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Agility Robotics goes public at $2.5B via SPAC
$620M raised funds Digit v5 production and a 30+ enterprise customer pipeline already evaluating large-scale deployments.
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TechCrunch 1 sourceHIW-500: largest humanoid teleoperation dataset
Bitrobot releases 500 hours of real-home humanoid teleoperation data — the largest claimed collection of its kind, now open for robotics research.
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Thomas Wolf 1 sourceOpenAI and Broadcom unveil Jalapeño inference chip
OpenAI's first custom silicon targets LLM inference efficiency at scale, reducing dependency on Nvidia for serving.
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OpenAI 1 sourceMistral OCR 4 leads new open OCR crop
Benchmark Mistral OCR 4 (85.2 OlmOCRBench, 72% human-preferred) and open-weight lift/Surya 2 against your doc pipeline before committing.
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The Decoder, TestingCatalog, +2 4 sourcesTwo papers tackle long-horizon agent memory
Self-compacting context and procedural memory frameworks are converging — agents can now manage their own context without external patches.
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Jack Lindsey, Shunyu Yao 2 sourcesNVIDIA now powers 81% of TOP500 supercomputers
GPUs in 238 systems, networking in 376; NVIDIA delivers 2x AI training and 3x inference throughput of all other platforms combined.
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NVIDIA AI 1 sourceSakana Fugu: strong benchmarks, fraud flag
Fugu routes across a swappable LLM pool and claims frontier parity — but Biderman flags a verifiably false claim, and real-world tests show 30-min latency and results well short of actual frontier models.
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Colorado guts AI bias law before it took effect
Pre-deployment bias audits are gone; only post-decision consumer notice remains, delayed to 2027 — driven by xAI lawsuit and DOJ intervention.
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TechTimes 1 sourceAnthropic ships ambient Claude teammate for Slack
Claude Tag maintains persistent cross-channel memory for enterprise teams; admins scope each identity to specific channels and toolsets.
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