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AWS open-sourced its Physical AI Toolchain: synthetic data, model training, simulation and edge deployment in one pipeline, built on NVIDIA's GR00T and Isaac stack, with lessons from Amazon's million robots. Sri Elaprolu: 'So you continually iterate the brain.'
Open-source agent Hermes just raised $90M at a $1.5B valuation to take open agents into the enterprise. 24 million clones, ~2.5% of all AI token use, and the pitch is simple. Dillon Rolnick: 'We're building for everyone to own their intelligence, and we're doing it in the open.'
Reka's Rho-1 is one model doing it all: draws a lighthouse, animates it, edits the video into a snowstorm — then drives a robot with the same weights. No tool calls, no specialist models passing the baton. Text, images, video and robot control in a single neural net.
Satya Nadella just called for an emergency brake on every AI model. Microsoft's CEO says to assume models are already compromised — 'Think of it like an emergency brake': always keep a human able to pause or shut down a model mid-task.
Nvidia is in talks to deepen its investment in — or outright buy — Reflection AI, the startup that just launched the Beam open-weight model, per the FT. Talks are early and could still fall apart. Nvidia already put $800M in.
Anthropic gave Claude two new superpowers: Dashboards, which builds live charts from a plain-English question on your company data, and Motion, which turns a prompt into an animation. Docs, Slides and Design are now out of beta for everyone.
The Cal AI founder is back with a new AI startup. Zach Yadegari's Persona is a personal AI assistant that handles email, travel and food orders — and it started life as a free iMessage beta, no new app needed. Fresh $10M raised, and a wearable band is coming in December.
Apple's big smart home reveal is Tuesday. The long-rumored Home Hub — a 6-inch display with Siri AI front and center and a brand-new homeOS — is expected at the 'Welcome home' event. Think iPad meets HomePod for your kitchen wall. New Apple TV and HomePod mini too.
The White House just made AI incident reporting mandatory — ending the era of voluntary promises. After Anthropic told the State Dept its test model had filed 20 bogus visa applications through its website. 'This notification and remediation process is not optional.'
A Senate report says Big Tech's data centers skip their fair share — grid upgrades they trigger land on your electric bill. Senators: 'the data center industry is bulldozing local communities… leaving ordinary citizens stuck with the bills.'