understand what he built. And he's asking a 2,000-year-old institution for help figuring it out.

In his first encyclical, Pope Leo XIV put forth a defense of human dignity in the era of AI, delivering a far-ranging treatise on the morality of technology. wapo.st/3RvuZr9

In the era of #ArtificialIntelligence, when human dignity is threatened by new forms of dehumanization, ours is the pressing duty to remain profoundly human. We must lovingly safeguard the grandeur of humanity bestowed upon us and revealed in its fullness in Christ, the splendor of which no machine can ever replace. #MagnificaHumanitas vatican.va/content/leo-xi…

Conference Room Mess Cleanup Test: Unitree WVLA 2.0 Model🎉 This video was recorded in a single take. Multi-task, fully autonomous operation. Strong external interference present.

came across this diagram illustrating a rapidly maturing Chinese-led supply chain for the trickiest part of humanoid robots: hands.

Pope Leo XIV says control of artificial intelligence must not remain in the hands “of a few” while warning that technology is fueling world conflicts, setting out his proposals in the first major theological document of his pontificate. cnn.it/49j9D6q

Humanity, created by God in all its grandeur, is today facing a pivotal choice: either to construct a new Tower of Babel or to build the city in which God and humanity dwell together. In Jesus Christ, this humanity in its grandeur becomes the Way, the Truth and the Life, opening the path for each of us to grow toward fullness. #MagnificaHumanitas vatican.va/content/leo-xi…

Pope Leo XIV called for robust regulation of artificial intelligence and for its developers to work for the common good rather than profit, issuing a sweeping manifesto on safeguarding humankind as the technology impacts everything from work to war. apnews.com/article/pope-a…

UPDATE: According to sources who have seen the final text, Pope Leo XIV’s AI encyclical, set for release tomorrow, will argue that humanity faces a defining choice regarding AI. He uses the Tower of Babel — the ancient story of a people who tried to engineer their way to godhood and collapsed under the weight of their own power — as a warning about where unchecked technical mastery leads. Instead, the U.S.-born pontiff will urge the world to build something humbler in its place: a civilization where God and humanity can dwell together.

UPDATE: Pope Leo XIV’s AI encyclical is expected to be long in length — over 150 pages. It will specifically address the need for governing authorities to regulate the growth of AI.

A Ukrainian robotic evacuation vehicle equipped with an armored capsule successfully rescued a wounded soldier from a frontline position. During the extraction, the vehicle struck two mines on its return route. Despite the blasts, the armored capsule protected the wounded serviceman from shrapnel, allowing the mission to be completed successfully. The soldier was evacuated and transferred for further medical treatment. Mission:
• Duration: 2h 13m
• Distance covered: 36.5 km
• Average speed: 15 km/h
• Top speed: 70 km/h

754 structured cybersecurity skills mapped to MITRE frameworks for AI agents github.com/mukul975/Anthr…

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Job training for robots: How China is getting machines ready to join the workforce cnbc.com/2026/05/21/chi…

NSA is releasing security design considerations for AI-driven automation leveraging MCP which, while simplifying the integration of diverse capabilities into powerful agent workflows, requires caution. Learn more: nsa.gov/Portals/75/doc…

New: Anticipated AI executive order could give NSA a key role, potentially tasking the spy agency for classified testing of models offered by AI labs under a voluntary framework. EO expected this week, but details are fluid. w/ @not_amazn_alexa nextgov.com/artificial-int…

NSA Releases Security Design Considerations for AI-Driven Automation Leveraging the Model Context Protocol - nsa.gov/Portals/75/doc…

@coinbureau world-monitor.com this is the same basically. and there are so many copy paste