
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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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.

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.

Three new papers: AlphaLab runs autonomous GPU research campaigns, open-weight reasoning models collapse under text reformatting, and HiL-Bench reveals agents can't decide when to ask for help.

UC Berkeley researchers achieved near-perfect scores on eight major AI agent benchmarks without solving a single task, exposing systemic flaws in how the industry measures progress.

xAI's Grok 4.20 replaces the single-model approach with four specialized agents that debate before every answer - a bold architectural bet that pays off in some areas and stumbles in others.

Cloudflare Sandboxes are now generally available, giving AI agents persistent isolated environments with shell access, filesystem, PTY terminals, and background processes that start on demand and sleep when idle.

Six million fake stars, $0.06 per click, and a VC funding pipeline that treats GitHub popularity as proof of traction. We ran our own analysis on 20 repos and found the fingerprints.

A 19-person Meta AI and KAUST team including Jürgen Schmidhuber proposes Neural Computers - systems where the neural network itself is the running computer, trained solely on screen recordings.

Arcee AI ships Trinity-Large-Thinking, a 398B sparse MoE reasoning model under Apache 2.0 that hits 91.9% on PinchBench for $0.85 per million output tokens on OpenRouter.

Shopify's free, MIT-licensed AI Toolkit connects Claude Code, Cursor, and Gemini CLI directly to live store data, giving agents real-time access to API schemas, documentation, and store execution.

Microsoft released the Agent Governance Toolkit, a seven-package open-source system that enforces policies on autonomous AI agents at sub-millisecond latency and covers all 10 OWASP agentic risks.

Researchers from Google DeepMind, Microsoft, and Columbia propose financial guardrails for AI agents, with simulations showing up to 61% reduction in user losses.