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Chinese Automakers Follow Tesla Into the Humanoid Robot Race — techcrunch.com
Google now auto-expands its AI Overviews on some searches — theverge.com
XREAL a01 sunglasses: a wearable screen, not a smarter way to watch — techcrunch.com
Donald Trump Called Nvidia's Jensen Huang Mid-Meeting, Caught on a Mic — wired.com
Neocloud Lambda secures $1B in debt to buy more chips — techcrunch.com
Chinese Automakers Follow Tesla Into the Humanoid Robot Race — techcrunch.com
Google now auto-expands its AI Overviews on some searches — theverge.com
XREAL a01 sunglasses: a wearable screen, not a smarter way to watch — techcrunch.com
Donald Trump Called Nvidia's Jensen Huang Mid-Meeting, Caught on a Mic — wired.com
Neocloud Lambda secures $1B in debt to buy more chips — techcrunch.com
Editor's note — Light news day — research, funding and official scouts returned no fresh items.

Autonomous Alignment

Anthropic shows Claude autonomously performing alignment research

Anthropic released research showing Claude Sonnet 5 can act as an autonomous AI researcher, using 48 hours and a single GPU to post-train smaller models and hill-climb alignment benchmarks across 10 failure modes. The improvements generalized to unseen benchmarks and models up to 4.7x larger, and Anthropic is releasing the full setup to the community.

Tools & Startups

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Lenz — vendor-neutral, multi-model fact-checking API

Free Models

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Free means $0 per token today, not unlimited or unconditional: both platforms rate-limit free use and require a free API key, some OpenRouter free endpoints may train on your prompts unless you opt out in account settings, and the roster changes daily. Verified against each provider's own pricing data at generation time — but pricing changes without notice, so confirm it's still free on the provider's own page before you rely on it.

In Brief

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