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Humanoid Robots Just Grew Up
Plus, 📺 How to Turn Any YouTube Video Into a Cheat Sheet in Seconds, OpenAI reopens its preparedness leadership role, and more!
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Today we have:
🤖 China cracks fine motor control in humanoid robots
📺 How to Turn Any YouTube Video Into a Cheat Sheet in Seconds
🧠 OpenAI reopens its preparedness leadership role
🔨Tools nad Shifts you cannot miss
🧩 Prompt of the Day
🤖 China cracks fine motor control in humanoid robots
China’s TARS Robotics publicly demonstrated a humanoid robot stitching with both hands at a live event. This task required extreme precision, stability, and coordination. It represents a significant advancement in embodied AI.
The Shift:
1. Two-handed stitching milestone - The robot threaded a needle and stitched a logo using both hands, handling soft materials with sub-millimeter accuracy. This kind of work has long been seen as impossible for automation.
2. Breaking a key robotics barrier - Ultra-fine manipulation has limited automation in wiring, textiles, and delicate assembly. Overcoming this barrier opens up new industrial tasks that skilled human labor used to perform.
3. Embodied intelligence in action - The robot maintained stability and control throughout the task, demonstrating real-world reliability, not just a lab demonstration. This shows progress in vision, force feedback, and coordinated motion.
4. Skills that generalize - The system is designed to learn transferable physical skills instead of just single tasks. This means the same capabilities can be applied to electronics, manufacturing, and handling soft materials.
Meanwhile, the Chinese firm AgiBot launched the Qingtian Rent platform. This platform rents humanoid robots for weddings, business meetings, concerts, and trade shows in 50 cities. It offers over 1,000 robots, structured pricing, and plans to expand to more than 200 cities by 2026, speeding up the adoption of Robots as a Service.
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📺 How to Turn Any YouTube Video Into a Cheat Sheet in Seconds
Long videos hide great insights, but nobody has time to rewatch them. YTscribe turns any YouTube link into a clean, visual cheat sheet instantly.
How it works
Paste a YouTube link: Drop in any podcast, tutorial, interview, or explainer video.
Open AI Studio: Click into AI Studio and choose Generate Cheat Sheet.
Get a visual summary: YTscribe breaks the video into key ideas, steps, frameworks, and highlights you can skim in minutes.
Perfect for marketers, students, founders, or anyone who wants the insight without the runtime.
🧠 OpenAI reopens its preparedness leadership role
OpenAI is hiring a new Head of Preparedness, a senior role overseeing emerging AI risks. CEO Sam Altman said current models are already creating real challenges. He specifically highlighted concerns around mental health and advanced cybersecurity capabilities. The role comes with compensation of $555,000 plus equity.
The Shift:
1. Mental health and real world harm - Altman highlighted the potential impact of AI models on mental health, amid lawsuits alleging ChatGPT reinforced delusions, increased isolation, and contributed to suicide risk.
The role also covers models strong enough to discover critical security vulnerabilities, biological capabilities, and systems that may eventually self improve.
2. Preparedness framework ownership - The Head of Preparedness will execute OpenAI’s framework for tracking frontier capabilities that could cause severe harm. This framework was first introduced in 2023 to study both immediate and catastrophic risks.
The position reopens after the prior preparedness lead was reassigned and other safety leaders exited. OpenAI also noted it may relax safety requirements if competitors release high risk models without similar protections.
As AI rapidly moves into everyday use, safety leadership is becoming an operational role rather than a research project. For businesses and regulators, this means that risk management will increasingly influence how powerful models are released and used.
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🚀Quick Shifts
⚖️ Dominion Energy is suing the Trump administration after a sudden federal pause on offshore wind leases halted five major projects, warning the order is unlawful and threatens Virginia’s soaring energy demand driven by AI data centers.
🎬 Hollywood embraced gen-AI harder than ever in 2025, experimenting with text-to-video tools despite early copyright lawsuits from Disney, Universal, and WBD, and shifting from confrontation to full-blown partnerships with AI studios.
🛡️ China is moving to restrict emotionally persuasive AI chatbots, banning suicide-related content, limiting minors, and requiring human intervention during crisis signals.
📺 More than 20% of videos shown to brand-new YouTube users are now AI slop, with Kapwing finding 63B views, 221M subs, and $117M yearly revenue generated by fully AI-generated low-quality channels.
🧩 Prompt of the Day
How to Analyze Shopping Behavior Patterns Using One Prompt
Turn raw assumptions about when and how people buy into clear insights you can use to time promotions, optimize placement, and reduce drop-offs.
Paste the prompt: Drop this into ChatGPT, then fill the placeholder with your product category and, if possible, your primary sales channel (DTC site, Amazon, retail, subscription).
Prompt to paste
Analyze common shopping behavior patterns for [Insert product category]. Include peak purchase times (time of day and days of week), preferred devices (mobile vs desktop), typical browsing vs buying behavior, and the most common cart abandonment triggers. Also include one recommendation for promotion timing, one for on-site placement, and one for checkout optimization.
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