Honor’s Robot phone is real, and coming later this year
Honor’s Robot phone is real, and coming later this year

The camera nods, dances to music, and tracks faces. The rest of the specs are a secret. Something unusual happened at Mobile World Congress this year. A device sat in a glass case at the Honor booth in Hall 3,  present, demonstrably functional, perform…

Honor’s Robot phone is real, and coming later this year
Honor’s Robot phone is real, and coming later this year

The camera nods, dances to music, and tracks faces. The rest of the specs are a secret. Something unusual happened at Mobile World Congress this year. A device sat in a glass case at the Honor booth in Hall 3,  present, demonstrably functional, perform…

Honor’s Robot phone is real, and coming later this year
Honor’s Robot phone is real, and coming later this year

The camera nods, dances to music, and tracks faces. The rest of the specs are a secret. Something unusual happened at Mobile World Congress this year. A device sat in a glass case at the Honor booth in Hall 3,  present, demonstrably functional, perform…

OpenAI’s robotics chief quits over the Pentagon deal
OpenAI’s robotics chief quits over the Pentagon deal

Caitlin Kalinowski spent 16 months building OpenAI’s physical AI programme. On Saturday, she said the company moved too fast on something too important. The week that began with Anthropic being blacklisted by the Pentagon and ended with OpenAI taking i…

OpenAI’s robotics chief quits over the Pentagon deal
OpenAI’s robotics chief quits over the Pentagon deal

Caitlin Kalinowski spent 16 months building OpenAI’s physical AI programme. On Saturday, she said the company moved too fast on something too important. The week that began with Anthropic being blacklisted by the Pentagon and ended with OpenAI taking i…

OpenAI’s robotics chief quits over the Pentagon deal
OpenAI’s robotics chief quits over the Pentagon deal

Caitlin Kalinowski spent 16 months building OpenAI’s physical AI programme. On Saturday, she said the company moved too fast on something too important. The week that began with Anthropic being blacklisted by the Pentagon and ended with OpenAI taking i…

Netflix buys Ben Affleck’s AI filmmaking startup
Netflix buys Ben Affleck’s AI filmmaking startup

InterPositive, a stealth company Affleck founded in 2022 and never publicly acknowledged, builds post-production AI tools trained on real footage rather than text prompts. Netflix is acquiring it just as Hollywood unions sit down for a new round of con…

French quantum startup Pasqal to list on Nasdaq via SPAC at a $2bn valuation
French quantum startup Pasqal to list on Nasdaq via SPAC at a $2bn valuation

The neutral-atom quantum computing company, co-founded by Nobel laureate Alain Aspect, has announced a business combination with Bleichroeder Acquisition Corp. II, with the deal expected to close in the second half of 2026. When Alain Aspect shared the…

Revolut applies for a US bank charter
Revolut applies for a US bank charter

The London-headquartered neobank has submitted applications to the OCC and the FDIC to establish Revolut Bank US, N.A., committing $500m to the American market and appointing a former Visa executive as its new US CEO. In early 2021, Revolut told the wo…

Pentagon labels Anthropic a supply-chain risk
Pentagon labels Anthropic a supply-chain risk

The US Department of War has issued the first such designation ever applied to an American company, demanding that defence contractors certify they do not use Claude. Anthropic says the action is unlawful and retaliatory. For months, the conversations …