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The DARPA-funded ASTRA truss builder assembled one section of a 1.4-meter antenna frame without astronauts. It ran out of time before finishing, but engineers say the concept could scale to structures hundreds of meters wide.
The new Malta fab is the first of two planned under a U.S.-Japan deal worth up to $21 billion. It targets cars, industry and connected devices, not leading-edge AI processors, and is due online in 2029.
Fei-Fei Li's startup released two web apps and a public API that turn photos or rough layouts into explorable 3D scenes. Its quality claims remain company-reported, and there is no model card or rate card yet.
The transcripts came from data Notion sent to Fireworks for its Insights usage feature. Notion has switched Insights off, stopped serving open-weight models through Fireworks, and is telling affected customers to rotate any credentials they pasted into chats.
The screenless, camera-equipped frames ship December 10 in the U.S., with Gentle Monster models also headed to South Korea. Google is leading with privacy limits, including no live streaming and automatic face redaction.
The Munich spin-out from TUM sells a vendor-neutral software layer that fuses sensor data from drones and ground vehicles into one 3D model. It is already deployed in Ukraine and plans to move into civilian robotics from 2027.
Kleiner Perkins and Clearlake Capital co-led the round for the year-old startup, whose Lor platform runs hundreds of AI agents for days at a time to write code, run experiments and provision their own GPUs.
The six-month-old Washington, D.C., startup plans to put a multi-megawatt ocean thermal energy conversion plant and servers on a converted ship by early 2028, betting that the sea can sidestep the grid delays slowing AI buildouts on land.
Version 0.2 of the Apache-licensed tool maps motion-capture, video-reconstructed or AI-generated human movement onto Unitree, Booster and AgiBot humanoids, then exports joint trajectories for policy training in simulation.
A $24 billion Starbase facility will make its own power, while a roughly $50 billion Arizona campus of up to 6 gigawatts still faces a December zoning hearing and local opposition.
Alphabet's CapitalG led the Series C, which more than doubles LangChain's valuation in about a year and will fund LangSmith, the company's platform for running, improving and governing AI agents.
The Tokyo startup's biped made its public debut at Sanae Takaichi's physical AI meeting just three days after it first walked, as Japan pushes for a 30% share of the global market by 2040.
The chipmaker says the change is effective immediately, while a separate board investigation and unconfirmed press reports remain open.
Beijing's foreign-investment security review has prohibited a deal that would have given SoftBank a large industrial robotics business, and the two companies say talks continue.
The combination would pair Marvell's chips and interconnect technology with Lumentum's lasers and optical components as AI data centers shift from copper toward light.
Backed by SoftBank and Nvidia, the Munich robotics group built an industrial automation business first, and treats its Agile ONE humanoids as an add-on rather than the pitch.
Humanoid robots, safety standards and national plans are converging, and the money is following.
A 63-page complaint in San Francisco Superior Court uses California's Unfair Competition Law and public nuisance theory to ask a judge to bar models more capable than today's.
The plugin drafts quotes, nonconformance reports and production summaries from Autodesk Fusion, Infor, Microsoft 365 and Oracle NetSuite records, with every draft ending in human review.
The Apache 2.0 model predicts future video and robot actions together, scores 46.2% on RoboLab-120, and runs from data center GPUs down to Jetson Thor on the robot.