A $100 AI drone and the risks of cheap autonomy

AI robots are taking over CES 2025 and we're not sure how to feel about it. Boston Dynamics Atlas is doing things with its body that no robot should be able to do.

NVIDIA's new autonomous vehicle platform Alpa Mayo is coming for Tesla FSD. And you can now buy a $100 AI-powered drone that will hunt down whatever you point it at. Cool cool cool.

Plus, Google finally put Gemini in Gmail (we tested it so you don't have to), OpenAI is building a mysterious Johnny Ive audio device, and Claude Code with Opus 4.5 has coders losing their minds over something called Ralph Wiggum. Yes, that Ralph Wiggum.

We've also got ChatGPT Health, LG's towel-folding robot Clo, Unitree's intimidating 6-foot humanoid, and a look at what the future of AI agents might actually look like. Spoiler: it involves a lot of orchestration.

THE ROBOTS ARE FLEXIBLE AND WE DON'T LIKE IT.

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Jensen Huang's NVIDIA CES Presentation:

https://youtu.be/uDNXjnOqJ-A?si=_h_0Fmiq788YaGZX

New 'Alpamayo' Self Driving Car & Software

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c0jv1vd571wo

Hands-on Test Of the Car

https://youtu.be/EzAVW1VgzcI?si=B9JCJmSQW6ywXV1x

Boston Dynamics New Robot Atlas

https://x.com/SawyerMerritt/status/2008293610308202508?s=20

Real Atlas footage from CES https://x.com/IntuitMachine/status/2008324310230851697?s=20 Google DeepMind + Boston Dynamics https://bostondynamics.com/blog/boston-dynamics-google-deepmind-form-new-ai-partnership/?utm_source=x&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=&utm_content= LG's Cloid 'AI-enabled' Robot Does Laundry *Really* Slowly

https://x.com/AP/status/2008746664841146722?s=20 $100 drone with an AI powered vision system…

https://x.com/chesterzelaya/status/2008058706500759576?s=20

New Unitree Robot Jumpkicks

https://x.com/UnitreeRobotics/status/2007746313220415717?s=20

Guy Gets Kicked In The Nuts By Unitree Robot

https://x.com/TheCartelDel/status/2004977640521044335?s=20 Men's Health Device For… You Know https://www.tiktok.com/@verge/video/7592000373989133581 GMAIL is in its GEMINI ERA

https://t.co/oq3jYKyvF1

OpenAI's New 'Code Audio': Improving the audio models for the upcoming Jony Ive gadget

https://www.theinformation.com/articles/openai-ramps-audio-ai-efforts-ahead-device?rc=c3oojq&shared=1b7fd8b8ee0b0038

ChatGPT's Move Towards Personal Assistant

https://fidjisimo.substack.com/p/closing-the-capability-gap

ChatGPT For Health

https://x.com/OpenAI/status/2008987566796640575?s=20 Opus 4.5 + Claude Code's Big Moment (maybe we just kind of chat about this)

https://www.axios.com/2026/01/07/anthropics-claude-code-vibe-coding Ralph Wiggum + Claude Code

https://venturebeat.com/technology/how-ralph-wiggum-went-from-the-simpsons-to-the-biggest-name-in-ai-right-now

GAS TOWN

https://steve-yegge.medium.com/welcome-to-gas-town-4f25ee16dd04

FoFR Shares His JSON Prompting Techniques

https://www.fofr.ai/prompting-with-json

Gavin's Examples (What I Did With AI)

https://x.com/gavinpurcell/status/2003148296844652662?s=20

https://x.com/gavinpurcell/status/2007194034171982122?s=20

Star Wars: Beggar's Canyon Is The World's Best AI Fan Film

https://youtu.be/SGJC4Hnz3m0?si=EWZktHOnf6_cYcMh

Related: PJ's Live Action Legend of Zelda Movie Trailer

https://x.com/PJaccetturo/status/2008559114704875888?s=20

Show Fan Eric Curts Creates Cool Way To Make Graphic Novels in Notebook LM

https://x.com/ericcurts/status/2007939089635369351?s=20

https://www.controlaltachieve.com/2026/01/graphicnovels.html

Somebod-AI that AI used to know?

https://x.com/BrianRoemmele/status/2007838494513906051?s=20

Egg Protein

https://x.com/Solopopsss/status/2008961579728130159?s=20