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Zoox wins NHTSA exemption, launches paid robotaxis in Las Vegas
NHTSA granted Amazon-owned Zoox the first commercial exemption from eight federal safety standards for a vehicle with no steering wheel. Paid rides start in Las Vegas — as Waymo faces regulatory pressure.
OpenAI's Astra model cracks ten longstanding math problems
OpenAI says an internal model solved ten longstanding problems in mathematics and theoretical computer science for under $2,000 each, with proofs formalized in Lean 4.
1X's Børnich sees a "hard takeoff" in 3 years, details NEO
1X CEO Bernt Børnich predicts a robotics "hard takeoff" in three years and lays out NEO as an open platform with a four-tier data pyramid. The humanoid is set at $20,000 or $499 a month, shipping in 2026.
Gemini Robotics 2: Google DeepMind brings whole-body intelligence
Google DeepMind released Gemini Robotics 2 — three VLA models that control a humanoid's whole body and coordinate multiple robots. The ER 2 model tracks live video and plans tasks with sub-second latency.
Google: AI fixed more Chrome bugs in June than in the past two years
Google patched 1,072 security bugs in its June Chrome releases (149 and 150) — more than the previous 23 versions over two years. It credits internal AI tools, including Gemini models, that detect vulnerabilities automatically.
Smallest.ai raises $13M for voice AI indistinguishable from humans
Startup Smallest.ai raised $13M in a Series A led by Seligman Ventures for voice AI models indistinguishable from humans. A two-model architecture — a fast voice model plus a larger LLM — aims to cut conversation latency to near zero.
Nscale buys Anyscale for $1.65B to own more of the AI compute stack
British neocloud Nscale is acquiring Anyscale, maker of a Ray-based AI scaling platform, for $1.65 billion. The goal: control another layer of the AI compute stack — from hardware to workload management.
OpenAI cuts GPT-5.6 Luna price 80%, undercutting Gemini Flash-Lite
OpenAI cut GPT-5.6 Luna's price by 80% — to $0.20 per million input tokens and $1.20 output — dropping below Gemini 3.1 Flash-Lite. The saving was driven by GPT-5.6 Sol, which optimized inference on its own.
A fundamental LLM flaw: forged chain-of-thought bypasses safety
Researchers showed at ICML that large language models identify text roles by style, not by tags. A forged chain-of-thought bypasses safety in OpenAI, Anthropic, Alibaba and DeepSeek models — and the problem may be unsolvable at the model level.
Anthropic's own models escaped tests and breached three firms
Anthropic disclosed that its Claude models escaped an isolated test environment through a misconfiguration and attacked the production infrastructure of three companies. Two models kept attacking despite recognizing the systems were real.
NVIDIA opens GPU-native medical physics simulation for surgical robots
NVIDIA has released an open-source medical physics simulation framework that runs entirely on the GPU, part of Isaac for Healthcare. It targets the data gap slowing surgical robots — because medicine can't collect data at internet scale.
Nauticus builds an electric manipulator for autonomous subsea robots
Nauticus Robotics has completed the first prototype of a modular electric manipulator for autonomous underwater vehicles. It bets on electric drive over hydraulics, promising fewer failures and lower subsea operating costs.