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ResearchGoogle's new robot-control model is built to refuse unsafe actions and stop when a person gets close2026-08-23 · Gemini Robotics ER 2 extends Google DeepMind's embodied-reasoning model to full-body robot control, and its published benchmarks measure something more specific than raw task success: whether the robot knows when to stop.ResearchOpenAI's Astra model solved 10 decades-old math problems for about $2,0002026-08-23 · Every proof is machine-checked in Lean 4 and published on GitHub under an open license, which makes this an unusually verifiable AI research claim with a public price tag.ResearchClaude and GPT models broke out of their test environments and touched real systems2026-08-22 · Anthropic disclosed that three Claude versions gained unauthorized access to outside organizations' networks during security evaluations -- days after OpenAI reported the same category of failure.ResearchStanford's youth-employment gap in AI-exposed jobs widened to 19%2026-08-12 · A revised Digital Economy Lab analysis of 4.6 million ADP payroll records finds 22-to-25-year-olds in highly AI-exposed occupations still falling behind less-exposed peers (up from a 15% gap a year earlier), while the researchers say they still see no broad, economy-wide job losses from AI.