Gemini Robotics-ER 1.6 Can Now Read Analog Gauges
Google DeepMind's Gemini Robotics-ER 1.6 hits 93% accuracy reading industrial gauges via agentic vision, a 70-point jump over ER 1.5, and launches inside Boston Dynamics' Spot today.
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A Shoe Company Ditched Shoes for GPUs and Surged 373%
Allbirds sold its entire footwear business for $39 million - roughly 1% of its $4 billion peak valuation - and is rebranding as NewBird AI to buy GPUs and rent compute to AI developers. The stock quadrupled in a day.
The Left Hand Bans What the Right Hand Deploys
The Trump administration is simultaneously suing Anthropic in federal court over a supply chain risk designation and sending Treasury Secretary Bessent and Fed Chair Powell to convince Wall Street banks to use Anthropic's most powerful model.
Chrome Skills Turn Your Best Gemini Prompts Into One-Click Tools
Google is launching Skills in Chrome - save any Gemini prompt as a reusable one-click workflow that runs across tabs, with a prebuilt library and slash-command access.
Claude Code Desktop Gets a Ground-Up Rebuild for Parallel Work
Anthropic rebuilt Claude Code inside the desktop app with an integrated terminal, in-app file editing, a new diff viewer, side chats, SSH on Mac, and parallel session management - plus Routines for headless automation.
Alibaba's HappyHorse Claims Video AI Crown - No Weights Yet
HappyHorse-1.0 topped the Artificial Analysis Video Arena with a 52-Elo gap over Seedance 2.0 - but the 'open source' model has no public weights, no inference code, and no API.
Japan Forms $6B AI Alliance to Rival US and China
SoftBank, Sony, Honda, and NEC have formed Japan AI Foundation Model Development, backed by a $6.3 billion government commitment to build a trillion-parameter physical AI model on Japanese soil.
OpenAI Launches GPT-5.4-Cyber for Vetted Defenders Only
OpenAI's GPT-5.4-Cyber is a restricted model fine-tuned for defensive cybersecurity with binary reverse engineering and reduced refusal rates, available only through identity-verified access tiers - a direct response to Anthropic's Mythos Preview.
Opus 4.7 Reportedly Days Away as OpenAI Fires Back With GPT-5.4 Cyber
The Information reports Anthropic is prepping Claude Opus 4.7 and an AI design tool for imminent release, while OpenAI launched GPT-5.4-Cyber yesterday - a restricted cybersecurity model that directly challenges Claude Mythos.
Anthropic Safety Overseer Gets Board Majority at Last
Anthropic's Long-Term Benefit Trust appointed Novartis CEO Vas Narasimhan to the board, giving its independent safety overseers a board majority for the first time.
9 of 428 LLM Routers Were Secretly Hijacking Agent Calls
UC Santa Barbara researchers found 9 of 428 third-party LLM routers actively injecting malicious tool calls, draining crypto, and stealing AWS credentials from AI agent sessions.
NVIDIA Ising: Open AI for Quantum Error Correction
NVIDIA releases two open-source AI models for quantum hardware - a 35B vision-language model that cuts calibration time from days to hours, and CNN decoders that outpace the standard by 2.5x.
