Good morning.
Another week. It’s Monday, August 24. — another chance to stay ahead of the curve.
A humanoid robot just shattered Usain Bolt’s decade old 100 meter world record at Beijing’s robot games, then crashed straight into a padded wall because nobody taught it how to stop. It is the kind of viral, slightly absurd milestone that says as much about how far humanoid robotics still has to go as it does about how far it has already come.
Today we are covering:
A humanoid robot breaks Usain Bolt’s 100 meter world record at the World Humanoid Robot Games in Beijing
Trump says communities that reject AI data centers are “making a mistake” in a new interview
Google, Microsoft and OpenAI face scrutiny over their playbook for winning over American schools
