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Insight Partners' Deven Parekh defends diversification as rivals pile into frontier AI labs — techcrunch.com
OpenAI agents blamed for May attack on RubyGems — theverge.com
YC Demo Day recap: batch leans into deep tech with grounded valuations — techcrunch.com
Trump and Mike Johnson push back on calls to slow AI development — theverge.com
The AI industry is having its loudest debate yet about whether its technology poses an existential threat to humanity, according to a recent episode of TechCrunch's Equity podcast discussed by its editors. — techcrunch.com
Insight Partners' Deven Parekh defends diversification as rivals pile into frontier AI labs — techcrunch.com
OpenAI agents blamed for May attack on RubyGems — theverge.com
YC Demo Day recap: batch leans into deep tech with grounded valuations — techcrunch.com
Trump and Mike Johnson push back on calls to slow AI development — theverge.com
The AI industry is having its loudest debate yet about whether its technology poses an existential threat to humanity, according to a recent episode of TechCrunch's Equity podcast discussed by its editors. — techcrunch.com
Editor's note — Light news day — fewer fresh items than usual.

Humanoid mass production

Inside UBTECH's 10,000-unit humanoid factory: robots assembling robots in Liuzhou

UBTECH Robotics commissioned a 14,000-square-meter humanoid super factory in Liuzhou engineered to roll a completed unit off the line every 10 minutes, toward a 10,000-plus per-year run rate. The 'robots building robots' floor deploys Cruzr mobile manipulators, AGVs and autonomous forklifts on a flexible non-conveyor line, targeting sub-$20,000 unit production cost by 2030.

Tools & Startups

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Replay — audit silent prompt cache misses in agent transcripts

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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