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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...Discovered Materials Raises $9M Seed To Aim AI Agent Swarms At Cooler AI Chips — Sep 26, 2026 — YC-backed Discovered Materials pulled in $9M led by Lightspeed India to run swarms of AI research agents 24/7 in search of cooler substrate materials...OpenAI, Anthropic And DeepMind Push FINRA-Style AI Safety Body — Sep 19, 2026 — Three of the top frontier AI labs are quietly building an industry-run standards body modelled on Wall Street's FINRA, and Cohere's CEO is calling it...Emulate Nears $700M Seed At $3.7B To Build AI World Models — Sep 19, 2026 — British DeepMind spinout Emulate is in advanced talks to raise up to $700 million at a $3.7 billion post-money valuation, in a seed round jointly led...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...Google DeepMind Ships AlphaGenome Atlas — All 9 Billion Human DNA Variants, Precomputed — Sep 10, 2026 — On September 8, 2026 Google DeepMind released AlphaGenome Atlas, a 1-petabyte free resource that precomputes AlphaGenome's molecular-effect prediction...Google DeepMind Debuts WeatherNext 3 With Hourly, 5-km Global Forecasts — Sep 6, 2026 — WeatherNext 3 is Google's first hourly global AI weather model, drawing on live geostationary satellite data to sharpen rain predictions by up to 60%.IFM Ships K2 Horizon, A Six-Model Fully Open-Source Frontier AI Fleet From MBZUAI — Sep 5, 2026 — Abu Dhabi's Institute of Foundation Models released K2 Horizon: six frontier-grade LLMs from 0.9B to 375B parameters with fully open weights, code and...Google DeepMind Ships Gemini Robotics ER 2 With Multi-Robot Orchestration — Sep 4, 2026 — Google DeepMind released Gemini Robotics ER 2, its embodied-reasoning brain that coordinates multiple robots, tracks task success and beats Opus 5, GP...Google Research Unveils 'Nested Learning' To Beat Catastrophic Forgetting — Aug 30, 2026 — Google Research introduced Nested Learning, a new machine-learning paradigm that treats a model as a hierarchy of nested optimization problems, and a...Anthropic Builds In-House Silicon Team to Co-Design Chips for Claude — Aug 6, 2026 — Anthropic confirmed on August 5, 2026 that it is hiring a custom silicon team to co-design AI chips and models for Claude, joining OpenAI, Google and...Demis Hassabis Steps Aside as DeepMind CEO to Chase AGI as Alphabet Chief Scientist — Aug 6, 2026 — Demis Hassabis is handing day-to-day control of Google DeepMind to Koray Kavukcuoglu and becoming Alphabet’s chief scientist, while veterans Jeff Dean...Reimagine Robotics Exits Stealth With Pre-Seed To Let Workers Train Robots On The Floor — Aug 3, 2026 — Ex-Google DeepMind Applied Robotics leaders come out of stealth with a pre-seed round from Fly Ventures and firstminute capital, deploying industrial...Google DeepMind Ships Gemini Robotics 2 With Whole-Body Humanoid Control — Jul 30, 2026 — Google DeepMind's Gemini Robotics 2 gives humanoid robots feet-to-fingertip control and multi-robot teamwork, debuting on Apptronik's Apollo 2 and Fra...Hyundai's Chung Vows Open Robot Reference Platform With NVIDIA At SF AI Summit — Jul 27, 2026 — Executive Chair Euisun Chung unveiled Hyundai's Physical AI roadmap in San Francisco, headlined by an open Robot Reference Platform co-built with NVID...Samsung Launches RX Humanoid Robotics Division Under CEO TM Roh — Jul 25, 2026 — Samsung Electronics officially launched its Robotics eXperience (RX) division on July 21, backing it with the factory-tested Shallow-π VLA model and a...Google Ships Gemini 3.6 Flash, 3.5 Flash-Lite and 3.5 Flash Cyber — Jul 22, 2026 — Google's Gemini 3.6 Flash lands with 17% fewer output tokens and higher coding scores, alongside 3.5 Flash-Lite at $0.30/$2.50 and a security-tuned 3....WAIC 2026 Opens in Shanghai With Xi Jinping, 300+ Product Debuts and a China-Led AI Governance Push — Jul 17, 2026 — The 2026 World Artificial Intelligence Conference opened in Shanghai on July 17 with Xi Jinping in attendance, 1,100+ exhibitors, 300 global product d...