Micron Technology says humanoid robots will become a major source of memory demand, which means prices are unlikely to fall even if the AI boom cools down. The Idaho-based chipmaker, one of the world’s three largest memory makers alongside Samsung and SK hynix, reported its fiscal fourth-quarter results on September 29, 2026. Revenue reached $54.2 billion, up 379 percent from a year earlier. Full-year fiscal 2026 revenue hit $133.2 billion, with net income of $85 billion. Micron says each humanoid robot will need about 200 gigabytes of DRAM and several terabytes of NAND flash storage. CEO Sanjay Mehrotra said physical AI, starting with self-driving cars and later humanoid robots, could become a major driver of memory demand before this decade ends. Alibaba launches RynnBrain, an open-source AI model for robotics Japan Airlines tests humanoid robots as baggage handlers Morgan Stanley estimates humanoid robot shipments in 2030 will range from 250,000 to 1.2...
OpenAI will start adding hidden watermarks to text and code made in the European Union. This move is meant to follow the EU’s new AI transparency rules. The new OpenAI tool is called textGrain . It puts a secret statistical signal into the model’s word choices. A detector can then check for that signal. OpenAI says it tested better than other methods, such as Google’s SynthID for text. But the company warns it may not always work in real life. Tests show some problems. Short text is hard to detect. Passages of about 200 tokens were caught around 80 percent of the time. However, longer passages of 400 tokens were caught about 95 percent of the time. Math content was much harder to detect. Editing also lowers the rate. Swapping 10 percent of words with synonyms cut detection from about 92 percent to 66 percent. Swapping 25 percent brought it down to 17 percent. The textGrain OpenAI detector will not be open to everyone at first. Only approved researchers an...