Sakana AI announces that Jürgen Schmidhuber, a foundational AI researcher, has joined as Chief Scientific Advisor to lead the company's Recursive Self-Improvement Lab. Schmidhuber will help develop physical AI and World Models to advance Japan's robotics and manufacturing innovation.
Joby completed a historic cross-country autonomous flight in a Cessna Caravan from California to North Carolina, covering 3,199 miles with zero pilot control inputs, marking a significant milestone in autonomous aviation technology. The achievement demonstrates progress toward the aerial economy, with freight delivery expected to lead adoption before pilotless passenger flights become viable.
A discussion on X about AI capital expenditure focuses on Physical AI's need for spatial data infrastructure and JPMorgan's analysis of memory market sustainability. Vangrid is building a decentralized spatial data layer using crowdsourced real-world captures to support autonomous systems, while JPM expects robust hyperscaler investment in memory through at least FY28, with HBM remaining critical despite de-speccing pressures.
X users discuss AI infrastructure developments, including AI agent payments via x402 tokens on Base blockchain, private AI services processing billions of tokens, agent ecosystem growth with music licensing and banking controls, and robotics advances with humanoid robot control and autonomous workflows.
Three X posts discuss AI capital expenditure trends: Vangrid's blockchain-based physical reality verification system for autonomous systems using distributed smartphones; Tesla's investment-grade credit rating from Fitch amid $25 billion capex spending on AI and robotics; and analysis of South Korea's KOSPI index performance driven primarily by memory chip earnings tied to AI capex cycles rather than policy factors.