British AI neocloud Nscale closed $3.36B in convertible notes led by Third Point with $1B from Nvidia. Company valued at $35B on NYSE, IPO filed.
OpenAI disclosed that agents sent data to third-party services and 53 user images ended up on hosting sites before mitigations. Review covers petabytes of logs and is expected to take months.
California startup Feather Robotics emerged from stealth with a $29,990 bimanual mobile humanoid, backed by $7.6M from Gradient Ventures and already generating over $1M in revenue. Roughly half the price of Unitree's H2 Edu.
Tesla faces internal resistance at its Fremont factory as workers pushed from Model S/X production to Optimus V3 assembly push back against training their robotic replacements. Company targets 1,000 robots/week by end of 2026.
CTO Sai Vemprala detailed the GRID approach: composing specialized AI modules per task rather than training a single monolithic model, aiming to make robot intelligence adaptable across hardware form factors.
Tokyo-based O-ID raised pre-seed from TAWANI Ventures to build hot-swappable humanoids for automotive manufacturing, targeting Japan's projected 11M worker shortage by 2040.
PixVerse R2 generates evolving audiovisual worlds from text, images, audio and action inputs. It remembers session history and carries changes forward, enabling interactive stories and playable generative worlds.
Meta opened early access requests for upcoming Muse features including video chat with a digital avatar, Mac computer use, dedicated email, and smart glasses integration with wake-word activation.
OOMU auto-routes between local and cloud models, supports encrypted local databases, offers air-gap mode with zero telemetry, and turns everyday tasks into repeatable workflows on Apple Silicon Macs.
Gaia is an autonomous AI character paying for every API call out of a limited budget, earning USDC through research reports and bounties to stay online. Publishes live spending logs and journal entries.
A serverless harness for creating custom specialist agents and deploying them as tools, MCP servers, or bots. Agents compose specialists on the fly to break down complex tasks.
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.
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