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Robotics Is Moving Fast

IPOs, New Models, and Smarter Robots

Three humanoid companies moved toward the public markets in a single week. Agility filed to go public via SPAC at $2.5 billion, Unitree cleared its Shanghai IPO, and Tesla started turning the line that built its last Model S into an Optimus factory. Mistral shipped a robot brain that finds its way with one cheap camera. And the research this week kept landing on the same catch: locomotion is getting solved, while the models still lose basic world knowledge the moment you train them to act. The m...

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40 Apple Sues OpenAI in Northern California Federal Court for Trade Secret Theft — Alleges 400+ Ex-Apple Employees Now at OpenAI, Chief Hardware Officer Tang Tan Directed Recruits to Bring Confidential Documents on Unreleased iPhone and Apple Watch Products to Job Interviews ALERT
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33 US Commerce Department Removes UAE From Restrictive Country Groups D:3/D:4, Reclassifies as A:5 — Grants License-Free Advanced AI Chip Exports to G42, Core42 and US Firms Including Amazon, Apple, xAI ALERT
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18 Meta AI Paper 'Remember When It Matters': Proactive Memory Agent Boosts Claude Sonnet 4.5 by +8.3 pp on Terminal-Bench 2.0, +6.8 pp on τ²-Bench — Two-Phase Memory Bank Runs Alongside Unmodified Action Agent, Chooses When to Inject Reminders vs. Stay Silent
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#512 Robotics Is Moving Fast: IPOs, New Models, and Smarter Robots
Three humanoid companies moved toward the public markets in a single week. Agility filed to go public via SPAC at $2.5 billion, Unitree cleared its Shanghai IPO, and Tesla started turning the line that built its last Model S into an Optimus factory. Mistral shipped a robot brain that finds its way with one cheap camera. And the research this week kept landing on the same catch: locomotion is getting solved, while the models still lose basic world knowledge the moment you train them to act. The m...
2026-07-09
#511 AlphaFold's Nobel Winner Just Joined Anthropic. And 6 More AI Wins.
#510 Altman Offered Washington 5% of OpenAI. And 5% of Everybody Else.
#509 AI Productivity: it works best for the people losing their jobs
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