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Sam Altman will travel to Washington next week to brief Trump administration officials and lawmakers on OpenAI’s upcoming models, as the government moves toward a formal framework for reviewing frontier AI systems before they reach the public. What’s Happening in Washington Chris Lehane, OpenAI’s global affairs chief, said the discussions will cover the new model…
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Samsung Electronics said Tuesday it is setting up a robotics division that reports directly to the company’s chief executive, naming a former Hyundai Motor Group robotics strategist to lead it as Samsung moves to turn robotics into a commercial business line. The new unit, called RX for Robotics eXperience, consolidates work Samsung had previously split…
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CuspAI, a Cambridge, UK based startup that uses generative AI to design new materials, has closed a funding round reported at roughly $450 million, with Jeff Bezos’s family office Bezos Expeditions and Kleiner Perkins among the lead investors. The deal pushes the two-year-old company’s valuation to about $2.6 billion, up from $520 million less than…
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Alibaba has released a preview of Qwen3.8 Max, a 2.4 trillion-parameter model the company says will follow with open weights in the coming weeks. The preview went live Sunday on Alibaba’s Token Plan, alongside its Qoder and QoderWork coding platforms. Qwen3.8 Max is a sparse mixture of experts model and, according to Qwen developer Shuai…
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SpaceX has found a way to profit from the AI compute shortage without locking itself into long-term commitments. Contracts worth billions of dollars to lease Nvidia GPU capacity to Anthropic and Google include a 90-day clause allowing the company to reclaim the hardware if Grok’s computing needs increase. SpaceX agreed in May to give Anthropic…
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Shenzhen-based LimX Dynamics closed a pre-IPO funding round of nearly $200 million on July 14, valuing the humanoid robotics maker at roughly 15 billion yuan, or $2.21 billion. Co founder Will Zhang didn’t soften the reasoning behind the raise: with technology maturity reached, he told reporters, going public is now “a must,” drawing a direct…
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Moonshot AI’s Kimi K3 release drew most of the early WAIC 2026 headlines, but the hardware floor at Shanghai’s World Expo Exhibition Hall tells a different half of the same story. KEENON Robotics, the world’s top-shipping commercial service robot maker, is running live demonstrations of humanoid robots folding laundry alongside its delivery bots. Lens Technology,…
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Moonshot AI unveiled Kimi K3 on Friday, describing it as the world’s largest open weight AI model. The launch coincided with the opening of China’s World AI Conference (WAIC) in Shanghai, where domestic AI companies are using the event to showcase the latest advances in large language models. Full model weights are scheduled for release…
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For years, the humanoid robotics industry has been fueled by venture capital, blockbuster valuations, and carefully staged demonstrations. Now it faces a tougher test: public markets. Agility Robotics’ planned listing could become the first real measure of whether investors believe commercial deployment can justify the industry’s soaring expectations. Agility isn’t alone. Unitree Robotics has filed…
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The Future of Life Institute has released its Summer 2026 AI Safety Index, an independent scorecard grading nine major AI developers on safety and governance practices. Anthropic finished first for the second consecutive edition of the report, leading five of six evaluated domains. Its overall grade was a C+ the highest score any company achieved,…