Toyota Plans 400,000 Robots In $6.4 Billion Physical AI Bet

Toyota estimates it needs 400,000 robots and $6.4B a year from 2028 to power its physical AI factory push.

Toyota estimates it needs 400,000 robots and $6.4B a year from 2028 to power its physical AI factory push.


Google has launched Gemini 3.8 Live with Live Avatar, adding a real-time animated video persona to conversational AI across 97 languages.

Pony.ai and GAC Commercial Vehicle unveiled a Level 4 autonomous electric heavy-duty robotruck at IAA Transportation 2026 in Hannover.

DeepSeek joins OpenAI and Anthropic at a UN Security Council session Wednesday on AI risks, as France calls for global dialogue on advanced model safety.

Security researchers used Anthropic's Claude to breach an OpenAI employee's ChatGPT account and reach internal code, the Wall Street Journal reports.

Four paying subscribers filed a federal antitrust lawsuit accusing Anthropic, OpenAI, SpaceXAI and Google of an illegal pact to slow AI development.

Alibaba's Qwen3.8-Omni-Flash combines a 1M-token omnimodal context, big benchmark gains, and a 98 percent audio price cut.

Meta has begun production of Iris, its third-generation custom MTIA AI accelerator designed with Broadcom and fabbed by TSMC, anchoring a plan to double computing capacity from 7 to 14 gigawatts by 2027.