AI and technology news summaries from iEnvi, framed for environmental professionals.
🤖 “Don’t mistake this for another humanoid robot.”
That is how Gerry Vannuffelen, CEO of Mantis Robotics, introduced the new MR-X dual-arm industrial robot at the Automate 2025 conference.
🤖 “These distillation attacks are carried out illicitly, systematically, and at industrial scale to harvest US AI capabilities across frontier labs and repackage them as their own.”
This is the stark warning from Anthropic in a formal complaint to the US Senate.
📊 “This new tracker helps replace speculation with evidence, giving us a clearer understanding of what is changing and how to best support affected workers.” – Till von Wachter, Faculty Director of the California Policy Lab at UCLA.
🤖 “Why context management has become a primary bottleneck, more than GPU availability or compute efficiency, is the question of 2026.”
Jeff Harthorn of Solidigm recently highlighted this shift.
🤖 “Our 11-month deployment proved that humanoids are no longer lab experiments, they can be a valuable asset in establishing a flexible, reliable manufacturing workforce.”
That is the assessment of Brett Adcock, founder of Figure AI, following the successful pilot of their humanoid robot at BMW Gro
🤖 “Companies don’t buy tech; they buy solutions. At Agility, we’re doing just that.
🤖 “Jalapeño is part of our long-term full-stack infrastructure strategy to make compute more abundant, resulting in AI which is faster, more reliable, and more affordable.”
These are the words of Greg Brockman, President of OpenAI, following the unveiling of their first custom-built silicon.
🤖 Sixty-five per cent of a leading AI company’s product code is now written by their own autonomous digital teammate. Anthropic has launched Claude Tag, completely replacing its traditional Slack application.
🤖 “Physical AI is transforming how factories, warehouses and logistics operations work, and robotics teams need a unified safety architecture to scale autonomous systems.” – Deepu Talla, NVIDIA. Deploying advanced robotics in shared human environments has long faced a major bottleneck.
🤖 “As frontier systems become more capable, every AI lab will make consequential decisions about deployment, safeguards, acceptable uses, and risk tolerance.”
Those remarks from OpenAI Chief Global Affairs Officer Chris Lehane point to a meaningful shift in how AI safety is being approached.