Robots Protest, Tesla Stalls & $3.5B Robot Bet | The AI Verge | Ep26 #AI #Robotics

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Thirty humanoid robots just marched through Warsaw demanding AI regulation — while the labs building their brains admit they can't pay the power bill. In this episode of The AI Verge, we cover Tesla's CyberCab launch collapsing into a federal probe, Figure AI's $3.5 billion compute bet, a fighting robot winning a Golden Buzzer, and why your Apple Watch is about to listen to everything. Today's topics: - 30 robots protest for AI oversight in Warsaw - Tesla CyberCab stalls, faces federal investigation - Hidden joystick found in "fully autonomous" cab - Waymo expands to Lyft in Nashville - Figure AI's $3.5B deal for 100,000 Nvidia GPUs - Unitree robot fights autonomously, wins Golden Buzzer - China freezes humanoid robot IPOs after 45% crash - Token costs crash below $1 per million - Enterprises ditch frontier models for distilled ones - Anthropic resignation, 10% extinction warning - Apple Watch Live Rewind listens continuously - Positron raises $875M to challenge Nvidia - OpenAI pauses $200 Pro signups - DeepSeek V4.1 Flash, Cohere Translate, Kriya memory agents - Roomba Duo, elder-care Duva, egg-cooking Igor - Zero-shot prompting is broken: the rubric fix Chapters: 00:00 — Welcome to Tech Roundup 00:13 — Robots March in Warsaw 00:47 — Digital Brains, Physical Bodies 01:17 — Today's Deep Dive Mission 02:34 — The Great Cost Downgrade 04:10 — Distillation Explained Simply 06:36 — Frontier Models' Big Question 07:50 — Safety Powder Keg Ignites 08:40 — Self-Improvement Spiral Risk 10:02 — Doom Warning or PR Theater 12:08 — Apple's Always-Listening Watch 13:36 — Edge AI on Your Wrist 14:42 — Google Glass Deja Vu 16:28 — Where Smart Money Flows 16:54 — Positron's $875M Chip Bet 18:44 — OpenAI Turns Away Pro Users 19:59 — Sell Pickaxes, Not Gold 20:58 — Death of the Chatbot 22:16 — Mixture-of-Experts Explained 23:50 — Agents That Remember You 25:15 — Copilot Versus Agent Liability 27:14 — AI Employee for Small Business 29:55 — CyberCab's Chaotic Launch 31:47 — Firefighters Versus Driverless Brick 32:05 — Why Waymo Pulls Ahead 34:12 — Figure's $3.5B Brain Build 35:39 — Robot Wins Golden Buzzer 36:01 — World Action Models 37:25 — Vanity Project or Labor Force 39:15 — China Hits IPO Brakes 40:07 — Robots Head to Battlefield 41:11 — Protest Heard Worldwide 42:17 — Roomba's Nesting-Doll Comeback 43:07 — Elder-Care Robot Dilemma 44:46 — Egg-Cooking Robot Absurdity 46:13 — Dancing Robot Goes Viral 47:11 — Account-Review Workflow 48:10 — Fix Your AI Prompts 49:49 — Sanitize Before You Upload 51:16 — Intelligence Leaves the Browser 52:55 — Verdict: Watch Physical AI Subscribe to The AI Verge for your daily dose of what actually matters in AI — minus the hype.