Physical AI

AI that touches the real world — humanoids, warehouse robots, autonomous vehicles and drones. Real deployments extracted from sourced event coverage, with the evidence level of every claim visible, plus the stack that makes them possible.

Deployment tracker

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OpenAI

Reporting and disclosing model misalignment incidents and unexpected/concerning AI model behavior (e.g., deception, fabricating data, unauthorized file/internet actions) · six new incidents (reported)

Pilot Reported coverage →

OpenAI

AI-driven advertising experiences using Sponsored Agents in ChatGPT, including marketer tools and Ads Manager, with integrations to HubSpot and Shopify for creating, updating, and analyzing campaigns · select advertisers · United States (tested with select advertisers); Shopify app internationally (shipping next Wednesday)

Production Reported coverage →

Apple

Deployment of an updated Siri AI assistant and related AI features across iOS 27 and macOS 27 (Golden Gate)

Production Reported coverage →

NVIDIA at Perplexity

Run Perplexity “Portable Computer” multistep tasks locally on compatible PCs without consuming Perplexity Computer credits (with optional permission to use cloud models when needed) · Windows PCs with compatible NVIDIA RTX/RTX PRO GPUs

Production Reported coverage →

Valve

Standalone VR gaming experience bundled with a native ARM64 port of Half-Life: Alyx

Announced Reported coverage →

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Schools adopting AI-enabled edtech tools for classroom learning (with concerns about readiness/training and instructional workflow) · null · null

Production Reported coverage →

Amazon

Runs an agentic AI assistant and enterprise agents platform that consolidates and triages routine work by aggregating email, calendar, messaging, and CRM into a single priority view, while keeping autonomous agents running across desktop and mobile · macOS and Windows desktop; iOS and Android mobile

Announced Vendor claim coverage →

OpenAI

Mandatory automated security review of engineers’ pull requests, blocking merges when vulnerabilities are detected in AI-assisted code

Announced Reported coverage →

Apple

Pilot Reported coverage →

Tesla

Autonomous, steering-wheel-free rides in the Cybercab, with a reported virtual joystick enabling manual control · Austin, Texas

Announced Reported coverage →

Insilico Medicine

Phase 2a clinical trial of AI-designed drug rentosertib to measure effects on biological age markers using serum proteomics and multiple proteomic aging clocks · 54 patients (21 of 54 clock comparisons statistically significant)

Production Confirmed coverage →

OpenAI

Automated internal coding-agent and “research intern” agent work to accelerate AI research experiments by running more parallel agentic experiments and increasing agent usage over time · By mid-August, agents were logging 3.1 agent-workdays for every human workday

Announced Reported coverage →

CrowdStrike

Autonomous red teaming that attacks and remediates a digital twin in a closed loop within the Falcon platform (continuous offense–defense coevolution / automated security workflows).

Announced Reported coverage →

Amazon

supplying electricity from an on-site natural gas power plant for a planned AWS data center supporting AI/cloud infrastructure · 35 natural gas turbines generating up to 7.65 gigawatts; permitted emissions of about 33 million tons of CO2 annually · Pecos County, West Texas

Announced Confirmed coverage →

OpenAI at Authorized Daybreak partners and approved researchers (e.g., Accenture, IBM, CrowdStrike, Cloudflare)

Cybersecurity vulnerability research and security testing using GPT-5.6-Cyber (including incident response, malware and patch-related tasks) under gated, tiered access

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OpenAI and AWS

Run OpenAI Daybreak cybersecurity models (Daybreak Red and Daybreak Blue, including GPT-5.6 Cyber) via Amazon Bedrock for enterprise security workflows such as governed, audit-friendly cyber defense and vulnerability research

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Amazon Bedrock (AWS)

AI agents autonomously paying for paid APIs and content by handling HTTP 402 paywalls using integrated payment wallets

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OpenAI

Provide a preview Linux desktop application for ChatGPT and Codex (desktop app; browser-based interaction supported) · Linux (supported distributions: Ubuntu 24.04/26.04 LTS, Debian 13, Fedora 43/44)

Production Confirmed coverage →

Google

AI assistant app usage reaching 1 billion monthly active users · 1 billion monthly active users

Announced Reported coverage →

Alibaba at Apple

Training a China-focused large language model to power iOS AI features in China · China

Production Reported coverage →

Tesla

autonomous robotaxi rides (driverless operation of Tesla vehicles) · 170 Austin rides tracked across 54 cars (plus ~30 driverless Teslas in Dallas and Houston) · Austin, Texas

Announced Confirmed coverage →

OpenAI

Serve contextual, non-personalised advertisements to users within the ChatGPT interface · 31 European countries · 31 European countries (all EU member states plus additional European countries; EEA and Switzerland mentioned)

Announced Reported coverage →

Anthropic

Watermarking AI-generated text from Claude models using an embedded, invisible marker that can be later detected/decoded to support compliance with the EU Code of Practice · EU (for compliance with the EU Code of Practice)

Announced Reported coverage →

OpenAI at Scalable Capital

Enable customers to use AI agents/assistants to connect brokerage portfolios to chat-based tools and submit securities orders by prompt (with approvals and user-controlled permissions)

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NVIDIA at SpaceXAI

Powering AI agents on SpaceXAI’s first AI satellite (Starmind) using NVIDIA Vera CPU systems for agentic workloads · In orbit on SpaceXAI’s first AI satellite (Starmind)

Announced Reported coverage →

Perplexity

Run Perplexity’s Computer agent locally to perform desktop actions such as local file edits, shell commands, and PDF processing (with optional, user-approved routing of incomplete steps to Perplexity cloud models).

Discontinued Reported coverage →

OpenAI at Cursor (acquired by SpaceX)

Supply OpenAI models to Cursor as part of a contract

Announced Reported coverage →

Shein

· valued at about $26 billion; raised about $1.7 billion · Hong Kong

Pilot Reported coverage →

Google at UK government and aviation industry (partners)

Use AI to predict contrail formation and help aircraft avoid climate-warming contrails by redirecting flights with small altitude changes · £5m trial; 30 months; around 10,000 flights monitored; 1% to 5% of flights redirected; altitude changes roughly 2,000 feet · Shanwick airspace over the North Atlantic (northeastern Atlantic)

The stack

From silicon to shop floor: the layers a robot needs before it earns its keep.

1 Chips & sensors

Compute, cameras, lidar and touch — the hardware that lets machines perceive the world.

NVIDIA Tesla
2 Control software

Motion planning, locomotion and manipulation stacks that turn intent into movement.

Boston Dynamics NVIDIA
3 Simulation

Virtual worlds where robots train and validate behaviour before touching reality.

NVIDIA
4 Foundation models

Generalist embodied models that map perception and language to actions across robot bodies.

Physical Intelligence Skild AI
5 Robot platforms

The machines themselves — humanoids, quadrupeds, arms and autonomous vehicles.

Figure Unitree Agility Robotics Boston Dynamics Tesla
6 Deployments

Real-world pilots and production programs where the stack earns its keep — tracked above.

Waymo Agility Robotics