AI news of 30 August 2026 · Robots Versus Humans

Caterpillar is bringing to AI deployment what it learned from automating mining Opens at the publisher in a new tab

Caterpillar applies decades of autonomous mining machine experience to broader AI deployment strategies.

China's robotics industry is advancing rapidly in the US-China AI race.

Haiku R1 beta6 release announced.

METR and Redwood release postmortem analysis of HuggingFace security incident.

Anthropic reduces Claude Code weekly limits by 17 percent after temporary boost expires.

Tencent releases Hy4, a 770B parameter open-weight language model with 1M token context window.

Google's Gemini Omni 1.1 Flash video model improves consistency and reduces cost of AI-generated video extensions.

LAION releases 80 million video dataset for AI training, beating previous benchmarks in model performance metrics.

Google Deepmind's AI Co-Scientist now designs experiments, operates lab equipment and writes research papers across multiple disciplines.

OpenAI is testing always-on AI agents that generate their own tasks without human instruction.

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