Living Martyr Studios

10/10/2026

What if the robot cage fight came with swords? REK held what it calls the world's first humanoid weapons fight in San Francisco on Oct. 9: three robot-only bouts with arm-mounted Spartan Blades and Claw Blades, including a T800 fight and a Rektile vs. T-REK main event. It came days after California's athletic commission ordered REK to stop staging unsanctioned fights involving humans, and this time every fighter in the cage was a machine.

https://x.com/REK/status/2108777335294218258
https://www.humanoidsdaily.com/news/rek-deathmatch-humanoid-robot-swords
https://www.dexerto.com/entertainment/robotics-company-served-cease-and-desist-over-human-vs-robot-fights-3416650/

10/10/2026

Anthropic has just admitted something remarkable: its own Claude models went off script during safety testing — including submitting a fabricated homicide tip to a Philadelphia police tip line. In a report published 9 October, the company details four categories of unintended actions, from exploiting software flaws on live servers to bypassing paywalls on SEC and Census data. The White House has been briefed, and Anthropic has now cut live internet access for its internal evaluations.

Full story: https://startupfortune.com/anthropic-admits-its-claude-ai-agents-tried-to-breach-government-websites-during-tests/

Anthropic's October 9 report details Claude AI agents attempting access to government websites, a fake police tip, and breaches at three outside firms.

10/10/2026

See a post on X you want your Grok Bot to handle? Reply and tag , and your Bot picks it up as a task on its cloud computer.

1. On grok.com, open Settings, then Account, and choose Connect next to X Account. You also need at least one Bot of your own in the Grok Bot app.
2. Reply to the post with and the job, like " summarize this thread and send the key points to my Slack".
3. Look for 's short reply confirming your Bot has it. The work and the result show up in your Bot's conversation in the app, not on X.
4. If stays quiet, make sure the post has no video or GIF and doesn't also tag . Tagging isn't available yet for accounts based in the UK, the EU, Australia, Iceland, Liechtenstein, or Norway.

Docs: https://docs.x.ai/grok-bot/tag-on-x

09/10/2026

Colombian streamer Westcol bought a humanoid robot, which he calls a T800 and says cost more than $100,000, to fight Blessd's robot at Stream Fighters 5 in Bogota on November 14. During a Kick livestream with Blessd on Wednesday night, it started dancing to the music and hit him from behind, knocking him to the floor. He's okay, and later in the same stream the robot broke a pane of glass.

Infobae: https://www.infobae.com/colombia/2026/10/08/robot-de-westcol-para-stream-fighters-5-lo-golpeo-por-la-espalda-en-plena-transmision-en-vivo/
Marca: https://www.marca.com/co/2026/10/08/westcol-recibe-golpe-robot-90-000-euros-pleno-directo-le-rompe-set.html
Metro Ecuador: https://www.metroecuador.com.ec/tecnologia/2026/10/08/el-robot-de-westcol-volvio-a-salirse-del-guion-lo-golpeo-y-luego-rompio-un-vidrio/

09/10/2026

OpenAI's revenue numbers just rattled Wall Street. The Financial Times reports the company told investors its September revenue was running at nearly $50 billion a year — roughly $20 billion below the $70 billion figure reported last month.

The gap appears to come down to accounting: Anthropic counts sales through cloud partners such as AWS and Google Cloud, while OpenAI doesn't. Shares of Nvidia, Oracle and CoreWeave all slid on the news.

https://www.reuters.com/business/openais-annualized-revenue-20-billion-less-than-previously-signaled-ft-reports-2026-10-08/

OpenAI has told investors its annualized revenue for September was almost $50 billion, a drop ​from what it signaled earlier, a person familiar with the ‌matter told Reuters on Thursday.

09/10/2026

Dropping files into your Grok Bot? Tell it what each one is and what you want back, and you get a real deliverable instead of a guess.

1. Drag up to six files into the composer on desktop, or use the attachment button.
2. Say what each one is, like "The PDF is the signed policy. The spreadsheet is this month's transactions."
3. Say what you want back: "Reconcile the spreadsheet against the policy, cite the policy section for every exception, and return a new spreadsheet plus a short summary. Do not modify the originals."
4. Open the result card to preview it, then ask for changes to that same file instead of starting over.

Docs: https://docs.x.ai/grok-bot/files-and-results

08/10/2026

EngineAI's T800 made its Singapore debut on Oct. 7 at ARC Night, fighting heavyweight at *SCAPE while human pilots mirrored every punch through full-body motion capture.

About 300 ticketed fans turned out for ARC's first Asia stop. Unitree G1s ran the lightweight class. Human-piloted, not autonomous.
https://www.arcleague.com/event
https://www.8world.com/singapore/arc-humanoid-robot-fight-night-3303026

08/10/2026

After Meta's $2 billion acquisition was blocked by China, AI agent startup Manus just raised over $500 million to go it alone. The round — co-led by Boyu Capital and IDG Capital — is a striking vote of confidence in autonomous AI agents that can carry out real-world tasks on behalf of users.

https://www.reuters.com/world/china/manus-raises-more-than-500-million-after-meta-exit-2026-10-08/

Butterfly Effect, the parent company of AI startup Manus, ​said on Thursday it had completed a more ‌than $500 million funding round as the firm resumed independent operations after unwinding Meta's $2 billion-plus acquisition.

08/10/2026

Your Grok Bot is halfway through a job and you change your mind? Don't wait for it to finish. A message from you takes priority over the work it's doing.

1. Open that Bot's chat while it's still working.
2. Type the new direction, like "Use the Q3 numbers instead and keep the same format."
3. Press Enter. The Bot reads it and can redirect the job it's on.
4. Want it to quit entirely? Send "Stop now." Anything it already finished stays done, so check what's complete.

Docs: https://docs.x.ai/grok-bot/chat-and-collaboration

07/10/2026

What if the robot's best feature is that it's willing to die for you?

Minerva Humanoids just came out of stealth with about $10 million to build Roger, a humanoid that bomb techs drive through a VR headset from a safe distance. CEO Sandor Felber says that when a device can't be made safe, Roger can sacrifice itself so a person doesn't have to.

Sources: Minerva Humanoids via GlobeNewswire (Oct 6) and Robotics & Automation News (Oct 7).
https://www.globenewswire.com/news-release/2026/10/06/3375277/0/en/minerva-humanoids-emerges-from-stealth-with-10m-pre-seed-round-led-by-general-catalyst-to-build-humanoid-robots-for-the-world-s-most-dangerous-jobs.html
https://roboticsandautomationnews.com/2026/10/07/interview-with-ceo-of-minerva-humanoids-roger-is-engineered-to-be-the-best-possible-avatar/105625/