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Robust.AI puts 24 Carter robots into O'Neill Logistics hubs
Robust.AI and O'Neill Logistics announced on July 28, 2026 the deployment of 24 Carter collaborative mobile robots across two distribution centers in Monroe, New Jersey and Savannah, Georgia. Go-live is set for Q4 2026 — with no fixed warehouse infrastructure required.
FCC puts Chinese humanoids on its banned-devices list
The U.S. FCC added foreign advanced robots — humanoids and quadrupeds — plus networked power inverters to its "Covered List," blocking new-model authorization for the U.S. market. Chinese makers, Unitree among them, are hit hardest.
Cyera to buy Oasis Security for $1B to secure AI agents
Cyera signed a letter of intent to acquire Oasis Security for about $1B. It answers the surge in AI agents whose actions and permissions must be governed like employee identities.
Fish Audio raises $52M seed for AI voice models
Palo Alto's Fish Audio raised a $52M seed round for voice generation and cloning models. The startup has over 8M users and $21M in annual recurring revenue, and open-sources part of its models.
Claude Mythos finds cryptographic weaknesses in HAWK and AES
Anthropic's Frontier Red Team used Claude Mythos Preview to find mathematical weaknesses in the post-quantum signature HAWK and a reduced-round AES. The model improved the best-known attacks in days, though no deployed system is affected.
Agency Tool Co. wants to make robot OTA updates painless
Former Scythe Robotics co-founders launched Agency Tool Co. and its first product, ATC Deploy — a platform for updating fleets of robots over the air on poor connectivity.
A tactile sensor that turns pressure into color — with no latency
A team from Queen Mary University of London and three Italian universities built a tactile sensor in which the material's color itself encodes contact force — at 100 µm resolution and with no computational latency.
UNSW's soft robotic heart — a testbed for cardiac devices
Engineers at UNSW Sydney built a soft robotic heart of silicone and hydraulic "muscles" that reproduces cardiac disease and lets researchers test catheters and devices without animal testing.
Google's AI search becomes the default, Similarweb data shows
Similarweb's "The 2026 Generative AI Landscape": Google AI Overviews now appear in 43% of searches (up from 15%), and AI Mode traffic grew from 126M to 279M visits. Search is turning into an assistant — at the cost of publisher traffic.
Recursive Superintelligence signs $410M AWS compute deal
Richard Socher's Recursive Superintelligence signed a multi-year $410M compute deal with Amazon Web Services — most of its $650M raise. The company builds self-improving AI systems, with first products due in October 2026.
Microsoft launches MAI-Cyber-1-Flash and Perception AI system
Microsoft unveiled MAI-Cyber-1-Flash — its first in-house cybersecurity AI model — and Perception, a red/blue/green agent system that automates finding and fixing vulnerabilities. The model ships now, with a public preview on November 3, 2026.
The LLM token relay market: how resellers sell cheap API access
An investigation maps the "relay market" — a gray zone where resellers, mostly in China, sell cheap access to LLM tokens from pooled API keys obtained via trials, stolen cards and chargebacks.