Faraday Future Showcases Its EAI Robot World Across Three High-Level Silicon Valley Robotics and AGI Summits, Drawing Strong Developer Interest and Advancing Its New "Four-Core Full-Stack AI" Ecosystem Strategy

LOS ANGELES--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jul 16, 2026--

Faraday Future Intelligent Electric Inc. (NASDAQ: FFAI) (“Faraday Future”, “FF” or the “Company”), a California-based global Embodied AI (EAI) ecosystem company, today shared highlights from its participation in three high-level robotics and AGI industry summits in Silicon Valley, where Chris Chen, Co-CEO of FF AI-Robotics, is demonstrating the Company's EAI robots and delivering remarks on its robotics strategy.

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The three summits gather leading academic, industry, and frontier-technology communities in the Bay Area. On Sunday, July 12, FF joined the Humanity & AGI Summit 2026: Robotics for Future Civilization, hosted by the AI Robotics Alliance of America (AIRA) at the Stanford Faculty Club. On July 16, FF was invited to take part in AUTONOMOUS 2026 at The Midway in San Francisco, a full-day gathering of hundreds of robotics founders, engineers, and investors. It will next appear at AGI Summit SF 2026 at the Palace of Fine Arts on July 18 and 19, one of Silicon Valley's largest AGI conferences, with FF's session set for Sunday, July 19.

At each summit, FF brought its robots onto the show floor for live demonstrations. It showcased the All-New Futurist, an All-in-One professional expert humanoid robot, alongside Navi, the first foundational EAI education quadruped robot in the U.S., putting real motion control, autonomous navigation, and open, developer-ready design in front of working roboticists, researchers, and founders.

The response was strong. Developers, researchers, investors, and potential partners engaged the FF team in extensive discussions about its open EAI Brain and developer platform, a sign that FF, though a new entrant, has quickly won the attention of Silicon Valley's core robotics and AI community.

On that momentum, FF is now advancing cooperation agreements with several developers from Stanford and UC Berkeley backgrounds, centered on the industrial, security & inspection, and education sectors. Together they aim to bring more robot Skills and Agents and complete industry productivity solutions into real-world deployment.

That work maps directly onto FF's upgraded robotics strategy, which recently evolved from the “Three-in-One” ecosystem to the “Four-Core Full-Stack AI” ecosystem by adding Industry Productivity Solutions and Developer Platform as a fourth core, alongside the EAI Brain, EAI Devices, and EAI Data Factory. Targeting education, industrial, security & inspection, and other existing markets, the new core marks FF's shift from standalone device capabilities to complete, deliverable industry solutions, with its Silicon Valley engagement turning frontier research talent into solutions built around real industry needs.

“Silicon Valley brings together some of the world's strongest robotics and AI talent, and the response to our EAI robots at these summits confirms that developers are looking for open, deployable platforms they can build real products on,” said Chris Chen, Co-CEO of FF AI-Robotics at FF. “We are moving quickly to turn that interest into signed collaborations with developers from top institutions, and to channel their work into industry productivity solutions across education, industrial, and security & inspection scenarios. This is exactly what our upgraded Four-Core Full-Stack AI strategy is built to accelerate.”

FF views an open developer ecosystem as a core driver of its EAI strategy. By combining its Full-Form FF EAI Robot World, open EAI Brain and developer platform, EAI Data Factory, and a growing base of external developers, the Company aims to speed the practical deployment of robots across real industry scenarios and advance the transformation of the U.S. robotics industry.

ABOUT FARADAY FUTURE

Founded in 2014, Faraday Future (FF) is a U.S.-based Physical AI ecosystem company dedicated to reshaping the future of robotics and mobility solutions through AI innovation and technologies. FF focuses on two major product strategies within the Embodied AI (EAI) robotics business: EAI humanoid and bionic robots, and EAI automotive-focused robots. By building a “Four-Core Full-Stack AI” ecosystem of “EAI Brain, EAI Device, Industry Productivity Solutions and the Developer Platform, and EAI Data Factory,” FF aims to create an evolutionary flywheel: scaled device delivery, data collection and training, continuous evolution of the EAI Brain, stronger product capability, and even larger-scale delivery and deployment. Through this flywheel, FF seeks to maximize its commercial value and lead to the advancement of Physical AI. For more information, please visit Faraday Future's official website: https://www.ff.com/

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Faraday Future Showcases Its EAI Robot World Across Three High-Level Silicon Valley Robotics and AGI Summits, Drawing Strong Developer Interest and Advancing Its New "Four-Core Full-Stack AI" Ecosystem Strategy

Faraday Future Showcases Its EAI Robot World Across Three High-Level Silicon Valley Robotics and AGI Summits, Drawing Strong Developer Interest and Advancing Its New "Four-Core Full-Stack AI" Ecosystem Strategy

As President Donald Trump threatened sanctions for those who didn’t cover his address live Thursday night, the nation’s broadcast and cable news operations wrestled with the thorniest of questions: To air or not to air?

Networks and their news operations, broadcast and cable alike, spent the hours leading up to Trump’s address debating how to cover it — and struggling to balance delivering the news with handing over their airwaves to potential falsehoods about the 2020 elections.

In the end, a patchwork quilt of coverage was largely united by one common strategy: real-time fact-checking as much as was possible even while the president was still speaking.

The dilemma took place against a backdrop of deep tension between the media and a president working to exert control over it by whatever means he can. Even in his speech itself, Trump excoriated networks that chose not to carry it live, saying that “NBC and ABC fake news” avoided it because they “don't like the topic.” He also threatened them with consequences, using the presidential pulpit to suggest they should be sanctioned for their editorial decisions.

"They and others in the media are part of a plot," Trump said, offering no evidence for his assertion. There is also no evidence of fraud in the 2020 elections.

“They want to continue this fraud for whatever reason. They want to keep it going," he said. "Fraud like this should mean a revocation of their licenses. They use our public multibillion-dollar-in-value airwaves for absolutely no money. They pay nothing. All we want is honesty in our elections and honesty in reporting.”

The tension between Trump and the news media during his second term has taken many forms, from sanctions against members of the White House press corps to regulatory actions through the Federal Communications Commission to outright lawsuits.

The media outlets' decision-making — seemingly last-minute, for many, with networks divulging their plans minutes beforehand — produced a variety of coverage scenarios for the 24 minutes of Trump’s address.

CNN’s Kaitlan Collins anchored her nightly program. “We aren’t taking it live,” she said of the speech, given the president’s “well-documented history” of falsehoods. Panelists were on hand for analysis and fact-checking. “Sadly, we have no choice to be skeptical when this president talks elections,” said the network’s veteran correspondent John King.

Fox News and Fox Broadcasting aired the president’s speech live. But ABC and NBC did not, sticking with regular programming — “Press Your Luck,” in ABC's case, and an animal show featuring alligators in NBC's. But they were ready to cut in as they deemed newsworthy, as well as offering special reports afterwards.

Both ABC and NBC, however, provided live coverage on their streaming channels — NBC News NOW and ABC News Live — as well as ABC News Radio. In the still-young era of streaming, that is increasingly a decision that allows network news to play it both ways.

As for CBS, the network did preempt regular programming — a summer rerun of “Georgie & Mandy’s First Marriage” — to air a special report anchored by Tony Dokoupil. The report joined the live speech a few minutes in, at 9:06, and left it before the end, at 9:23.

MS NOW started airing the speech, then cut away for analysis and commentary after 17 minutes on host Jen Psaki’s show. Psaki used the split screen for a bit, with her speaking on the right and a muted Trump appearing on the left.

By the end, of the top networks, the speech was continuing live only on Fox News.

Robert Thompson, director of Syracuse University’s Bleier Center for Television and Popular Culture, said coverage of the 24- minute address made for “a weird evening, where the reporters quote and describe the speech but show little of what they’re quoting." Thompson said full coverage was the way to go even — and perhaps especially — if the speech was believed to contain falsehoods.

“When the president of the United States makes an announcement that there is going to be a major speech with major information, however cynical we are … I think that is, by definition, important civic news significant to the citizenry,” he said. “It’s the president making the speech, and if the president does what everybody’s worried about him doing, that is a real reason to be covering it, to bear witness on exactly what gets said."

Earlier Thursday, at the White House briefing, press secretary Karoline Leavitt had urged TV networks to carry the speech live. And Fox News Channel’s Sean Hannity said on his show that major networks not going live was “pretty unheard of for a primetime address for a president.”

Broadcast networks, though, have previously declined primetime coverage to President Barack Obama for a 2014 speech on immigration, and President Joe Biden for his speech on democracy, “Battle for the Soul of the Nation,” in 2022.

The backdrop of Thursday’s speech was an ever-increasing tension between the media and the administration. Broadcast networks have been under close scrutiny by the Trump-appointed chair of the FCC, Brendan Carr, who has launched early reviews of licenses of some ABC-owned stations and threatened to revoke the long-held exemption from equal time rules for the popular talk show “The View.”

Trump’s animosity toward news outlets whose agenda runs counter to his own isn’t new. But in his second presidential term, he has launched an escalation, often harnessing the levers of the federal government or attempting to do so. The efforts have taken place both in actual courtrooms and in the court of public opinion.

A reporter prepares to film a stand-up as President Donald Trump speaks from the East Room of the White House, Thursday, July 16, 2026, in Washington. (AP Photo/Julia Demaree Nikhinson)

A reporter from Buro, a Russian-language YouTube channel, films a video in front of the White House as President Donald Trump speaks in the East Room, Thursday, July 16, 2026, in Washington. (AP Photo/Julia Demaree Nikhinson)

CBS News correspondent Ed O'Keefe prepares to film a stand-up as President Donald Trump speaks from the East Room of the White House, Thursday, July 16, 2026, in Washington. (AP Photo/Julia Demaree Nikhinson)

President Donald Trump is seen speaking from the East Room on a television in the West Wing of the White House, Thursday, July 16, 2026, in Washington. (AP Photo/Julia Demaree Nikhinson)

President Donald Trump speaks in the East Room of the White House, Thursday, July 16, 2026, in Washington. (Saul Loeb/Pool via AP)