⚡️ So it begins: China deploys humanoid robots at border 24/7

China has signed a 264 million yuan (~$37 million) deal to deploy UBTech’s Walker S2 humanoid robots at the Fangchenggang border with Vietnam, where they’ll handle personnel flow, inspections, and logistics in harsh, remote conditions around the clock.

These 176 cm, 70 kg robots walk at about 2 m/s, can autonomously hot-swap their batteries in under 3 minutes for true 24/7 operation.

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❗️This is huge. First signs of incoming 1000x acceleration of scientific progress.

"Researchers found that when scientists use AI, their productivity soared. The biggest jump was in the social sciences and humanities, where output increased by 59.8%, while biology and life sciences saw a 52.9% increase."

"Meanwhile, in physics and math, the scientists report a 36.2% boost."

"LLM adoption is associated with a large increase in researchers' scientific output," wrote the team.

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🧠 AI narratives to watch next year, insights from a16z speedrun

After synthesizing ideas from 11 investors and partners at a16z Speedrun, a clear picture emerges of where AI is heading. Here are the core narratives likely to define the next year:

AI becomes a new medium for storytelling: AI won’t just generate content, it will enable entirely new, interactive ways to experience stories and the world around us.

Venture capital absorbs private equity: As software eats more traditional businesses, VC-style thinking moves downstream into PE-sized opportunities.

From solo AI to team AI: AI shifts from individual tools to true collaborators embedded in team products like Notion, Miro, and Figma, the move from AI 1.0 to AI 2.0.

AI agents competing for rewards: We’ll see marketplaces and “hackathons” where AI agents compete on real business tasks, with winners earning money (early signals: Near Intents–style systems).

The first AI-native university: Education rebuilt end-to-end around AI, where teaching, evaluation, and operations are fundamentally automated.

“Agent of my tastes”: Hyper-personalized agents that optimize the world around individual preferences taste becomes a core interface.

Writers make a comeback: Strong demand for storytellers as startups realize narrative, tone, and meaning matter more in an AI-saturated world.

AI marketplaces take off: According to Sam Shank, marketplaces for AI tools and agents become critical, driven by speed, personalization, and execution.

Fat startups win: Startups with proprietary data and strong distribution outperform, scale plus defensibility beats pure model plays (Andrew Lee).

Tools to help us stay human: A new category focused on agency, creativity, and emotional grounding not just productivity.

AI makes premium services cheap: Travel planning, business ops, therapy, tutoring, AI pushes formerly expensive services into mass accessibility.

2025 felt like the year of pouring the foundation: better models, lower costs, early agents, and real infrastructure. 2026 looks like the year houses get built on top of it.

The question now isn’t can we build, it’s what deserves to be built first?

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💬 Dating in 2026: AI talking to AI through humans

According to a Bloomberg analyst, more young people are outsourcing their relationships to ChatGPT. They upload entire chat histories and photos of new partners, and the AI analyzes attachment styles, behavioral patterns, and emotional signals then tells them exactly what to say next. Sometimes it even writes the messages verbatim, ready to copy-paste.

The twist? It works. Results are “good enough” that users start recommending it to friends. As the trend spreads to women too, dating slowly turns into a strange loop where two AIs are essentially messaging each other using humans as the interface.

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🔥 You can now build real apps inside ChatGPT.

No setup. No switching tabs. Just describe what you want and watch it come to life. Meet Replit in ChatGPT

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Would you want your kids to be friends with humanoids?

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How China is using Robots in hospital operations.

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✈️ Emirates turns an airplane into Santa’s reindeer

Emirates, the UAE’s largest airline, shared a festive AI-generated video transforming one of its planes into a Christmas icon. The aircraft is decked out with holiday decorations and reindeer antlers, while Santa Claus’s sleigh loaded with gifts is attached behind it.

The airline used the playful visual to wish passengers and followers a Merry Christmas, blending aviation, AI creativity, and seasonal cheer into a single viral moment.

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An Illinois neighborhood was erased to make room for an AI data center

In the U.S., an entire residential area in Illinois was demolished to build a massive AI data center. Developer CyrusOne bought out 55 houses, reportedly paying $1 million per home. On paper, it looked like a win-win: cash payouts, new homes, clean exits.

But the story didn’t end there. Several families refused to sell until the very end. They were offered neither compensation nor relocation options. Pressure mounted until the case reached court. Only after legal intervention were these families finally allowed to leave

The AI data center is scheduled to go live in 2026. The neighborhood that once stood there is now completely gone

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❗️Big update on OpenAI's upcming ads:

OpenAI is actively testing how ads could appear inside ChatGPT. "For instance, AI models could prioritize sponsored content to ensure it shows up in ChatGPT responses."

• Sponsored info prioritized inside answers for relevant queries (e.g., a Sephora-sponsored mascara recommendation), and

• Sponsored modules in a sidebar next to the main response, likely paired with a “includes sponsored results” disclosure.

Another mockup keeps ads out of the first reply, instead showing them only after the user signals deeper intent - like clicking a place in a travel itinerary - then surfacing a pop-up with multiple sponsored links (e.g., paid tours after clicking Sagrada Família), aiming to stay “unobtrusive” and protect trust.

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🔥 Imagine a future where your humanoid assistant orders groceries for you. A humanoid at the supermarket picks everything, and autonomous vehicles deliver it to your door.

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AI surveillance

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A highly realistic humanoid robot displaying lifelike facial expressions.

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🗣Demis Hassabis, CEO of DeepMind, says robotics didnt fail because of hardware.

It failed because intelligence was missing. Gemini level models finally give robots the software brain they needed. When intelligence works, hardware follows.

AGI doesnt live behind a screen. It moves.

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