01 Toyota orders workers to train humanoid robots but says humans won't be replaced SourcesGadget Review·Ars Technica
03 Alexandr Wang's relentless 'tweet cannon' is Meta's not-so-secret weapon in the AI promo war SourcesBusiness Insider
06 Chinese maker of robot-vacuum sensors Launches Hong Kong IPO, undeterred by US ban SourcesSouth China Morning Post
07 Robotiq Releases Open-Source Software Packages for the Physical AI Ecosystem SourcesRoboticsTomorrow
12 Anthropic Releases cheaper model in first launch since slowdown calls SourcesThe Information·Financial Times·The Verge·TechCrunch·Zvi Mowshowitz·The Decoder·The New Stack·Simon Willison's Weblog
15 Snorkel AI triples valuation to $3.5B as demand for AI training data booms SourcesProgressive Robot·TechCrunch
17 Qualcomm to Acquire PickNik to Advance the Future of Open Robotics and Physical AI SourcesRoboticsTomorrow
18 Nscale’s $35 billion IPO is largely silent about its biggest customer in 2025, China’s ByteDance, which wants access to Nvidia’s chips SourcesFortune
21 Alibaba Unveils Roadmap on Full-Stack AI Strategy from Chips, Cloud Infrastructure, Models to Agents SourcesHPCwire
23 Australia slams ‘unacceptable’ OpenAI breach of government health portal SourcesSouth China Morning Post