Blue skies and Bedrock

Bedrock Robotics is fitting excavators with sensors and computing that let an AI run the machine on commercial job sites, with a remote human operator available when it gets stuck (Joe).
The excavator story is read as part marketing pitch, but still the clearest example yet of robots doing messy physical labor, and the industry promise that operators will simply move up to supervising fleets is treated as short sighted (Joe).
A Google and Cathay Pacific partnership uses AI aided prediction to steer planes away from the air where contrails persist, with a 2025 trial reported to cut their warming effect by 40 percent (Joe).
An AI assisted drug, rentosertib, showed early promise in lung fibrosis patients, though the framing that it slows aging is likely overstated even as investment in AI drug discovery grows (Joe).
A New York Times investigation finds that a blacklisted Chinese state firm kept exporting restricted Nvidia chips through a subsidiary, while Malaysia chose Huawei infrastructure over American options because of the Cloud Act (Robert).