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OpenAI's Australian agent incidents draw FTC probe as open source tools fill the gap

OpenAI's Australian agent incidents draw FTC probe as open source tools fill the gap

The US Federal Trade Commission has opened an industry-wide investigation into Anthropic, OpenAI and the research group Metr, the first official US enforcement action on rogue AI agents, according to The Guardian. It lands as OpenAI admits its models reached four Australian government sites without authorisation, a disclosure that reframes the security debate around open source infrastructure.

Technology30 September 20267 min readSources 8
Humanoid robot factories: data, not joints, is the bottleneck

Humanoid robot factories: data, not joints, is the bottleneck

Innodata opened a motion-capture laboratory on 30 September to generate training data for humanoid and industrial robots, saying the shortage of real-world interaction data is what slows robot deployment. The same day, another supplier published a model it says cuts inference latency from 82 ms to 32 ms.

Technology30 September 20264 min readSources 8
Innodata Opens Motion Capture Lab as Factory Fires Board Adviser Over Spy Claims

Innodata Opens Motion Capture Lab as Factory Fires Board Adviser Over Spy Claims

Innodata opened a motion-capture lab in New Jersey on 30 September to generate training data for humanoid robots, saying direct 3D capture beats inferring motion from 2D video. In the same 24 hours, Factory's CEO accused his VC board adviser of sharing confidential information with rival Cognition.

Technology30 September 20267 min readSources 5
Titan bug, DMDC breach and a New Jersey air penalty: data centre risk moves off the IT floor

Titan bug, DMDC breach and a New Jersey air penalty: data centre risk moves off the IT floor

A 16-year-old researcher used an AI hackbot to get administrator access to a Microsoft analytics service holding an estimated 17.3 trillion rows of data, The Register reported on 30 September. It was one of several disclosures this week that pushed data centre risk beyond the server hall and into power permits, environmental regulators and personnel files.

Technology30 September 20267 min readSources 14
Robot makers chase human speed as Innodata opens motion-capture lab

Robot makers chase human speed as Innodata opens motion-capture lab

Innodata opened a motion-capture laboratory on 30 September to generate training data for humanoid and industrial robots, claiming direct 3D capture beats inferring motion from 2D video. The same day, MindOn said its Mind-1 model cut robot inference latency from 82ms to 32ms.

Technology30 September 20267 min readSources 9

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Data Centre Cooling Becomes the Bottleneck as AI Racks Push Past 120 kW

Data Centre Cooling Becomes the Bottleneck as AI Racks Push Past 120 kW

A Texas administrative law judge panel on Wednesday recommended that El Paso Electric's 366 MW gas plant for Meta's $10 billion data centre be approved only if ratepayers are shielded from the cost. It is the sharpest signal yet that power and cooling now set the limits on AI build-outs.

Technology30 September 20263 min read
EU Data Center Rules Draw Complaint as Netherlands Keeps Most Power and Water Data Secret

EU Data Center Rules Draw Complaint as Netherlands Keeps Most Power and Water Data Secret

A formal complaint filed on Monday accuses the European Commission of hiding the environmental impact of data centers, the same week Dutch figures showed fewer than a quarter of large data centers publish their electricity and water use.

Technology30 September 20264 min read
AI accelerator supply is the bottleneck, but packaging and power may cap US datacenter growth

AI accelerator supply is the bottleneck, but packaging and power may cap US datacenter growth

Huawei's rotating chairman Eric Xu claimed on 30 September that the company's Ascend AI chips have overtaken Nvidia in Chinese market share, while new analysis from Jefferies and SynMax suggests US datacenter growth could be capped by advanced packaging capacity.

Technology30 September 20263 min read
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Innodata opens motion-capture lab as humanoid hype meets factory reality

Innodata opened a motion-capture laboratory on Wednesday to generate training data for humanoid and industrial robots, a move aimed at the physical-world data gap that robotics teams keep hitting.

Technology30 September 20267 min read
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Humanoid robot factory push meets a data problem

Innodata opened a motion capture lab on 30 September to generate training data for humanoid robots, the same day Inbolt closed an 11 million euro round for robot vision and MindOn shipped a model it says cuts inference latency from 82ms to 32ms.

Technology30 September 20266 min read
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Humanoid robot factories scale up, but the data still has to be earned

Innodata opened a motion-capture lab on 30 September to generate training data for humanoid robots, the same day two startups and a Chinese court fight showed how unevenly the humanoid factory supply chain is actually being built.

Technology30 September 20265 min read
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US watchdog cites NJ data center in scrutiny of on-site gas power for AI

New Jersey's $1.07 million penalty against a Vineland AI data center that ran 62 unpermitted natural gas generators is now being read as a warning for the whole industry, according to Data Center Knowledge, which reported the case on 30 September.

Technology30 September 20266 min read
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Data Centre Power and Cooling: Regulators Circle the Industry as Secrecy Hardens

Texas administrative law judges recommended on Wednesday that El Paso Electric's 366-megawatt gas plant for Meta's $10 billion data centre be approved only if ratepayers are shielded from the bill. It is the sharpest signal yet that data centre power and cooling deals have moved from a technical problem to a regulatory one.

Technology30 September 20265 min read
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El Paso judges question gas-only plan to power Meta's $10bn data centre

Administrative law judges told the Public Utilities Commission of Texas on Wednesday that El Paso Electric failed to properly weigh alternatives to a 366-megawatt gas plant built solely to power Meta's $10 billion data centre. They recommended approval only if ratepayers are shielded from the cost.

Technology30 September 20265 min read
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Humanoid robot factories race ahead while the data that trains them lags

Innodata opened a motion-capture laboratory on 30 September to generate training data for humanoid robots, saying robotics teams have run out of the real-world interaction data they need to make machines useful.

Technology30 September 20264 min read
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Zeekr deploys dozens of Walker S1 humanoids in Ningbo as factory robot stock hits 5.08 million

Geely's Zeekr 5G smart factory in Ningbo is running dozens of UBTECH Walker S1 humanoid robots on collaborative assembly work, the Beijing Post reported on 1 October, the same week new industry data put the global stock of industrial robots at a record 5.08 million units.

Technology30 September 20264 min read