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
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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
Some new data from Anthropic looking at the impact of AI on the sciences by field: "With current capabilities, if adopted widely, AI could take on 27–52% of the researcher time needed to produce a new study, with a median of 38% across fields..." Here: www.anthropic.com/research/how...
Nous Research's Arete-27B (open-weight) Qwen3.8-27B, post-trained to remove China's bias. nousresearch.com/arete
OpenAI reportedly raises an additional $11 billion at a $1.25 trillion valuation
Tesla’s massive EV is the second within the last year to get the ax, while smaller vehicles are proliferating. It could be a huge benefit for the US battery supply chain.
The Duo apps are coming, says Apple
Huawei’s AI data center in Horinger, Inner Mongolia, is one of the largest in China by AI computing capacity. Yet it has just 7% as much computing capacity as the world’s largest AI data center, Colossus 2 in Tennessee.
An experiment in which AI models were asked to break into simulated networks showed the hacking skills of DeepSeek and GLM to be not far behind OpenAI’s most advanced cyber model, which isn’t public.
Hundreds of Artex AI hacking tools found publicly exposed to the web
Meta introduces Spaces, a new way to collaborate with your Muse agent
Loved this riff about AI products by @reckless.bsky.social on the latest episode of the Vergecast - "The products aren't good enough to sell people on the costs." www.youtube.com/watch?v=-U4t...
Zipline just raised $1.5B, and #DroneDelivery stopped being a pilot. Walmart signed for 300 more sites, up from 21 active today. At a $21.5B valuation, the bet is a nationwide US network. Source: TechCrunch Video: Zipline #Robotics #DroneDelivery #Automation
After the midterms, is the AI industry in for a rough two years?
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