Physical and electronic isolation from people we disagree with allows conformation bias, groupthink and tribalism to push us increasingly farther apart. Live within your values and strive to keep an open mind.

Physical AI is moving from demos into infrastructure job sites. Gritt has launched with $32.4M in pre-seed and Series A funding to bring robotics and AI into large-scale construction, starting with solar farms. The company’s approach is practical: instead of building a fully proprietary robot fleet, Gritt attaches robotic systems to existing jobsite equipment such as skid steers and forklifts. That lets its machines handle repeatable physical work like pick-and-place, material transport and assembly in outdoor environments where dust, terrain and weather make automation much harder than in factories.

Physical AI needs more than better robots. It needs real-world training data. Business Insider reported that Munich-based robotics startup microagi has raised a $55M seed round, described as the largest seed round ever secured by a German startup. Microagi is not trying to build its own robot hardware. Instead, it trains existing robotics models with footage of real workers performing physical tasks, captured through cameras and sensor-equipped gloves. Its data-collection arm, shift, now operates in 15 countries and pays more than 20,000 people to record real-world tasks. Source: Business Insider

Physical AI will run on billions of devices. Centralized infra means someone else controls the robot in your house. Local-first changes that equation, same logic we build into QVAC. Full piece on why decentralization is the safety requirement, not a nice-to-have:

Physical attacks on crypto holders are rising. Wrench attacks. Home invasions. Kidnappings. The reason is simple: on a transparent chain, anyone with a block explorer can see exactly how much you hold. Privacy-by-default blockchains take that target off your back. 🔒

Physical AI & hardware investment is growing 20x faster than software investment this year. Building in the physical world with AI as a first class citizen is going to shape the next decade of investments. Path has been doing this for 8 years, it is not easy, it is not fast, but it is the future. The rise of embodied intelligence is happening