American billionaire entrepreneur; Colossal founder and AI/de-extinction advocate
Avi Loeb has been appointed to head a White House scientific advisory council probing unidentified anomalous phenomena (UAP). The team will report to a separate presidential panel and has begun requesting more than 50 videos, images and documents to investigate recent military sightings. Critics question the panel’s methods and Loeb’s unconventional theories.
A wave of AI hardware standards and physics-focused models is driving enterprise adoption, with startups and giants racing to interoperate tools, open standards, and better data for real-world AI deployments. Updates cover new hardware interfaces, robotics training advances, and the shift from cloud-only AI to agents operating in physical environments.