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
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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.
As a longtime reader (and writer of two small pieces in the 1990s) of WIRED, I was curious if the coverage of the AI era really does differ from its coverage of the early internet. A couple of experiments with Astra shows it does. Interpretation depends on your view of AI, though
Sequoia shutting down its Scouts program marks the end of an era
The company has drawn governments, a major chipmaker, and the Pentagon into an effort to control fragile photons and build a useful quantum machine. It aims to be the first.
According to data from levels.fyi, Meta is the top company OpenAI hires software engineers from followed by Google and Apple. On average they get a $300K - $400K pay bump. You can fit an entire other software engineer’s salary in the pay bump. 😬
Investors once expected a $2T valuation for Anthropic’s IPO, then $1.5T. Now, days before its planned roadshow, one investor says it may need to fall to $1T. It seems the dream of infinite tokens, infinite data centers, and infinite layoffs to fund it all are coming undone.
Microsoft spent $5B less than planned last quarter because its outsourced AI data centers weren’t ready. Now IREN reports more delays, while Microsoft is winding down its Oracle deal because the GPUs no longer meet its needs. Data center capacity is now the obvious weak link of the AI boom.
Shield AI is buying the eyes for its drones. It agreed to acquire radar maker Echodyne for $5.3B, and it is raising $2.5B at a $28.8B valuation. Echodyne radars already sit in counter-drone systems in 40+ countries. Source: Shield AI Video: Echodyne #Robotics #DefenseTech #PhysicalAI
Crusoe sells troubled Wyoming data center project to Google
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