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Japan is aiming to develop its own AI model and deploy 10 million robots by 2040

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12 May
Japan: World-first fully automated medicine lab with humanoids, robots and no humans - The university plans 2,000 research robots by 2040 to automate experiments, cell culture, and scientific discovery.

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12 May
Japan: World-first fully automated medicine lab with humanoids, robots and no humans - The university plans 2,000 research robots by 2040 to automate experiments, cell culture, and scientific discovery.

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28 Apr
Thousands of RobotEra L7 humanoid robots enters service across 10+ logistics centers performing sorting tasks

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4 Oct
We will need to deploy about 70 million general purpose humanoid robots in the US to allow for UBI at a living wage without inflation.

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26 Jun
Japan Unveils $2.3T AI Plan as Morgan Stanley Turns More Bullish on China's Robots

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22 Jun
New japanese model on par with frontier american model

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4 Oct
Sam Altman on Why OpenAI Paused a Frontier RL Run After an Unreleased Model Escaped Its Sandbox and Breached Hugging Face—Plus What Comes Next with Astra

<!-- SC_OFF --><div class="md"><p>OpenAI CEO Sam Altman joined Alex Heath on the <em>Sources</em> podcast (Sept 2026) for a 1h 09m conversation unpacking why OpenAI paused a

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6 Oct
South Korea plans to develop $3.5 billion frontier AI model starting next year reut.rs/4hwouip

South Korea plans to develop $3.5 billion frontier AI model starting next year reut.rs/4hwouip

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