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The TactaBot pairs a 15-joint robotic hand with a wearable glove that lets factory workers train the AI simply by doing the task themselves, no coding or teleoperation required. Deployment with manufacturers starts in early 2027.
The coalition of dozens of companies will share open AI models and tools for cyber defense, arriving days after an OpenAI agent breached Hugging Face's systems in what OpenAI called an unprecedented incident.
The device, codenamed N50, was originally targeted for late 2026 or early 2027. Apple is reportedly reworking its camera and AI privacy safeguards to differentiate the product from Meta's Ray-Ban glasses.
The world's fourth-largest DRAM maker raised $8.6 billion in Asia's biggest IPO of 2026, as markets bet heavily on China's push for semiconductor self-reliance.
Stripe is reportedly negotiating to buy OpenRouter, a two-year-old startup that routes developer requests across 400+ AI models, at nearly eight times the $1.3 billion valuation it raised at in May.
GitHub's Dependabot now waits 72 hours before adopting new package versions, and PyPI blocks new file uploads to releases older than 14 days — both measures aimed at the wave of malicious package attacks that hit npm and PyPI over the past year.
More than two dozen companies, including Nvidia, Microsoft, Meta, OpenAI, and Mistral, signed a letter warning lawmakers against 'premature restrictions' on open-weight AI models, as the White House weighs action against Chinese labs like Moonshot AI.
Roku has quietly increased prices across its entire US streaming lineup, with the Streaming Stick 4K jumping from $50 to $80. The company blames a global DRAM shortage driven by AI data center demand.
The Boston-based 1st US Circuit Court of Appeals declined to revive Trump's $100,000 fee on new H-1B visas, leaving a lower court's June ruling in place while the administration's appeal continues.
OpenAI's new Presence platform lets enterprises deploy managed AI agents for voice and chat, backed by policies, guardrails, and a Codex-powered improvement loop. It already resolves 75% of OpenAI's own customer support calls without human assistance.
The German AI lab behind the FLUX image generation architecture launched FLUX 3, a unified multimodal model that generates 20-second video clips with native audio from a single prompt. Limited early access is now open.
The European Commission sent TikTok preliminary findings on July 24 concluding that default settings on minors' public accounts expose their content too broadly, in violation of the Digital Services Act — a finding that could lead to a fine of up to 6% of TikTok's global turnover.