Top stories in robotics today:
- Agility Robotics set to go public at $2.5B
- Morgan Stanley doubles China’s humanoid forecast
- MIT solves tiny robots’ navigation problem
- Robot.com and Physical Intelligence’s new humanoid
- Quick hits on other robotics news
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- Top stories in AI today: - OpenAI designs its first custom AI chip - Anthropic, OpenAI join $500M plan to kill colds - Get World Cup ticket deals with AI price tracking - The Fable 5 comeback starts taking shape - 4 new AI tools, community workflows, and more
- Singapore-based startup Flint created a “paper battery” that is non-flammable even when cut or exposed to flame. The build uses Zinc with no lithium, cobalt, nickel, or PFAS, and rivals lithium-ion performance at 1.8x lower cost. The battery won Logitech's 2025 Future Positive
00:00 - More smoke accumulating on a Fable 5 return... - References to Fable usage reportedly spotted in Claude Code v2.1.190 update log (H/T @synthwavedd): Adding: "You've reached your Fable 5 limit". Removing: "purchased separately from your plan", potentially pointing at coming
- A spicy new (AI) chip has emerged. Jalapeño is OpenAI's first-gen, built-from-scratch chip for running LLMs, claiming performance per watt “substantially better than current state-of-the-art.” Built in just 9 months with Broadcom, with OpenAI’s own AI models helping design and
- Top stories in AI today: - Claude joins Slack as an agentic coworker - Meta doubles down on AI smart glasses - Build a Clippy-like desktop pet for Codex - Programming language for AI-driven biology - 4 new AI tools, community workflows, and more
- The Rundown AI repostedWild story on AI + diagnostics via the New York Times: In 2025, 45-year-old security guard showed up at a Queens ER, coughing up blood and struggling to breathe. Chest X-ray: clean. Electrocardiogram: abnormal, but nothing pointing to a diagnosis. They learned he'd recently
- Wild story on AI + diagnostics via the New York Times: In 2025, 45-year-old security guard showed up at a Queens ER, coughing up blood and struggling to breathe. Chest X-ray: clean. Electrocardiogram: abnormal, but nothing pointing to a diagnosis. They learned he'd recently
- Top stories in tech today: - Meta pauses employee tracking program after leak - Instagram wants to be your next streaming service - Microsoft locks in 20 years of gas power - Stanford finds the off switch for aging joints - Quick hits on other tech news
- Top stories in AI today: - Sakana’s orchestration model aims at the frontier - SpaceX leases Colossus compute to Reflection AI - Cut typing time in half with AI voice commands - Google bankrolls A24 to build AI filmmaker tools - 4 new AI tools, community workflows, and more
- SpaceX keeps cashing in on the AI compute crunch. The latest deal: renting Nvidia chips to Reflection AI on the Colossus 2 supercomputer. That's now the fourth name on the list: Anthropic: $1.25B/mo Google: $920M/mo Reflection: $150M/mo Cursor: bought outright for $60B
00:00 - Big release out of Japan’s Sakana AI. Its Fugu and Fugu Ultra models use agent orchestration of a variety of other models to reach Fable/Mythos levels on several benchmarks
Introducing Sakana Fugu: A full multi-agent orchestration system accessible via a single model API. Our ‘Fugu Ultra’ model matches the performance of Fable and Mythos, delivering frontier capability without the risk of export controls. Try it: sakana.ai/fugu 🐡
















