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Week 9: The Robots Are Getting Legs
Boston Dynamics demos autonomous factory robots. Anthropic launches Claude 4.5 with extended thinking. The EU AI Act enforcement begins.
// mar 1, 20261 min read
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Boston Dynamics demos autonomous factory robots
The new Atlas can now navigate unstructured environments and handle fragile objects.
02
Anthropic launches Claude 4.5 with "extended thinking"
The new model reasons through problems step-by-step before responding.
03
EU AI Act enforcement begins in earnest
Three companies fined in the first week.
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Big week. The new Atlas can now navigate unstructured environments and handle fragile objects.
01 — Boston Dynamics demos autonomous factory robots
The new Atlas can now navigate unstructured environments and handle fragile objects.
02 — Anthropic launches Claude 4.5 with "extended thinking"
The new model reasons through problems step-by-step before responding.
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