Gemini Robotics 2 ships whole-body intelligence to robots, moving control beyond arms and grippers to full-body coordination. Zoox hit its own milestone, charging real fares for rides in its steering-wheel-free robotaxi for the first time. Underneath both sits smaller, denser hardware: NVIDIA Jetson is pitching compact modules for running AI models directly on robots and edge devices, no cloud round-trip required.

The security side of AI had a rough week. Researchers demonstrated document-borne worms that self-propagate through Copilot for Word, and MIT Technology Review detailed a fundamental flaw leaving LLMs broadly vulnerable to prompt-based attacks. GitHub disclosed work disrupting supply chain attacks hitting npm and GitHub Actions, while Amazon traced four poisoned npm packages to a North Korean crew. Amazon also admitted internal teams burned $1.8 million running Claude on a task budgeted at a fraction of that, 860% over, in a cautionary tale about letting agents loose on menial coding work unsupervised.

Elsewhere: physicists say new data reopens old muon measurement mysteries, a rocket upper stage is now on track to hit the Moon on August 5, 2026, and the race to commercialize solid-state batteries keeps drawing entrants despite nobody quite cracking manufacturing at scale. Ars Technica reports quantum computers have produced results now verifiable against classical simulation, a real trust milestone rather than a marketing one. And a firm using AI to mine 80 million pages of Spanish colonial shipping records is hiring an actual salvage diver, up to $500,000 a year, to go recover what its models find.