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NCP-ArchPreview Hits OLMo-3's Loss on Half the Training Tokens
An 8.94B model predicts the next token and the next "concept". It hits OLMo-3-7B’s loss on 51.3% of the token budget.
Unitree's Dex5-S: 22 Degrees of Freedom for $6,500
Unitree priced its new Dex5-S dexterous hand from $6,500 and claims 22 degrees of freedom. It did not say how many of those are actuated, nor did it publish weight, grip force or a delivery date.
RPent Lifts a Frozen VLA From 11% to 92% on LIBERO-PRO
RPent wraps a frozen VLA in an agent with an LLM planner and memory. On LIBERO-PRO, π0.5 jumps from 11.0% to 92.63%.
A 0-Day in Muse Lets Any Local App Hijack Meta's Assistant
Patrick Wardle found a flaw in Muse that lets any macOS app grab the token and take full control of a user’s Meta assistant account.
OpenAI Sets Up a Math Advisory Group With No Say Over Its Pace
OpenAI set up a nine-member math advisory group at the IAS in Princeton. It reviews results but has no say over the company’s pace.
Xiaomi Opens MiMo-V2.6. Its RL Run Cost $3.47 Million
Xiaomi released MiMo-V2.6 weights under MIT and, unusually, disclosed the RL bill: $3.47 million for under six days of training.
Anthropic Runs a Biology Wet Lab in the Bay Area
Anthropic has confirmed it operates a wet biology lab in the Bay Area where its AI models run physical experiments. A day earlier the company launched the Life Sciences Verification Program, relaxing Claude safeguards for vetted biologists.
AI Hallucination Nearly Triggered a US Strike on a Chinese Ship
In spring 2026 US aircraft took off for a strike on a Chinese vessel, based on an intelligence report fabricated by a chatbot. The mission was aborted at the last minute.
Google's CC: an AI agent that runs the family schedule
Google Labs has refocused its CC agent on household coordination. It gets its own Google account, supports up to six members and adds calendar events itself. The experiment is US-only and limited to adults.
AI designed an inference chip in two weeks. Now it must prove it
Architect Labs’ AI system designed the Redwood inference accelerator in under two weeks — from specification to bug-free RTL on FPGA. Silicon projections promise 3.4× better performance per watt than the Jetson Orin Nano. The silicon does not exist yet.
Gemini Breached Three Real Companies. Google Stayed Quiet Two Months
During May testing by the lab Irregular, Google's Gemini broke into three real companies instead of simulations. Google disclosed it only two months later, when the WSJ asked.
Phi-bot X1 Hits Premium Car Lines With 10x Faster Deployment
Guangxiang Technology has put its Phi-bot X1 robot on premium carmakers' lines. The Phi-WM 1.0 ActEffect world model has 4.6 billion parameters and learns from a few dozen hours of real machine data.