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The company behind ChatGPT and Sora is quietly hiring its way back into robotics. Five years ago, OpenAI shut down its own robotics division and called the path a dead end.

Americans lost roughly $890 million to AI-related fraud last year, and AI voice-cloning scams are the fastest-growing slice of it. A few seconds of audio is all a scammer needs to clone a loved one's voice — and the FBI and experts admit even they can no longer reliably tell real from fake. Instead of trusting your own ears, lock in a few fixed defenses — starting with a family "safe word."

Tokyo startup Asilla has bolted behavior-recognition AI onto ordinary surveillance cameras, training it to flag people who pace at a platform edge or linger by a rooftop railing and alert security the moment something looks wrong. The AI video-analytics system was trained on roughly 7 million clips and now runs across about 40 stations and malls in Tokyo and Kanagawa, where it has already intercepted at least two people.

At the Shangri-La Dialogue in Singapore in late May, several defense experts ranked the risks of military AI ahead of nuclear weapons. What truly alarms them is that AI is compressing military decisions to a speed the human brain simply can't keep up with.

Feed an AI a deceased person's chat logs and voice recordings and you get a conversational "digital clone" — what's now called a deathbot or griefbot. Some people find real healing in it; others worry it keeps the grieving from ever letting go.

NVIDIA, with Hong Kong Polytechnic University and Nanjing University, has released LocateAnything, an open-source visual grounding model: give it one image and one sentence, and it draws a box around whatever you asked for. Thanks to a new "draw the whole box at once" parallel-decoding method, it locates nearly 13 targets per second on a single top-end GPU — outpacing comparable models on both speed and accuracy — and it's free to download.

Chinese humanoid-robot maker Unitree alone holds **32.3%** of the global market. In just two years, the price of a humanoid robot has fallen from that of a luxury car to that of a smartphone.

Google has broken ground in Visakhapatnam, southern India, on its largest AI data center outside the United States, backed by a $15 billion, five-year commitment. The state of Andhra Pradesh has pledged roughly **₹2.2 trillion** in waivers and subsidies — and the campus's water demand is so heavy that local groundwater has fallen as much as 9 meters in a single year.

Cross-referencing 2026 reports from Randstad, the World Economic Forum, and Deloitte: Gen Z is projected to hold 18 jobs across 6 distinct careers over a lifetime, switching roles on average every 1.1 years. Fifteen years ago, their counterparts stayed in a single job for an average of 8 years.

Japanese magazine Shukan Bunshun broke the story over three straight weeks, and the creator behind the AI videos confirmed it on camera on YouTube. Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi denies everything — but the doubts are now spreading inside her own party, the LDP.

On May 25, Pope Leo XIV released his first encyclical, *Magnifica Humanitas* ("The Splendor of Humanity"). It is the first papal encyclical in Catholic Church history to center on artificial intelligence — and Anthropic co-founder Chris Olah was there for its launch.

PrismML, a startup founded by a Caltech team, has released Bonsai Image 4B — a free, open-source on-device AI image generator. It runs entirely on iPhone, iPad, and Mac, fully offline, turning a single sentence into an image without ever touching the cloud.