Fed's Musalem said central bank officials should not make commitments but should explain to the public how and why policy decisions are made.

IDC's global humanoid robot tracker shows shipments approached 25,000 units in 1H 2026, a 432.1% YoY rise, indicating a shift from technical validation to commercial deployment. Use cases are expanding into industrial manufacturing, retail, transport and logistics, leisure and tourism, and consumer home use, while competition is shifting from hardware performance to comprehensive embodied intelligence capabilities. IDC forecasts shipments will exceed 750,000 units by 2030, signaling acceleration into large-scale adoption.

Reuters reports Anthropic disclosed in a confidential IPO filing that it has signed an agreement with SpaceX to pay up to $84.5 bln by 2029 for SpaceX’s NVIDIA-based AI compute resources. Most of the agreement can be terminated with 90 days’ notice. The disclosed cap is substantially higher than amounts in SpaceX’s earlier IPO filing: in May SpaceX said Anthropic agreed to pay $1.25 bln per month under a contract of up to about three years, totaling roughly $45 bln, and containing a 90-day cancellation clause.