RoboMaster 2026 is here! 🤖⚙️ Founded by DJI, the... world’s largest consumer drone maker based in Shenzhen, this is a global platform for robotics competition and academic exchange. From March to April, university teams across China are putting their engineering skills to the test. Video from RoboMaster机甲大师 DJI RoboMaster Tuo Liu tphuang Chris Paxton Ma Wukong 马悟空show more

This is why “decoupling with China” is a complete... myth. I’m here in Las Vegas attending CES the world’s largest tech show and was invited to join a Chinese Tech cocktail party this evening. Some of the brightest minds and entrepreneurs from China are in this room, including the founder of DJI There is ZERO chance the US could ever decouple from China. 1/3 of the companies in attendance at CES are from 🇨🇳 Mandarin is spoken all over the convention floor and every Chinese entrepreneur I speak is optimistic about the future and not worried at all about a Trump presidency. Remove yourself from the media who spreads lies and fear. Come to the trade shows and learn about how the real world works!show more

Visiting Shenzhen China 🇨🇳 today and wow! There is... no way someone can stand here and not be inspired by how much China has changed in the past 3 decades 🤯 There is not another city on the planet that has transformed the way Shenzhen has, once a fishing village of 25,000 people, it’s now home to 18 million people and the hub of tech and innovation in China 🇨🇳 This is the DJI headquarters, that’s right, the company that has emerged as the number one drone company in the world is based in this building Over 8,000 employees spread across offices, R&D Centers and testing facilities. This is honestly one of the most impressive buildings I’ve ever seen The British Trade Minister just visited Shenzhen for the FIRST time in 40 years last week and just think, how many politicians around the world could understand where China is and where it is going if they simply came and saw the truth with their own eyes. To borrow a phrase from my friend and China insider Shaun Rein the next China is China! 🚀show more

ENGINEAI just opened registration for URKL, a global humanoid... fighting league with an insane ¥10,000,000 (approx. $1.39 million) top prize. 🤖🥊 This is a massive engineering challenge focused on motion control and balance using the "T800" humanoid as the standard bot. The rules are strictly "non-violent," meaning no destructive mods are allowed. You win through better code and smarter protective gear. Here is the breakdown for teams looking to jump in: ➤ Massive Payouts: The winner takes ¥10,000,000 (approx. $1.39 million), second gets ¥2,000,000 (approx. $278,000), and third takes ¥1,000,000 (approx. $139,000). ➤ Hardware Perks: Every team that makes it into the Top 16 officially owns their T800 robot. ➤ Career Fast-Track: Top 8 finalists get a "Green Channel" straight to the final interview for job offers at ENGINEAI. ➤ Registration: Open from March 1 to April 30. Teams need at least 3 members with skills in control, electronics, or mechanical design. ➤ Global Finals: After the qualifiers, the world championship is set for December 2026 through January 2027. Once you are in, the committee hands over the simulation platform and T800 models to start training your boxing algorithms. Full Info: #Robot #Humanoid #Robotics #AI #EmbodiedAI #PhysicalAI #URKL #ENGINEAI #RobotFightingshow more

Ape Terminal IDO #40 🦍 KOI - KOI 🟠... KOI is a project incubated by Binance Labs, the venture capital and incubation arm of the world’s largest crypto exchange platform 🟠 KOI is the Consumer-AI Network for 𝕏 (Twitter), and connects over 3B+ Global Extension Users Backing from Binance Labs is the new meta. Most billion-dollar FDV listings of this year, such as Ethena and BounceBit, stood out due to Binance backing. KOI is lining up right in time to capitalize on this momentum, launching at an FDV of just $10M. Registrations are now LIVE:show more

SizeProp is now officially backed by the company behind... the legendary Pudgy Penguins franchise… Leading crypto-native prop trading platform SizeProp has just announced official backing from Igloo. Igloo is the team and powerhouse behind the legendary Pudgy Penguins franchise; likely crypto’s most successful consumer-facing IP. Though the announcement marks a major milestone in SizeProp’s journey, this is not its first collaboration with Pudgy Penguins, the pair having jointly run a trading competition in April 2026, prizes for which included funded accounts, $PENGU tokens, and Lil Pudgy NFTs. SizeProp is a unique, crypto-native form prop firm, allowing skilled individuals to trade with the firm's capital instead of risking their own cash. SizeProp itself is powered by cutting-edge infrastructure from Hyperliquid and trade.xyz. The platform has already issued a staggering $50+ million to traders that have proved their skills by passing SizeProp’s challenge.show more

US Politicians now moving to ban DJI drones from... the US market for “national security threats” 🤯 DJI is the #1 drone manufacturer in the world 🌎 but sadly politics could potentially ban any future drones from being imported and possibly grounding current drones inside the 🇺🇸 You can’t make up how ridiculous US politicians have become against China. These drones of course have zero threat to national security. We are NOT talking military drones here, but instead civilian level drones used for photography/videography 🎥 The US moves against China has become so irrational and petty. Just look at the name of the bill: “Countering CCP Drones Act” what an absolutely ridiculous name for a bill, it shows this is nothing more than a political stunt with once again the biggest losers of this bill being the average American consumer 🤦🏻‍♂️ As George Carlin once said: "Never underestimate the power of stupid people in large groups". Perfectly sums up the actions of the US Congress Full Article👇show more

Something big is happening in robotics - and it’s... hiding in plain sight. This post is not about dancing robots but in the data that powers them. Open robotics datasets have exploded this year, turning the field into a more scalable and collaborative ecosystem. In just two years, Hugging Face datasets grew from 11k to over 600k - and robotics is by far the fastest-growing segment. We went from 1k robotics datasets in 2024 to 27k in 2025! For comparison, text generation, the second-largest category, has only around 5k datasets in 2025. That gap is massive. Open datasets are important because robotics lives and dies by real-world robot data - video, actions, sensors, failures. By making this data easy to upload, reuse, and benchmark, researchers, startups, and large players are now releasing real-robot datasets that would have stayed locked inside labs just a few years ago. Major contributors include NVIDIA, LeRobot initiative, and a rapidly growing maker community. This surge is also enabled by cheaper video storage, better tooling, and an open-source AI culture now spilling into the physical world. And it really matters: open robotics data dramatically lowers entry barriers, accelerates learning-by-doing, and speeds up progress toward generalist and humanoid robots. Robotics won’t scale through hardware alone - but to a large extent through shared data. Viz below from AI World - link to the story and more viz/filters in comment.show more

global KICK gambling streamers ranking by followers growth (april... 2026) top 10: 1/ Zein (Stake) 2/ N3on (Gamdom) 3/ Clavicular (Stake) 4/ CryptoCosta (Stake) 5/ Maherco (Stake) 6/ wassimostv (Stake) 7/ STIVEN TC (Stake) 8/ adin (Rainbet) 9/ Mellstroy987 (Mellstroy Casino) 10/ Trainwreck (Stake) ranking is based on: new followers, and their % vs total audience Stake.com dominates again — 7/10 streamers, across 4 continents 6/10 streamers are new to the list (none of them ranked in march) Zein leads for the first time, replacing WESTCOL, who topped the march ranking N3on is now tied to Gamdom.com after the Motherland acquisition and CryptoCosta from Poland, 79% growth on 50k followers, fastest % gain in the list it's the names to watch.show more

Every dispute comes down to the facts. Finding them... is often the most manual, most expensive part of legal work. Legora is acquiring Wexler, the fact intelligence platform used by leading litigation and disputes teams, and by in-house legal teams at some of the world's largest companies. It will be our fifth acquisition in 2026. This matters because of where the work is heading. Agentic systems will not just handle more legal work. They will generate far more fact queries along the way. Most tools return summaries or loosely sourced excerpts. Wexler does something different: it runs documents through a gated pipeline that isolates discrete, verifiable happenings, who said what, to whom, when, and why it matters to the case, across more than 1,000,000 documents per matter. Founded in January 2023, Wexler built a team of 18, grew revenue eightfold year on year, and hit over 400% net revenue retention. They will become the founding team of Legora's new London engineering hub, and combined with our platform, Wexler's engine will become a fact layer underneath Legora's agentic workflows, from case chronologies for litigation teams to catching factual exposure before it becomes a claim. We'll be excited to welcome them to the team.show more

Walden Robotics came out of stealth with a $300M... seed at a $1.1B valuation. A Toyota Research Institute spinout (founded January), its thesis: the hard problem in robotics is now deployment, not research. So it's putting general-purpose humanoids to work on the repetitive tasks workers find burdensome. They're already running in a pilot at a North American Toyota plant: its robot works 8-hour shifts alongside human teams, loading and unloading car parts, cleaning machinery, and kitting for assembly. Team: led by CEO Russ Tedrake (MIT professor, ex-SVP of Large Behavior Models at TRI), with a founding group drawn largely from TRI's robotics team plus deployment and operations veterans. Full-stack: builds its own hardware, software, and AI models Backers: Toyota, NVIDIA, Boeing, Samsung Ventures, CoreWeave Ventures, Deviation Capital Cambridge, MA basedshow more

🚨 The CrowdStrike 2026 Global Threat Report is here.... In the age of AI, even less sophisticated threat actors can execute complex attacks, and advanced adversaries have become dramatically more dangerous. This year’s report exposes the latest tradecraft of the evasive adversary, who is supercharging attacks with AI and posing an unprecedented threat. Attacks by AI-enabled adversaries increased by 89% in 2025. The average eCrime breakout time plummeted to just 29 minutes. That’s a 65% increase in speed from 2024. And with adversaries using AI to accelerate their attacks and move fluidly across domains, they are evading detection more effectively than ever. Get the latest threat intel findings here:show more

We're excited to announce the launch of the Chainlink... Reserve, a new upgrade centered on the creation of a strategic onchain reserve of LINK tokens. The Chainlink Reserve is designed to support the long-term growth and sustainability of the Chainlink Network by accumulating LINK tokens using offchain revenue from large enterprises that are adopting the Chainlink standard and from onchain service usage. The Chainlink Reserve is being built up by using Payment Abstraction to convert offchain and onchain revenue into LINK, using a combination of Chainlink services and decentralized exchange infrastructure. Demand for Chainlink has already created hundreds of millions of dollars in revenue, substantially from large enterprises that have paid offchain for access to the Chainlink Platform. With increasing demand from a number of the world’s largest banking and capital markets institutions, this form of paying for the Chainlink standard is expected to grow into the future as the industry grows. The Reserve has already accumulated over $1M worth of LINK from this early stage launch phase, which is expected to gradually grow in the coming months as more revenue is converted into LINK and placed into the Reserve. We do not expect any withdrawals from the Reserve for multiple years and thus it is expected to grow over time. We believe that as the industry demand for Chainlink’s unique capabilities increases, that adoption of Chainlink services will enable the Reserve to grow further. 🧵👇show more

A Letter to Our Community: The Road Ahead for... Robotics To our Community and Partners, As we step into 2026, our mission at Axis is clearer than ever: Constructing the definitive End-to-End Scaling Layer for Robotics. Our goal is to accelerate the transfer of diverse human intelligence into Robotics General Intelligence (RGI). By owning the critical path of intelligence creation, we are turning the physical limitations of robotics into a scalable, software-driven future. Here is our strategic outlook and roadmap for the year ahead. The Core Thesis: Simulation is the Only Way Out The path to RGI is currently blocked by Data Scarcity, Generalization Fragility, and Hardware Fragmentation. At Axis, we believe Simulation is the only way out. Our Simulation Data Platform and Data Augmentation Engine transform raw data into "Synthetic Gold". Backed by academic milestones like Roboverse, Skill Blending, and GraspVLA, we have proven that pure simulation can achieve the generalization required for the real world. We don’t just collect data; we architect it. The Engine: Why Crypto? We believe RGI should come from all, not a few. Crypto is not just a feature; it is the primitive that powers our entire ecosystem flywheel: - Incentive Mechanism: Democratizing contribution and rewarding the trainers and developers. - Assetization: Turning proprietary data and refined models into liquid, ownable assets. - Verifiable Workflow: We are opening the "Black Box" of AI. By bringing total transparency to the Task Generation → Data Collection → Model Training pipeline, we ensure every byte of intelligence is verifiable, traceable, and secure. 2026 Strategic Deliverables This year, we are committed to delivering three foundational pillars: - The World's Largest Training Dataset for Robots: A robot training set—diverse, high-quality interaction data at an unprecedented scale. - A Robotics Foundation Model: A universal robotic brain trained on our pure simulation and synthetic data, capable of robust cross-embodiment transfer and open-world adaptability. - Evolvable Robot Hardware: Robots deployed with Axis models that autonomously evolve through continuous interaction, turning every deployment into a self-improving node within our RGI network. The Ultimate Vision We are building more than models; we are architecting the Distributed Machine Economy. A future where every dataset, model, and robotic embodiment is a verifiable asset in a global, autonomous network. Thank you for building the future of intelligence with us✌️📷show more

A Japanese blogger criticized a Chinese influencer for being... annoying in Nara, Japan. Here are my thoughts on this: First of all, the video wasn't even shot in Nara—it was taken at a zoo in China. Before pointing fingers, people should at least get their facts straight. I'll admit, I do find this girl's behavior somewhat annoying as well. But the truth is, it's not just China—countries all over the world have plenty of low-bar influencers who chase views with cheap, low-effort content. This is a global issue, not a problem unique to any one country. As for the deer in Nara, they have injured tourists from many different countries. Instead of putting all the blame on visitors, the local government should reflect on the situation and implement proper safety measures to prevent further incidents.show more

🚨 Serious Safety Concern: University Buses' Reckless Driving Putting... Student Lives at Risk in #Islamabad Today, a deeply troubling incident was reported from International Islamic University Islamabad (#IIUI), where a university bus narrowly avoided a major accident. The bus, while crossing an underpass, suffered a tire burst caused by the driver’s reckless over-speeding and sharp turning. This dangerous driving left students shaken, with one young female student fainting from the shock. Unfortunately, this is not an isolated incident. Students have repeatedly complained that university buses are driven carelessly, with drivers showing an alarming obsession with speed as if competing in a race while completely ignoring the safety of passengers. This negligence is putting lives at serious risk. The problem is not limited to university buses. Across Islamabad, especially with heavy vehicles belonging to government departments and institutions, reckless driving has become a dangerous norm. These vehicles are often driven “Fast & Furious” style, without consideration for passengers or other road users. 👉 It is high time the Islamabad administration and relevant authorities take strict action. University administrations must also be held accountable to ensure their drivers follow safety protocols. Student lives or any citizen’s life must not be put at risk due to irresponsible and unprofessional driving. 🔴 Safety must come first. Lives are too precious to be gambled with speed and negligence. DC Islamabad Islamabad Policeshow more

🇺🇦 In Paris, Ukrainians presented the unmanned surface drone... SIRENA at the EUROSATORY-2026 exhibition. The drone is equipped with powerful electronic warfare (EW) systems and anti-aircraft missiles. ▪️ The main feature of the complex is the integrated jammer, which operates across a wide frequency range — from 300 to 6000 MHz. Thanks to this, the platform can simultaneously block enemy communications, GNSS navigation signals, and drone control channels. ▪️ The effective radius of electronic suppression of enemy assets reaches 30 kilometers. To ensure high combat effectiveness, the drone is equipped with the Pelican V1 radar and the Scorpion V5 electronic warfare system. The drone can reach speeds of up to 90 km/h and carry up to 300 kg of payload. ▪️ SIRENA can also operate continuously for 24 hours, providing coastal defense and reconnaissance at distances of up to 800 kilometers. The SIRENA unmanned surface drone represents a significant advancement in Ukraine’s naval and coastal defense technologies. Its powerful electronic warfare capabilities combined with anti-aircraft systems make it a versatile tool for countering enemy drones, protecting maritime infrastructure, and conducting long-duration reconnaissance missions. Its presentation at a major international exhibition highlights the rapid development of Ukrainian defense innovation. Video is generated by grok AIshow more

For the first time in the history of automation,... the people most likely to be replaced are the ones building their own replacement, frame by frame, for a few dollars an hour. Across India, Nigeria, China, and Argentina, workers are strapping cameras to their heads and recording every fold of laundry, every stitch, every washed dish, and that footage is training the robots designed to do those exact jobs. This is documented, not rumor. No jokes! Garment workers in Tamil Nadu, India have been filmed wearing head-mounted cameras on the factory floor, sending point-of-view footage to data firms whose clients include Fortune 500 companies. One US company alone has hired thousands of workers across more than 50 countries to record themselves cooking, cleaning, and folding clothes. More than 6 billion dollars poured into humanoid robots last year, and the one ingredient every maker is starved for is precisely this: real human hands doing real human work. The endpoint is stated plainly by the buyers. In China, one supplier said his pitch to factories is to let workers wear the cameras now, because trained robots will eventually work there instead. The quiet part is the exchange itself. The worker is paid for the hour and keeps nothing after it. No share, no royalty, no ownership of the movements their own body is teaching the machine. The skill leaves their hands and becomes someone else's product, and almost no one along the chain sees the full shape of the trade, not always the person filming, not the millions who watch the clip and scroll on. One scene holds all of it. A humanoid robot spent an hour folding three shirts while a human housekeeper, hired to guide it, quietly finished the rest of the chores. Every automation before this arrived from the outside. A machine showed up and took the job. This one is being built from the inside, by the workers themselves, handing over the last thing they had left to sell. UBI ? or something totally else should pave the way in the future? Thoughts?show more

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Agility Robotics and Boston Dynamics to Unitree: “Go back... to China!” Leading US robotics companies have expressed support for the restrictions. Agility CEO Peggy Johnson issued a statement endorsing the GUARD Act, saying it “sends an important market signal as US robotics companies continue investing in resilient supply chains, domestic manufacturing capabilities, and trusted technologies.” In a recent interview with futurist Peter Diamandis, she said the Oregon-based robotics firm has been working with the Trump Administration. “We have an administration that’s very focused on the humanoid robots not going the way drones did,” she said. “We used to actually have a drone industry in the US and it’s largely gone offshore. They’re trying to prevent that same thing from happening to humanoids.” Earlier this year, Boston Dynamics sent its VP of software, Matthew Malcano, to Washington to testify before Congress about its biggest overseas rival. “Unitree is rapidly capturing market share in the US university, research, and law enforcement markets,” he said. “Researchers have reported crucial Unitree cybersecurity vulnerabilities. Unitree’s robots have also been seen in PLA military exercises and its ties to Chinese military have been noted by the House Select Committee on China as well as the Department of War.” Back in 2021, Unitree joined Boston Dynamics, Agility, ANYbotics and others in signing a pledge to not weaponize its autonomous machines. The company insists that its robots, including its new $650,000 rideable Mecha, are for civilian use only.show more