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“Xenocortical mice” are a dramatic demonstration of organoid technologies.
A group of young mathematicians found the solution to the long unanswered conjecture, first inspired by juggling, through randomness and friendship.
Moving AI from text to 3D space, world models simulate real-world physics to teach robots and autonomous cars how to navigate reality.
MUSE raised $11M to take its store robot Armo from Japan to US shelves. Armo already hauls goods and scans shelves at Foodcellar Market in Long Island City. The new money funds mass production and a bigger US push through MUSE US. Source: Dealroom Video: MUSE #Robotics #RetailTech #PhysicalAI
An exclusive interview with Nick Cammarata, the researcher whose 26,000-word viral blog post has AI safety folks celebrating.
A recurring speech I’ve been giving to my team at work is that technical skill is no longer enough. Being able to write code, create PRDs or design in Figma is simply not enough. What we most need now from people is good judgement. AI agents can do the technical things but they lack judgment.
Robot learning just took over Austin. CoRL 2026 opens Monday: 2,094 papers submitted, 687 accepted, and the whole field chasing one thing, training data. Three demos show why. Source: CoRL 2026 Video: SuperMimic / UniIntervene / AutoDex #Robotics #CoRL2026
Apple trained a #Humanoid in 1,000 homes that do not exist. HALO learned from 300 hours of synthetic data, then hit 91% across 360 trials in six real, unmapped homes on a Unitree G1. Its data scales with compute, not human labor. Source: arXiv Video: Apple #Robotics #Humanoid #PhysicalAI
Axon just put $1.2B into Skydio, and now police buy its drones one way. The deal lifts Axon's stake to about 37% at a $5.2B valuation and makes it Skydio's exclusive public safety distributor in the US and Canada. Source: Axon Video: Skydio #Robotics #Drones
The Capytistas, a secretive group claiming more than $1.2 million in backing, started with Elon Musk and Tesla’s board. Members argue that those who buy political power deserve the scrutiny they’ll impose.
Parents want safer phones for kids. These companies are answering the call.
I think there is too much concern expressed about verification of AI output in everyday work due to a risk of factual errors (there might be things to verify beyond errors, though) It used to be true, but data on more recent models suggest they beat human experts in finding facts & checking claims.
Data centers need hands, not just chips. Darwin Robotics raised $3.6M to build robot technicians for them. Link Ventures led. The SF startup (YC F25) learns rack work from human demos. First deployments: early 2027. Source: RuntimeWire Video: Darwin Robotics #Robotics #DataCenters #PhysicalAI
When your project management process is garbage
Nintendo has lovingly updated the legendary ’98 title with new visuals, modern mechanics, and on-demand jumping. www.theverge.com/gadgets/1028...
I have seen two classes of AI productivity gains, each with different organizational challenges: 1. The 10x–100x engineer. 2. The 1.5x–2x team. Stephen Toub’s Copilot runtime rewrite is an example of the first. AirOps reporting 2x productivity and 5x revenue growth is an example of the second.
The government is approving sales of Nvidia’s AI chips to Chinese firms with ties to blacklisted companies. www.theverge.com/ai-artificia...
Researchers are breaking new ground in preserving organs by freezing them, pumping nutrients into them, or supercooling them.
Q3 seems to have been a huge quarter for the frontier labs. Here’s OpenAI’s CFO saying their business grew 70% quarter over quarter, enterprise sales doubled and they now have 1.2B weekly users. Anthropic also dropped that ARR hit $80B in October to the WSJ to rebut their IPO valuation decline news
The first humanoid cleared by the US government is a 4 foot 2 robot named Lumi. Lightberry won FCC Covered List approval by rebuilding Lumi's sensors, computer and software in house and committing to US manufacturing. Founder Edition: $39,990. Source: Lightberry Video: Lightberry #Robotics
Chatbots are often quite good at retrieving the information you want from the web. But sometimes you’ll get better results by typing your query into a good old search engine.
A spacecraft that builds itself just raised $20M. Rendezvous Robotics' TESSERAE tiles latch together with electromagnets to assemble structures in orbit. 32 fifth gen tiles fly to the ISS in December. Source: Rendezvous Robotics Video: Rendezvous Robotics #Robotics #SpaceTech
Zipline just raised $1.5B, and Walmart wants 300 more drone sites. From 21 sites today to 300 more, after 150M autonomous miles with no safety incident and 1M+ deliveries in Dallas Fort Worth this year. Source: Zipline Video: Zipline #Robotics #DroneDelivery
Shield AI is paying $5.3B for a radar company. Echodyne's MESA radar steers with no moving parts and already sits in hundreds of counter drone systems in 40+ countries. Shield raises $2.5B at a $28.8B valuation to buy it. Source: Shield AI Video: Shield AI #Robotics #DefenseTech
hot take: yes please ban all datacenter construction. That will force labs to make inference cheap sooner rather than later
These devices are still in development, and can’t replace all traditional transformers today. But a new generation of transformer technology could be a crucial part of our future grid.
The apps and platforms that help family caregivers manage their loved ones’ needs are becoming more capable, but the broader issue of caregivers’ well-being remains unsolved.
Self-driving shuttles are headed to Army bases. Forterra and May Mobility just advanced to Phase III of DIU's ROADS challenge, an up to $30M push for autonomy on base. Next: a month-long pilot at Fort Benning. Source: GlobeNewswire Video: May Mobility #Robotics #AutonomousVehicles #DefenseTech
Today’s LLMs are engineered to disobey dangerous requests. But AI refusal is far from foolproof—and could become an instrument of repression.
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