Predator is a steel humanoid that got knocked to the floor repeatedly this week & stood back up unassisted every time. Fall recovery is harder than walking, & it's the part worth watching. Upright locomotion is a balance problem with a known starting state. A fall erases that. Predator lands in an arbitrary orientation, has to reconstruct its position from its own sensors, then sequence dozens of joints through a push-up while its center of mass moves the entire time. One error & it's back down. It did this under adversarial conditions, against Frankie LaPenna trying to prevent it. To be clear about what's being measured: REK's founder told NBC News these robots aren't autonomous. They are "100 percent" human pilots in VR headsets. So Predator is testing teleoperation latency, impact tolerance & balance recovery, not machine decision-making. Which makes it a more honest benchmark than most. Lab demos happen on flat floors under controlled conditions. You can't stage a knockdown from someone actively fighting you. Getting up is the gate on humanoids working anywhere near people. Predator cleared it in public, repeatedly, on video. 🦾

Predators weaponizing private images deserve serious jail time. We introduced the Responding to Exploitation and Sharing of Private Explicit Content and Threats (RESPECT) Act to crack down even harder on those who share or threaten to share private explicit images, including revenge p*rn and AI-generated deepfakes. Our bill increases maximum sentences to up to 5 years for adult victims and up to 10 years when the victim is a minor. No more slaps on the wrist. No more free passes. Predators belong behind bars.

Child predators cannot hide from us. @HSI_HQ, alongside state and local partners, arrested 70 child predators in Mississippi - including illegal aliens. We will never stop working to hunt down these revolting freaks and protect our nation's children.

Bitcoin is the apex predator. Big Tech's profits went from $197B to $840B since 2020. Priced in Bitcoin, they fell from 31M BTC to 14M BTC. The most profitable companies in history got 55% poorer in the hardest money on earth.

This stunning cosmic predator just won Astronomy’s top prize Kuwaiti photographer Ali Alobaidly spent two nights in the desert capturing the Shark Nebula. His image, The Quiet Predator, won the 2026 Astronomy Photographer of the Year competition and a £10,000 prize