🍭 Robots Get Real Intelligence 🤖

Good morning. The intern is gone, robots are getting brains, and Google is having a very expensive identity crisis.

Let’s dive in 👇

🍭 What’s Cookin’:

• Google admits AI could eat its core business

• Alibaba open-sources a “brain” for robots

• AI companies drop millions on Super Bowl ads

• The U.S. military scales generative AI fast

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Google
💥 Alphabet Quietly Confesses AI Could Break Its Business

The Bite:
Alphabet just tapped the debt markets.
It also quietly warned investors that AI could mess with their profits.

In its risk disclosures, Alphabet flagged that the use of generative AI may change user behavior, reducing traditional search queries.

That would weaken the ad machine that pays for everything.

This wasn’t hype.

It was a legal admission that the core Google loop might be eating itself.

Snacks:

• Alphabet issued new debt and updated its risk disclosures for investors

• It explicitly warned AI could change how users search the web

• Fewer traditional searches = fewer ads = less predictable revenue

• AI answers reduce clicks to external sites, which are Google’s old fuel source

• These risks were framed as material, not theoretical

Why it Bites:
Google is in a weird spot: it’s racing to push AI answers everywhere, while admitting those same answers could kill the behavior that made Google rich.

Search works because users ask questions, click links, and advertisers pay to be in the middle. AI works by skipping the middle.

That’s not an AI doomer take.

That’s Google, talking to people who expect to get paid back.

So yes, every big tech company is wrestling with this tension.
But Google’s scenario is unique.

Because while the generative AI use is disrupting the web.

Google is kinda disrupting itself.

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Global Arms Race
🧠 China’s Alibaba Is Betting on Robots With Brains

The Bite:
China’s Alibaba Group just threw down an open-source AI model designed for physical robots.

The new model, RynnBrain, is built to help machines see, map, and interact with the real world. From navigating cluttered spaces to planning multi-step tasks.

This is about robots that can actually work, powered by AI that understands space and time like a brain.

And unlike much of the West’s proprietary AI work, Alibaba is giving this one away free on GitHub and Hugging Face.

Snacks:

• RynnBrain is an embodied AI model trained to help robots interact with physical environments.

• It can map objects, predict movements, and plan tasks step-by-step.

• The model is open-sourced and available in multiple versions online.

• Alibaba claims RynnBrain’s benchmarks rival U.S. efforts like Google’s and Nvidia’s robotics AI.

• Stock markets have already sniffed the change as Alibaba shares moved on the news.

Why it Bites:
This matters because the AI race is splitting again.

In the West, major players have focused on consumer chatbots and digital assistants. Summarized in fancy text and image generation that lives inside devices.

China’s Alibaba is pivoting toward physical AI: systems that inhabit the real world via robots and automation.

And Alibaba open-sourcing it is a hell of a strategic shot across Silicon Valley’s bow.

By doing this, Alibaba isn’t just competing in the robotics arms race, but trying to set the standard while giving developers a reason to build on China-led tech.

This could accelerate AI adoption in logistics and manufacturing. Areas where China’s industry footprint is already massive.

Alibaba’s move sends a signal:

The next big chapter in AI might be written by robot hands on factory floors.

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🧠 You Need to Know

💳 Alphabet flags new AI risks while tapping debt markets
→ Alphabet is borrowing more to fund AI build-outs while cautioning that heavy spending and uncertain returns could pressure future performance.

🤖 Alibaba unveils “RynnBrain” AI model aimed at robotics
→ Alibaba’s new model targets real-world robotics, aiming to help machines better understand environments and execute tasks.

🏈 AI companies pour millions into Super Bowl ads
→ Major AI firms are spending big on Super Bowl spots to win consumer attention and brand dominance.

🪖 GenAI.mil expands through partnership with OpenAI
→ The U.S. military’s AI platform is scaling quickly, bringing generative AI tools to a massive user base.

🩺 Using AI for medical advice 'dangerous', study finds
→ An Oxford-led study found AI chatbots can give inaccurate or inconsistent health guidance, risking wrong diagnoses or missed urgent care.