autonomy
A drone chose its own target in Zaporizhzhia and killed three News
The New York Times reports that a Russian drone that killed three civilians at a Zaporizhzhia gas station on July 6, 2026 selected its final target on its own using an onboard Nvidia Jetson Orin module, in what one analyst calls the first documented case of civilian deaths from a Russian drone with such a system.
Figure's viral ladder climb is a two-hour stair timelapse News
A widely shared clip of Figure's F.03 humanoid was reposted as an autonomous ladder climb; the company's own post describes a timelapse of repeated stair traversal that is helping move its robots closer to full autonomy.
Claude Code Briefly Made Silence Mean Yes, Then Reversed It News
Anthropic shipped a Claude Code default that let its AI agent auto-continue after 60 seconds when a user did not answer a clarifying question, then rolled it back two days later after developers called it a broken trust boundary.
A coding assistant ran a real robot News
An AI coding agent read the research, wrote the control code, watched it fail, and fixed it — seating a graphics card into a motherboard by itself. The honest catch: most of the success is retrying.