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Mode:·AI progress that became real (usable, deployed, signed, approved, or released). All reports.
Monumental’s construction robots completed the brickwork for a semi-detached home in a new community. The house-scale task moves robotic masonry beyond a small demonstration. The machines laid roughly 20,000 bricks.
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On August 15, 2026, a woman joined a lawsuit against xAI, adding a specific alleged case of AI-enabled sexual abuse material to a legal challenge over safeguards in consumer image-generation tools. She alleges that her stepfather used Grok to turn a photograph of her at age 11 into more than 7,000 explicit images. The suit says xAI failed to take basic precautions against sexualized images of real people, including minors, and its outcome could affect what providers are expected to do to prevent non-consensual sexual imagery.
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A sub-24-hour path from digital design to a physical part can shorten prototyping and manufacturing iteration cycles. Protolabs says it turns customer CAD files into production parts in under 24 hours. Its workflow combines AI, simulation and design-for-manufacturing systems.
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Creators can now export media generated with Gemini and Flow without a Google mark in the corner. Google added a setting that disables the visible sparkle watermark on generated images, videos and music. Viewers lose an immediate visual cue that the material was made with AI.
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The new center gives Indonesia a university base for building local AI skills and projects. Universitas Gadjah Mada, Indosat and NVIDIA launched it in Yogyakarta with support from Indonesia’s communications ministry. NVIDIA described it as the country’s first university-based center of its kind.
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Construction approval cleared a regulatory gate for a proposed addition to west London’s computing infrastructure. Planning documents put the facility at up to 50,000 square meters with 64 MW of electricity use. They list 48 MW of planned IT load.
Apple reportedly adapted its AI work for China by developing a custom language model with Alibaba. Alibaba supported the model’s training. The account came from three unnamed people familiar with the work.
Announced or reported, but not yet real or available.
Waiting on: Product release - Malaysia is preparing the palm-oil-based fluid for launch, and it is still forthcoming.
Waiting on: Deployment - Neros is developing the control system and plans to deploy its defense drones by the end of 2026.
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