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New York is turning the RAISE Act into live rules: frontier AI labs get directed to register in November, with 72-hour critical-incident reporting and DIGIT oversight starting January 2027.

https://t.co/8n8w77dcTt

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Kodiak AI + PrePass are plugging driverless-truck Enhanced Inspections into state roadside screening — Texas and Louisiana first — so autonomous rigs can clear weigh stations the way fleets already do.

https://t.co/cQkM8pRZlN

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AWS Strands Agents open-sourced Strands harness — a batteries-included Apache 2.0 agent that runs locally or on any cloud, claiming ~28% lower token cost on the same models.

https://t.co/hLLxEqWrF1

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MiniMax open-sourced MiniMax Code, an MIT-licensed terminal coding agent with TUI, headless CI mode, and Agent Client Protocol.

https://t.co/9yYP3oWlIC

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Meshy’s Mora builds interactive worlds in layers — coding agents for rules, Meshy 3D for space, realtime video for pixels — with playable Mora 1 at https://t.co/a6FY4PT2nj.

https://t.co/b5KzTMgecU

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OpenAI wants the U.S. to lead global technical standards for frontier AI — common RSI/automation metrics, incident reporting, and CAISI-centered coordination.

https://t.co/2w8ymuaa33

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Boston Dynamics opened RMAC inside Hyundai’s Georgia Metaplant to train Atlas on real auto-plant logistics — with Group plans citing ~25k units at Hyundai/Kia plants.

https://t.co/LvkILPxEDb

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Einride is adapting NVIDIA DRIVE Hyperion (plus Halos/Cosmos/Blackwell) for heavy-duty autonomous freight on a network that already runs electric trucks for shippers.

https://t.co/QTtMduwi0Z

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BigID launches AgentIQ — an agentic layer to find, decide, and remediate data/AI security risks from Claude, Copilot, GPT, or Gemini.

https://t.co/zwHsgCBHvO

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FAA turns on SMART — an AI airspace tool — in limited mode around D.C. (DCA, Dulles, BWI). It pulls ~200 data streams to flag congestion early; humans still review every suggestion.

https://t.co/DKblG2FWOz

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Iambic Therapeutics files an SEC Form S-1 (Sep 21) to take its AI drug-discovery platform public — proposed Nasdaq ticker IAM. Discrete from the same-day AbbVie deal and Enchant v3 launch.

https://t.co/6cT1zdf6zE

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Azure Cosmos DB drops the first database extension for GitHub Spec Kit — a Spec→Plan→Tasks→Implement→Review path for coding agents (public preview).

https://t.co/ufdYfRuFNg

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Huawei launches Fintelligent AI for banks at CONNECT 2026 — Agent, Token, and Data-Knowledge factories on openJiuwen, pitched as “Own Your AI.”

https://t.co/bHhqVwv9uQ

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ams OSRAM unveils Thin-Film microVCSEL arrays aimed at AI scale-up optical links — ~0.25 pJ/bit, 32 Gb/s demo, BizLink multi-core fiber at ECOC 2026.

https://t.co/3AtjxFromY

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PE firm Hg deepens its Anthropic partnership — Hg Catalyst to push Claude’s agentic tools across the portfolio. Hg cites 1,600+ live AI projects and $260M budgeted EBITDA impact.

https://t.co/K04nyuwqRz

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https://t.co/y9B7ayB70V commits $4M to Digital Promise for free AI skills training for U.S. teachers and faculty — Google AI Educator Series, announced at UNGA.

https://t.co/voZx7tfQGP

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British Columbia is suing OpenAI in California over the Tumbler Ridge school shooting — the AG says the company failed to alert police to threats on its platform beforehand.

https://t.co/vF7qJ2iLbH

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Security researcher Patrick Wardle disclosed a Muse zero-day: any local Mac app can rewrite the assistant’s dictation endpoint, steal the Muse token, and lean on the agent’s privileges.

https://t.co/UiUjgNLFTG

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Microsoft Research open-sourced RetroChimera — an AI that plans how to make a molecule in the lab (retrosynthesis), with a Nature paper and MIT weights. Collaborators include GSK and Novartis.

https://t.co/ShQAyoXA9u

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New physical-AI bet: Light-O1 learns whole-body moves from internet video, then retargets them to robots — with a 6B open preview on Hugging Face.

https://t.co/lWRHkBTmA6