AI news of 24 August 2026 · Robots Versus Humans

Humanoid robots smash Usain Bolt’s 100-meter record

Chinese humanoid robots ran 100 meters faster than Usain Bolt's world record at Beijing competition.

Tiangong Ultra (left) also broke the 400 meter world record during this year’s World Humanoid Robot Games. | Image: Lintao Zhang/Getty Images The 9.58-second 100-meter dash record set by Usain Bolt in 2009 has been outpaced by Chinese robots participating at the World Humanoid Robot Games in Beijing. In a preliminary heat on Saturday, Tiangong Ultra, made by the Beijing Humanoid Robot Innovation Center, ran the distance in 9.39 seconds, followed by the Honor-developed Lightning at 9.47 seconds. It's one of several notable achievements to take place at the event, which can best be described as a sort of annual robot olympics that's designed to showcase advancements in bipedal bot technology. After launching in 2025, 2,056 robots from 16 countries…

The Verge 1mo ago

GPT-5.6

Advancing price-performance for developers with GPT‑5.6 in Kiro Opens at the publisher in a new tab

OpenAI releases GPT-5.6 model with improved price-performance for software development tasks.

OpenAI 1mo ago

AI hardware

Up to 30x More Work Per Watt: NVIDIA Vera Rubin NVL72 Sets a New Efficiency Standard for AI Agents

NVIDIA Vera Rubin NVL72 achieves 30x efficiency gains for agentic AI workloads.

Nvidia Blog 1mo ago

AI agents, robotics

Valor, Point72 back General Intuition at $6B valuation as AI startup pushes into robotics

General Intuition raises $6 billion to develop foundation models for AI agents and robotics.

TechCrunch 1mo ago

AI hardware

With Groq 3 LPX in Full Production, NVIDIA Extends Vera Rubin Inference for Agents

NVIDIA extends Vera Rubin inference system to support AI agents with Groq 3 LPX.

Nvidia Blog 1mo ago

AI accelerators

Cerebras unveils CS-4 with double the performance on the same chip

Cerebras announces CS-4 AI accelerator chip with double the performance of previous generation.

The Decoder 1mo ago

video generation

Alibaba's Wan3.0 generates AI videos up to 30 seconds long from text, images, and documents

Alibaba releases Wan3.0 video generation model creating 30-second clips from text and documents.

The Decoder 1mo ago

AI agents

OpenAI is building AI agents for everything. Will everyone use them? Opens at the publisher in a new tab

OpenAI develops AI agents designed for widespread adoption across various applications and industries.

TechCrunch 1mo ago

datacentre infrastructure

Data centers become "killer application" for new power transformer tech

Solid-state transformer technology makes datacentres more efficient, with potential applications in EV charging.

Ars Technica 1mo ago

AI in education

How to encourage smarter AI use in the classroom

Educators develop methods to help students use AI chatbots more effectively in schools.

MIT Technology Review 1mo ago

Humanoid robots smash Usain Bolt’s 100-meter record

Advancing price-performance for developers with GPT‑5.6 in Kiro Opens at the publisher in a new tab

Up to 30x More Work Per Watt: NVIDIA Vera Rubin NVL72 Sets a New Efficiency Standard for AI Agents

Valor, Point72 back General Intuition at $6B valuation as AI startup pushes into robotics

With Groq 3 LPX in Full Production, NVIDIA Extends Vera Rubin Inference for Agents

Cerebras unveils CS-4 with double the performance on the same chip

Alibaba's Wan3.0 generates AI videos up to 30 seconds long from text, images, and documents

OpenAI is building AI agents for everything. Will everyone use them? Opens at the publisher in a new tab

Data centers become "killer application" for new power transformer tech

How to encourage smarter AI use in the classroom

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