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◆The head of a frontier lab has asked the industry to slow down, and a rival's chief scientist agrees.◆Inside OpenAI, agents already work three days for every human day.◆The world's open-model hub now belongs to the world's chipmaker.◆Texas has 470 GW of data-centre power requests and under 4 GW actually drawing power.◆One attacker, hundreds of AI agents, 395 organisations breached in days.◆Payment networks are writing KYC for machines.◆Seven hyperscalers have promised households will not pay for AI's electricity.◆The first four-digit humanoid factory contract starts with boxes, not assembly.◆The head of a frontier lab has asked the industry to slow down, and a rival's chief scientist agrees.◆Inside OpenAI, agents already work three days for every human day.◆The world's open-model hub now belongs to the world's chipmaker.◆Texas has 470 GW of data-centre power requests and under 4 GW actually drawing power.◆One attacker, hundreds of AI agents, 395 organisations breached in days.◆Payment networks are writing KYC for machines.◆Seven hyperscalers have promised households will not pay for AI's electricity.◆The first four-digit humanoid factory contract starts with boxes, not assembly.

◆ Signal · Rising · Artificial Intelligence · 13 September 2026

The first four-digit humanoid factory contract starts with boxes, not assembly.

Humanoid's binding agreement with Schaeffler covers an estimated 1,000 to 2,000 wheeled robots by 2032 under robot-as-a-service pricing; phase one, from December 2026, is box handling at two German plants.

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