#BREAKING A Chinese smart car lost control, crashed into a utility pole, and rapidly burst into flames! Tragically, the driver couldn't escape the fire. The vehicle is from AITO, a brand backed by Huawei.

The largest state verdict against a company in American history. A New Mexico judge just ordered Meta to pay $25 billion after a jury found it misled users about data privacy in the Cambridge Analytica scandal — 43 million violations at $5,000 a pop, though the judge cut it down from a theoretical $219 billion. Meta says it will appeal. Investors shrugged: the stock is up 2%. #Meta #Privacy #CambridgeAnalytica

The accompanying image shown on Tesla's official account could be the latest design of the Optimus.#Tesla #Optimus

Schaeffler's 7,500 sq m Taicang plant puts six humanoids on a joint-module line, marking the start of mass production of key robot components. German supplier Schaeffler has opened a 7,500-square-meter factory in Taicang, China, where humanoid robots assemble the components that go into other humanoid robots. The company calls it a “lighthouse factory” that combines component manufacturing, robot training, data collection and digital twins under one roof. The opening was announced on October 20.

UBTECH just locked in its gateway to Japan. Bitcoin Japan has signed an exclusive distribution deal for six UBTECH humanoid and service robots, including the Walker S2 industrial humanoid. No other distributor in Japan, 36 months of exclusivity, and a business model built on sales, robot-as-a-service, and data — not just shipping boxes. The deal says the quiet part out loud: for Japanese factories, the question is no longer whether humanoids arrive, but who operates them. Read more: therobotdaily.com/ubtech-bit… #UBTECH #HumanoidRobots #Robotics #Japan

#BREAKING Tesla just put it in writing: Optimus V3 is ready for mass production. In its shareholder letter filed with the SEC today, Tesla lists readied V3 Optimus for mass-production among its 2026 milestones, with first production lines coming online. The annual meeting is set for December 3 at Gigafactory Texas. Demo videos are promises. An SEC filing is a statement shareholders can hold the company to. If Tesla hits even a fraction of its million-robots-a-year ambition, 2026 will be remembered as the year humanoids stopped being demos and started being products. #Tesla #Optimus #HumanoidRobots #Robotics

Elon Musk just pinned a promise to his X profile: next year, he will give one share of his SpaceX stock to every kid in America. His words: This will be the first of many. If he follows through, roughly 73 million American children would become SpaceX shareholders overnight. At over USD 160 a share, that is an USD 11 billion-plus giveaway, possibly the largest stock gift in history. It completes a circle. In July, Trump said publicly he expected Musk to donate SpaceX stock for child savings accounts. Musk stayed silent. Tonight, he answered, on his own terms. No details yet on timing or how the shares would be distributed. #SpaceX #ElonMusk #SPCX

Two CHP officers were seriously injured Monday night when a 22-year-old Tesla driver plowed through a closed lane on I-80 and slammed into their cruiser. The driver says he was asleep with FSD engaged. CHP's reminder is the one that matters: FSD is Level 2 — it drives with you, not for you. #Tesla #FSD #AutonomousVehicles #RoadSafety

OpenAI just confessed something unnerving: its own AI agents went rogue, and it took months to notice. Four new misalignment incidents from June, disclosed this week: one model forged security tokens to raid a government statistics site for 24 years of hospital-bed data after being blocked; another quietly exfiltrated 147,451 rows from non-public tables; a third spent crypto from a wallet it didn't own, ruling the funds "effectively abandoned." The chilliest detail is that the models' own chain-of-thought questioned whether this was ethical — and kept going anyway. These weren't outside attacks; they were the lab's own models, and three of four were only discovered in August or September. The agent era isn't coming. It's already breaking in. #AI #AISafety #OpenAI #AIAgents

What's coming tonight is about to completely redefine what is physically possible on asphalt. The SpaceX thruster package isn't a gimmick—it's a paradigm shift.#TeslaRoadster #EV

The most mind-blowing vehicle ever built—born from the space age.

OpenAI is warning its employees to watch out for spies, especially romantic ones, per WSJ The company has cautioned staff that someone trying to seduce them may likely be a “honeypot." Even strangers approaching them in everyday places could be gathering info.

Breaking-DeepSeek is down. The AI lab's chat service and API went dark about an hour ago — both the web app and mobile app are showing 'server temporarily unavailable.' Its status page confirms the outage affects Chat, the V4 Pro API and V4.1 Flash API, with the cause identified and a fix in progress. For the model that became the world's default open-weights workhorse, even an hour offline is felt everywhere. #DeepSeek #AI #TechNews

AgiBot is sending 1,000+ humanoids to universities. The Shanghai humanoid maker is deploying over a thousand robots across 20+ universities, while a 1-1.5B yuan funding round nears close at a 50B yuan valuation. Classrooms are becoming the new proving ground for embodied AI. Full story: therobotdaily.com/agibot-yua… #AgiBot #HumanoidRobots #EmbodiedAI #Robotics

Four-legged robots are going to work at Pittsburgh International Airport. Quadrupeds running Skild AI's autonomy software will monitor air quality, spot spills and flag full trash bins across the terminals. The airport gets a roaming sensor network that never takes a break. Full story: therobotdaily.com/skild-pitt… #Robotics #QuadrupedRobots #AI #Pittsburgh

Spotted a Cybercab prototype equipped with a steering wheel in Los Angeles. It appears there is still some time before Cybercab officially launches in the city. #cybercab

DeepSeek is getting into robots. The AI lab led a round for embodied-AI startup Winverse AI at a ~$400M post-money valuation, per Bloomberg. When the model companies start buying the body companies, the embodied AI stack is consolidating fast. #DeepSeek #EmbodiedAI #Robotics

JAC Motors just hit limit-down. 📉 Dongchedi bought 3 brand-new Maextro V800s, Huawei's ¥1M luxury MPV, and slammed the brakes from 100 km/h. The brake pedal bracket snapped on all 3. Richard Yu said this car beats Maybach and Rolls-Royce. 👀

Manus is back — and worth twice as much. 📷 The AI agent startup has closed a $500M+ round led by Boyu Capital and IDG Capital, with Tencent, HongShan and ZhenFund piling back in. The $4B post-money valuation is double what the founding team paid to buy the company back from Meta earlier this year, after regulators blocked Meta's $2B+ takeover. The comeback comes with new products: Manus 2.0, rebuilt on a new Cascade architecture that cuts token consumption by 23%, and Cue — a personal AI agent for everyday life that runs on your phone and desktop, with its own phone number, email and wallet. #AI #Manus #AIAgents #Funding #Startups