Disney just unveiled a robot that walks and performs with almost human nuance—and it’s not even the most shocking AI story this week. We break down how Imagineering quietly became a robotics powerhouse, why Olaf’s RL-powered movements mark a turning point, and the surprising research claiming modern models behave like an emerging AI species.

Plus: the NanoBanana world-model that predicts locations from raw coordinates, the debate over whether LLMs truly “understand,” the hidden intelligence space of machines, and what household-robot datasets reveal about the next decade of automation.

It’s robots, cognition, science fiction energy—and a glimpse at the strange new intelligence we’re building.