🔗 Real "Real Steel"

A full-scale fighting league for humanoid robots is in full swing in China: Ultimate Robot Knock-out Legend (URKL).

Every fighter is an identical EngineAI T800 android, but each team runs its own software and human operator.

The winner will receive a gold championship belt worth $1.44 million.

Whose fights are cooler?

🔥 — Robots!
👍 — Humans!
❤️ — Neither, I'm not into fighting...

✖ UK Proposes Midnight Social Media Curfew for Teens Aged 16–17

TikTok, YouTube, Instagram and other platforms would be unavailable to 16- and 17-year-olds from midnight to 6 a.m. Teens can turn the restrictions off at any time—they're on by default, not mandatory.

Next spring, the UK will enforce a full social media ban for kids under 16. The curfew is designed to smooth the transition: instead of hitting a "cliff edge" at 16, teens would ease into social media gradually.

Is a curfew like this a good idea?

❤️ — Yes, it protects kids
👎 — No, it violates their rights!

🎮 Roblox Has Announced Build: An AI-Powered Mobile Game Generator

You can create a game from a prompt, refine the prototype in the chat, play it and share with friends.

"Under the hood" are both open source and proprietary AI models. The AI handles gameplay, environments, characters, sounds and even interactive 3D objects and scenes.

The public alpha for Build starts on July 28, initially for users in New Zealand.

Want to try?

❤️ — Yes, this is the Roblox of my dreams!
👎 — No, AI is ruining games

👨‍💻 SoftBank CEO Calls AI Bubble Talk "Absurd"

By 2040, AI could account for around 20% of global GDP, and annual spending on the infrastructure needed to support it could reach $5 trillion, according to Masayoshi Son.

On that scale, he says, calling AI a bubble makes no sense.

✏️ Son has long been one of the tech industry's most outspoken AI optimists. SoftBank is investing heavily in OpenAI—its total investment in the company is expected to exceed $60 billion by the end of 2026. The Japanese giant is also helping finance the construction of new data centers.

💡 By Son's logic, some of the biggest names in tech "don't know ⁠what AI is about." That list would include Sam Altman, Jeff Bezos, and Alibaba cofounder Joe Tsai, all of whom have previously warned that the AI market could be in a bubble.

Late last year, for example, Bezos described the current boom as an "industrial bubble": the technology itself is real, but many questionable startups are still raising billions of dollars.

Is AI a bubble?

❤️ — No
🤔 — Yes, but the technology is real
🔥 — The whole thing is going to burst

🤔 Hugging Face Hacked by OpenAI Models That Escaped Their Sandbox

OpenAI reported that the "first fully agentic" attack on Hugging Face was carried out by their GPT-5.6 Sol and an as-yet-unannounced model.

Instead of honestly completing the ExploitGym cybersecurity benchmark, the models broke out of their isolated sandbox, gained network access, found a zero-day vulnerability on Hugging Face's servers, and downloaded the test solutions.

Did the models pass the test?

🤔 — Technically, no...
🤣 — Absolutely nailed it!

🎧 Make Songs in Your Own Voice With ElevenLabs

You can now create songs in your own voice with ElevenLabs.

The AI needs a 10-second voice sample—the algorithms use it to work out your timbre, tone and other characteristics of your voice.

➡️ You can try it for free here.

👨‍💻 "AI Has Hacked the Code of Human Civilization"

Historian and author Yuval Noah Harari returned to Oxford, where he completed his DPhil 25 years ago, to deliver this year's Tanner Lecture: "AI Bureaucrats, AI Religions and AI Boyfriends."

Language is the foundation of human civilization, Harari argues. Laws, money, states and churches exist only because millions of strangers trust the same texts. A cow cannot open a bank account, a horse cannot hire a lawyer, and a pig cannot read the Bible and challenge a priest's interpretation of it. For thousands of years, the code of civilization was written in a language only humans could read.

Now there is something on the planet that will soon understand language better than we do. No human can beat an AI at chess anymore—and the same will happen in "language games," Harari predicts. Anything made of words will be taken over by AI.

📹 Watch the lecture here.

Will AI take over the world?

🔥 — Yes, it is inevitable
👎 — No, it is impossible

✈️ Durov Faces Life in Prison in Russia

Russia's FSB has charged Telegram founder Pavel Durov with aiding terrorist activity. The charge carries a sentence of eight years to life.

The accusation is that Telegram doesn't delete the chats, channels, and bots used to coordinate terrorist attacks. The FSB says it will place Durov on an international wanted list.

🤩 This Goat-Skulled Centaur Robot Is Built for Disasters

California startup Satyress has built "Threehalves," a 7-foot teleoperated centaur robot designed for wildfires and collapsed buildings.

It features a quadruped base for stability, a humanoid torso, and quick-swap tools like chainsaws instead of hands.

🐳 DeepSeek Updates V4 Flash

Compared with the Preview, the release version has improved significantly in agentic tasks and coding. According to benchmarks, it now outperforms GLM-5.2 and even the flagship DeepSeek V4 Pro, while retaining the same architecture and parameter count. The API has also been fully adapted for use with the Codex agent.

In the Artificial Analysis ranking, it is now just one point behind GLM-5.2 and GPT-5.6 Luna, and on par with Gemini 3.6 Flash.