AI & Robotics News — Sunday, August 30, 2026 | Compute Bulletin

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At your service: Hong Kong welcomes first humanoid robot-run convenience stores

SourcesSouth China Morning Post — Tech

02

SpaceX starts in-house turbine blade manufacturing to boost gas-powered generator output for Elon's AI data centers — new manufacturing…

SourcesTom's Hardware

03

MetaX swings to profit as Chinese AI chipmakers report diverging first-half results

SourcesSouth China Morning Post — Tech

04

Anthropic warns infostealer malware is hijacking Claude sessions to drain usage

SourcesBleepingComputer

05

Big Tech profits get $160bn boost from gains on stakes in other AI companies

SourcesFinancial Times AI

06

OpenAI issued warrants worth $5.5 billion in SB Energy, WSJ reports

SourcesReuters Technology

07

The $5.5 Billion Perk SoftBank’s Data-Center Venture Offered to Land OpenAI

SourcesWall Street Journal Technology

08

The edge AI wall: Why embodied AI requires new mathematics

SourcesThe Robot Report

09

Can robots save US manufacturing?

SourcesFinancial Times AI

10

G20 Warned Of Growing Threat to Financial Stability Posed By New AI Models

SourcesWall Street Journal Technology

11

Embodied-sync: Synchronize, calibrate, align, and validate multimodal robot-learning data across sensors, clocks, live sessions, and…

SourcesROS Discourse

12

Trump posts AI video of Iran's Kharg in 'smithereens', no evidence of attack

SourcesReuters Technology

13

Soitec locks customers into multi-year deals as AI wafer demand surges

SourcesReuters Technology

14

Caterpillar is bringing to AI deployment what it learned from automating mining

SourcesTechCrunch

15

Help Wanted: ‘Forward-Deployed’ Humans for the A.I. Era

SourcesNew York Times Technology

16

AI‑fuelled boom lifts global billionaire count, Hong Kong retains top spot in Asia

SourcesSouth China Morning Post — Tech

17

Singapore's developer scene was broken, not cracked. Vibe coding fixed it

SourcesBusiness Insider

18

China teen with zero programming skills earns US$2,600 in 3 days selling AI study app

SourcesSouth China Morning Post — Tech

19

British soldiers are figuring out where flying drones and ground robots fall short

SourcesBusiness Insider

20

AI agents need their own identity before they need a gateway

SourcesVentureBeat

21

Understanding ChatGPT Work

SourcesSimon Willison's Weblog

22

China’s robots race ahead

SourcesThe Verge

23

Inside Meta’s push to put robots to work in data centers

SourcesArs Technica

24

Not a token effort: beer meets artificial intelligence at bar in China’s capital

SourcesSouth China Morning Post — Tech

25

AI agents have no sense of time and are not aware of it

SourcesThe Decoder