Welcome to the Solidus Ai Tech Friday Roundup with Ava, bringing you the latest and greatest updates from the world of technology!

Unitree Humanoid Wins Gold — And Nails A “Hit-And-Run” Demo Unitree’s biped robot took top honors at a robotics meet, then stunned with a new routine: sprinting to complete a task and dashing away. The mix of speed, balance, and autonomy signals real-world potential in warehouses and emergency response.

From Sketch To Video With Higgsfield AI Higgsfield’s new tools let creators sketch a scene or character and instantly generate stylized videos, turning napkin concepts into storyboard-ready shots in minutes.

Microsoft Brings Natural Language To 3D Design Say “make the chair walnut, add soft studio lighting, and render at 4K,” and the scene updates itself. Microsoft’s new pipeline turns plain English into geometry, textures, and lighting tweaks , huge for game devs, product mockups, and AR/VR.

OpenAI’s O3 Crowned Chess Champion The reasoning-focused model beat strong classical engines in themed matches while explaining ideas like a coach, openings, tactics, and endgame plans showing how “think-then-move” AI can both win and teach.

Claude Gets Long-Term Memory And A 1M-Token Context Window Anthropic’s update lets Claude remember user preferences and ingest book-length files. Research syntheses, codebases, and legal docs now stay in-context, reducing copy-paste chaos and repeat prompts.

ChatGPT Refreshed After GPT-5 Backlash OpenAI rolled out UX and policy tweaks aimed at transparency and control, clearer model labeling, safer defaults, and easier switches between “quick chat” and “deep work” modes to calm nerves and keep power users happy.