Figure has committed an initial $3.5 billion in compute from AI infrastructure provider Nscale, securing a path to as many as 100,000 NVIDIA Vera Rubin GPUs to scale its Helix AI models for humanoid r…
Figure AI has signed a $3.5 billion compute deal with UK-based Nscale to deploy up to 100,000 NVIDIA Vera Rubin GPUs for training its Helix AI models, with the deal expected to grow beyond $6 billion.…
Brett Adcock's AI lab Hark introduced Handoff, a browser agent that can order food, book travel, shop, and complete other tasks across the open web, on August 5th. Handoff scored 97.7% on the human-ev…
Hark founder Brett Adcock announced Handoff on August 5, 2026, the company's first public product, an AI agent that operates a virtual computer to complete multi-step tasks such as recruiting, booking…
Hark, a startup that raised $700 million in Series A funding in May, launched Hark Handoff, a browser-use agent that can complete tasks such as ordering food, booking travel, and shopping on websites …
Figure has reportedly manufactured its 1,000th humanoid robot at its BotQ facility in San Jose, according to a robotics-industry account surfaced by Aligned News, though the company has not confirmed …
OpenAI's first hardware device is a screenless, movable smart speaker designed as a humanlike AI companion that integrates with ChatGPT, according to a Bloomberg report citing anonymous sources. The d…
The richest people in AI include Chen Tianshi ($40B), Greg Brockman ($28B), Liang Wenfeng ($27B), Brett Adcock ($19B), and Edwin Chen ($16B), with fortunes tied to stakes in Cambricon Technologies, Op…
BMW Group announced that Figure AI's humanoid robot, Figure 02, supported production of over 30,000 BMW X3 vehicles over ten months at Plant Spartanburg, marking a key operational milestone for humano…
BMW Group will deploy Figure 03 humanoid robots at its Spartanburg plant after a successful 11-month pilot with Figure 02, which produced over 30,000 BMW X3 vehicles. The new robots will handle logist…
Figure AI's humanoid robot Figure 03 will begin a logistics sequencing job at BMW Group Plant Spartanburg, moving parts from the body shop to final assembly. BMW's workforce has declined from a 2024 p…
Figure AI's Helix-02 humanoid robot operated autonomously for over 200 hours, sorting 149,000 packages without intervention. China mandated 10,000 humanoid deployments by end of 2026, while three Chin…
Figure, a San Jose-based robotics company, completed a 200-hour continuous package-sorting operation using its Figure 03 robots, sorting 249,560 packages over nine days without failure. The marathon s…
Figure AI has signed a commercial agreement with Catalyst Brands, the parent company of JCPenney, Brooks Brothers, and Aéropostale, to deploy humanoid robots at a distribution center in Reno, Nevada. …
Hark, an AI lab founded by Brett Adcock, raised $700 million in a Series A round at a $6 billion valuation to develop a secretive "universal" AI interface combining models and hardware for a personal …
Figure AI livestreamed its humanoid robots autonomously sorting and placing packages onto a conveyor belt for nearly a week, a demo that went viral and included a robot competing against a human inter…