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LiberAI Unveils Liber-0, a World Action Model Trained on 2.2 Million Hours of Human Experience — Nov 5, 2026 — Beijing startup LiberAI launched Liber-0, a world action model trained on human video and glove-tracked motion data that performs new robot tasks with...MicroVision Expands FieldAI Lidar Deal to Cover Ground Robots and Drones — Nov 3, 2026 — FieldAI has purchased MicroVision's MOVIA lidar sensors for government and industrial robotics programs, widening a testing partnership across ground...Google and NASA Are Building an AI Robot to Help Astronauts on the Way to Mars — Nov 2, 2026 — Google Public Sector and NASA are testing a voice-controlled assistant robot that can fetch medical equipment and monitor astronaut health during miss...VicOne Finds 28 Zero-Day Flaws in Robot AI Tools From Google, Nvidia and Meta in Under 48 Hours — Nov 2, 2026 — Cybersecurity firm VicOne used AI-assisted research to uncover 28 previously unknown vulnerabilities in software that trains and runs robots, includin...Lightberry Becomes the First Humanoid Robot Maker Cleared by the US Government — Nov 1, 2026 — Lightberry's Lumi became the first humanoid robot approved by the Department of War for exemption from the FCC's import ban, clearing a path for its $...NYC Council Rolls Out 10-Bill AI Package With Kill Switches And Whistleblower Bounties — Sep 27, 2026 — Speaker Julie Menin unveiled a 10-bill package on 25 September that would force AI companies operating in New York City to install kill switches, subm...White House Asks OpenAI And Anthropic To Hold Back Models From UK AISI — Sep 26, 2026 — The White House has asked OpenAI and Anthropic to delay giving the UK AI Security Institute pre-release access to two new frontier models until a US s...Google Rolls Out Gemini Call For Me To Pixel 11 In The US — Sep 26, 2026 — Gemini's new Call for Me feature books tables, navigates phone menus and handles hold times for Pixel 11 owners on a paid Gemini plan.Google Launches First TPU Satellites To Orbit On SpaceX Transporter-18 — Sep 24, 2026 — Google's Project Suncatcher will loft four Trillium TPUs aboard SpaceX's Transporter-18 rideshare on Oct 1, testing the case for orbital AI data cente...Google's Intrinsic Open-Sources Core Robotics Stack Under Apache 2.0 — Sep 24, 2026 — Intrinsic has released Intrinsic Core, a ROS-compatible open-source robotics software suite covering motion planning, grasping, calibration and simula...Newsom Orders California AI Kill Switch In New Frontier-Model Oversight EO — Sep 24, 2026 — Executive Order N-9-26 tells California agencies to build an emergency shutdown for frontier AI models and embed independent auditors inside developer...Google Opens $899 Googlebook Preorders With Gemini Built Into Every OEM — Sep 23, 2026 — Googlebook launches as a new Aluminium OS laptop category with Gemini baked in, from $899 and shipped by Acer, ASUS, Dell, HP and Lenovo. U.S. retail...Google CC Becomes A Family AI Agent For Up To Six Members — Sep 21, 2026 — Google Labs has expanded CC, its experimental AI companion, into a household agent that coordinates shared calendars, tasks, meal plans and paperwork...Zipline In Talks For $1B Round At $20B As Part 108 Rule Sits Idle — Sep 20, 2026 — Instant-logistics operator Zipline is reportedly negotiating a $1 billion raise that would nearly triple its valuation to $20 billion, even as the FAA...GlobalFoundries And Marvell Expand SiGe Deal For AI Data Center Optics — Sep 19, 2026 — GlobalFoundries and Marvell Technology are expanding their multi-year silicon germanium agreement, adding fresh SiGe capacity at GF's Burlington, Verm...Salesforce Launches AIforce at Dreamforce, Piping CRM Into Claude, Slack and AWS — Sep 18, 2026 — Salesforce used Dreamforce 2026 to unveil AIforce, an interface layer that lets Anthropic's Claude, Slack, AWS and other agents work directly on Sales...Google Home Opens To Claude And Other AI Agents Via MCP Early Access — Sep 17, 2026 — Google Home Premium Advanced adds Model Context Protocol early access, letting Claude, Google Antigravity, OpenClaw and Hermes agents monitor and cont...Cohere's Model Vault Now Encrypts AI Inference So Even Cohere Can't See It — Sep 17, 2026 — Cohere adds confidential computing to Model Vault, sealing enterprise AI inference inside NVIDIA-Intel-AMD trusted execution enclaves so neither Coher...Google, NVIDIA And Anthropic Join Emerald AI's Grid-Flex Alliance For Data Centers — Sep 17, 2026 — The new AI Energy Management Alliance pairs Emerald AI, Google, NVIDIA and Anthropic with major US utilities to make AI data centers act as flexible l...Google Ships Gemini 3.8 Live As Its First Reasoning Voice Model For Gmail, Docs And Search — Sep 17, 2026 — Google DeepMind released Gemini 3.8 Live and Gemini 3.8 Live Extended Thinking on September 15, ranking #1 on the Artificial Analysis Speech-to-Speech...