Mongolian State Medical University granted robotic surgery training right
Mongolian State Medical University received the right to provide international training in robotic surgery, per open.kg.
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Tuesday 13 October 2026
ZEST enables zero-shot embodied skill transfer for athletic robots
A Science paper presents ZEST, a method for zero-shot embodied skill transfer that lets athletic robots acquire and transfer control skills without task-specific training.
Industrial Next builds factory robots that switch tasks in minutes
Industrial Next helps manufacturers automate complex, delicate tasks that traditionally required human labor, letting robots change tasks in minutes rather than weeks.
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Suki lands $90M for healthcare AI
Healthcare AI company Suki raised $90M, according to Modern Healthcare's AI Tracker.
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Wisconsin students launch humanoid robotics organization
Motivated engineering students at the University of Wisconsin-Madison formed the Wisconsin Humanoid Robotics org to build humanoid robots, per the College of Engineering.
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Cerebras CEO pushes back on AI doomsday warnings
Cerebras CEO Andrew Feldman at TechCrunch Disrupt said AI leaders' doomsday warnings drown out the technology's benefits, and predicted everyone will have a personal AI assistant at home. Digitimes separately covered his comments on capacity shortfalls behind OpenAI's turn to Nvidia GPUs; AWS and Nvidia launched an open-source Physical AI Toolchain for industrial robotics.
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Salesforce makes $3.6B play for AI customer service
Salesforce is making a $3.6B move into AI customer service, according to TechRepublic.
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Anthropic asks appeals court to rehear Pentagon blacklisting case
Anthropic urged the DC federal appeals court to revisit its 2-1 ruling upholding the Trump administration's designation of the company as a supply-chain risk.
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Vista Equity CEO Smith discusses AI and agentic software growth
Robert F. Smith, Vista Equity Partners founder and CEO, talks about AI growth, agentic software and learning to use AI agents, in a Bloomberg interview.
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Reddit user shares first 3D-printed robotic arm build
A Reddit user posted their first 3D-printed robotic arm project in r/robotics. The post shares the build but no technical specs, code or files.
NVIDIA posts ML operator lexicon for PDE solvers
NVIDIA published a machine learning operator lexicon for partial differential equation solvers on irregular and sparse domains, cataloguing operators used in scientific ML.
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Visual Studio Code 1.141.1, Cursor, Zed, Warp, Kiro, Trae updated
New releases: Visual Studio Code 1.141.1, an open-source code editor for macOS, Windows and Linux; plus Cursor 3.24.18, Zed 1.23.3, Warp 0.2026.09.30.08.29.stable_01, Kiro 1.3.0 and Trae 2.3.61406.
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Bloomberg: China leads race in robotic hands for $5T humanoid market
Bloomberg reports China has an early lead over the US in advanced humanoid hardware, especially dexterous robotic hands, in a market projected to reach $5 trillion. IDC ranks Booster Robotics in the global top three for humanoid shipments.
JPMorgan blocks outside AI agents from client accounts
JPMorgan CFO Jeremy Barnum said the bank closely tracks its AI exposure and will not let external AI agents directly access customer accounts, as AI capex demands grow.
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The Information explores rebuilding companies for the agentic era
The Information's Amir Efrati discussed with leaders what a company should look like when AI can understand context, coordinate work and act across systems.
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Grok cases highlight AI risks under Illinois privacy law
Reuters reports Grok-related cases show how Illinois biometric privacy law can expose AI companies to liability, as courts weigh how facial and voice data rules apply to model training.
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OpenAI diverts compute to safety before next flagship
OpenAI reportedly diverted 10% of compute to safety and canceled a weaker model over concerns about its loop transformer architecture, which is harder to monitor. Launch may be delayed.
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Physical Intelligence opens API beta for robot models
Physical Intelligence launched an API beta it calls frontier models for every robot, letting developers access its general robot foundation models remotely. Pricing and availability details were not in the source text.
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PYMNTS: 61 million shoppers start product search with AI
An October PYMNTS Intelligence report, 'From Prompt to Purchase: Who Wins the AI Shopper?', says consumers are rapidly adopting AI tools for product research, a commercial opportunity for merchants.
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Michael Dell says AI needs safeguards and government role
Dell CEO Michael Dell said AI models need safeguards and controls, with both companies and government playing a role in ensuring safety. No specific policy or product was announced.
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GitHub Copilot CLI 1.0.97 and 1.0.98 released
GitHub Copilot CLI brings the Copilot coding agent to the terminal. Versions 1.0.97 and 1.0.98 are installable via npm i -g @github/copilot.
Version 1.0.97 · CLI (npm)
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AI tools uncover crypto flaws that could mint trillions
AI tools surfaced cryptographic vulnerabilities in XRP and ZEC that researchers say could have allowed trillions in unauthorized token minting.
Krafton to unveil socially intelligent robot AI in early 2027
Krafton plans to unveil a 'socially intelligent' robot AI that reads human intent in early 2027.
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Reports question whether AI spending delivers measurable returns
The Information and The Register examine why companies struggle to prove AI spending pays off, as infrastructure spending forecasts outstrip expected revenue.
More: The Register
Claude for iPhone 1.261012.20 released
Anthropic updates its Claude iOS app with bug fixes and overall experience improvements.
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German robotics software startup pitches AI for retail returns sorting
Returns need items picked, identified and sorted before resale; CEO Ralf Gulde says systems must handle unseen articles, unlike prior automation.
Aziib Pixel Style LoRA released for Krea2 and Anima
A pixel-art LoRA for image models Krea2 and Anima, downloadable from Civitai with the trigger word 'aziib pixel style'.
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Censys data: publicly exposed AI infrastructure up 63% in nine months
New Censys data shared with Axios shows AI-related infrastructure exposed to the public internet jumped 63% in nine months, creating new security risks.
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Ramp offers in-house AI tool Glass to other companies
After a week in May when Ramp burned $1.5M on AI spending, the spend-management firm built Glass and will now offer it externally, per co-CEO Eric Glyman.
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AnyPS5 project claims 100% PS5 GPU shader instruction coverage
AnyPS5 is an open-source compatibility layer aiming to run PlayStation 5 games natively on Windows and Linux. It now reports all 1,166 tracked AMD RDNA 1 and RDNA 2 shader instructions implemented, reaching 100% GPU shader instruction coverage.
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Ripple and Privy add AI payments and wallets to XRP Ledger
Ripple taps Stripe-owned Privy to embed wallets on the XRP Ledger, letting AI agents hold wallets and auto-pay; AI payments on XRPL top 13 million.
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OpenAI rolls out ChatGPT ads updates and account managers
OpenAI is rolling out major advertising and targeting updates in ChatGPT and assigning account manager representatives, per MediaPost and Search Engine Roundtable. Details on formats and pricing are limited.
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More: Search Engine Roundtable
Grok for iPhone 1.4.53 released
xAI updates its Grok iOS app with improvements to Chat, Voice and Imagine.
Version 1.4.53 · iPhone / iPad
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Microsoft Copilot for iPhone 2.115 released
Microsoft ships general quality and performance enhancements to its work-focused Copilot iOS app.
Version 2.115 · iPhone / iPad
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Nvidia reportedly halts RTX 5090 production as GPU prices spike
Reports say Nvidia halted RTX 5090 production, while Japanese retail prices for RTX 50-series cards jump up to 144%, with the RTX 5080 passing $2,400.
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OpenAI employee arrested for allegedly bugging San Francisco office
An OpenAI employee was arrested and charged with using a hidden recording device in the company's San Francisco office, per OpenAI and the US Justice Department.
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AI agents decompile games into compilable C
An AI agent project decomp.wtf runs locally to decompile games you own into C that compiles to identical bytes. Developer Popcar describes a wave of AI decompilation enabling mashups and preservation projects.
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Applied Intuition fields offers at $30B valuation
The autonomous-vehicle software firm is drawing offers at a $30 billion valuation as AI application startups reach higher prices.
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Meta AI for iPhone 294.1.0 released with scheduled tasks
Meta's assistant app adds daily briefings, reminders, email and calendar connections, and in-depth research reports.
Version 294.1.0 · iPhone / iPad
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World Bank jobs council urges support as IMF warns of AI shock
The World Bank's jobs council called for crisis-era employment support, while IMF chief Kristalina Georgieva said AI is hitting labor markets like a slow-moving tsunami, with young workers most exposed.