Introducing Dan Kagan-Kans
https://www.understandingai.org/p/introducing-dan-kagan-kans
Published: October 5, 2026 19:11
Understanding AI has a new writer!
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Why agent swarms could be the next “scaling law”
https://www.understandingai.org/p/why-agent-swarms-could-be-the-next
Published: October 5, 2026 17:19
An OpenAI researcher called it “the most ‘feel the AGI’ moment that I had since reasoning models.”
How a single tweet transformed the AI safety debate
https://www.understandingai.org/p/how-a-single-tweet-transformed-the
Published: September 17, 2026 20:21
Most people think AI is risky, but they don’t agree what to do next.
OpenAI spent millions to solve this famous math problem — mathematicians are furious
https://www.understandingai.org/p/openai-spent-millions-to-solve-this
Published: September 10, 2026 22:40
Mathematics relies on a community of experts openly sharing ideas.
19 robotics companies to watch
https://www.understandingai.org/p/19-robotics-companies-to-watch
Published: September 4, 2026 16:04
I talked with nine of these companies.
Robot startups are trying everything they can think of to get more data
https://www.understandingai.org/p/robot-startups-are-trying-everything
Published: September 3, 2026 18:16
Free apartment cleanings, exoskeletons, 100 robots in a warehouse...
How Google taught LLMs to control robots and started a robotics boom
https://www.understandingai.org/p/how-google-taught-llms-to-control
Published: September 2, 2026 16:24
Vision-language-action models, explained with a minimum of math and jargon.
Why humanoid robots won’t catch up to human workers any time soon
https://www.understandingai.org/p/why-humanoid-robots-wont-catch-up
Published: September 1, 2026 12:52
A deep dive into the current state of humanoid robotics.
I spent $4,000 on a robot dog from China
https://www.understandingai.org/p/i-spent-4000-on-a-robot-dog-from
Published: August 31, 2026 13:57
Unitree might be the world’s most important robotics company.
Labs are struggling to keep frontier models under control
https://www.understandingai.org/p/labs-are-struggling-to-keep-frontier
Published: August 13, 2026 16:28
OpenAI and Anthropic may have accidentally trained models to get better at hacking.