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LiveKit Buys Loophole Labs To Wire Substrate Under Its AI Agents — Sep 25, 2026 — LiveKit is bringing the Substrate hypervisor and Architect Kubernetes team in-house to give voice, video and physical AI agents live-migration and spo...Black Forest Labs Open-Sources FLUX 3 Action, A 7B World-Action Model For Robots — Sep 24, 2026 — Black Forest Labs' first world-action model, FLUX 3 Action, scores 42.92% on RoboLab and 93.3% on a Franka arm — for $0.0018 per successful sample.Google Ships Gemini 3.8 Flash TTS, 2,000+ Voices And SynthID Watermarks — Sep 24, 2026 — Google's Gemini 3.8 Flash TTS ships 2,000+ voices, promptable voice design and SynthID watermarks; Flash-Lite drops price another 50%.NVIDIA Open-Sources Nemotron 3 Diarization, Sets New VoiceArena Speaker-ID Record — Sep 24, 2026 — NVIDIA's ~100M-parameter open-weight diarization model beats the previous state of the art by 24% on VoiceArena.Microsoft Open-Sources TauGrid, A Kubernetes Stack For GPU AI Workloads — Sep 21, 2026 — Microsoft's Azure Kubernetes Service team has open-sourced TauGrid — an MIT-licensed, cloud-native stack that folds Kueue, KubeRay and GPU health moni...Ex-Tsinghua Professor's Apex Intelligence Bags $50M Angel To Build Self-Evolving Models — Sep 17, 2026 — Apex Intelligence, founded by Tsinghua professor Yongchao Chen, closed nearly $50M in angel and angel+ funding from IDG Capital, XtalPi and Chinese st...Arcee AI Bags $150M Series B To Ship Its Open-Weight Trinity Models — Sep 17, 2026 — Arcee AI closed a $150M Series B at a $1.15B valuation to scale its Trinity open-weight foundation models and its DOE-backed Genesis-Science-1 project...NVIDIA opens CUDA-Q Logical for fault-tolerant quantum — Sep 16, 2026 — NVIDIA has extended its CUDA-Q platform with an open-source layer for fault-tolerant quantum computing, adopted at launch by Fermilab, IQM, Infleqtion...Anyon unveils open-source NVQLink quantum control plane — Sep 16, 2026 — Anyon Computing has released an open-source, real-time control system that treats QPUs, CPUs and GPUs as one supercomputer over NVIDIA's NVQLink fabri...InOrbit.AI Releases OpenRobOps, Industry's First ISO 21423 Fleet-Manager Reference Implementation — Sep 16, 2026 — InOrbit.AI has open-sourced OpenRobOps under Apache 2.0 as the industry's first reference implementation of ISO 21423, aimed at unlocking interoperabi...IBM And NASA Ship Open-Source Lunar Foundation Model For Ice, Craters And Landing Sites — Sep 10, 2026 — NASA and IBM open-source the Lunar Foundation Model, joining the Prithvi family on Hugging Face and outperforming baselines by up to 23% on ice, crate...DeepSeek Ships V4.1-Flash With 1M Context And 8x Smaller KV Cache — Sep 10, 2026 — DeepSeek releases V4.1-Flash under MIT with a 552B MoE backbone, 8B active parameters, FP4 KV cache and $0.15/M pricing that edges Opus 5 and GPT-5.6...DeepRobotics Open-Sources Its RL_Training Pipeline For Lite3, M20 And DR02 — Sep 9, 2026 — China's DEEP Robotics has released a complete IsaacLab-based reinforcement-learning training and deployment stack for its Lite3 and M20 quadrupeds and...Alibaba Cloud, Cambricon Join PyTorch Foundation As Ant Group Takes Gold Seat — Sep 8, 2026 — Alibaba Cloud and Cambricon joined the PyTorch Foundation as Platinum members and Ant Group as Gold, announced Sept. 8 at KubeCon + CloudNativeCon + O...HUMAIN Unveils humain-m3 Arabic Frontier Model Built On MiniMax M3 At LEAP 2026 — Sep 5, 2026 — PIF-backed HUMAIN launched humain-m3, a 428B Mixture-of-Experts Arabic language model post-trained on top of China's MiniMax M3, at LEAP 2026 in Riyad...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...Alibaba Ships Qwen3.8-Flash With 6B Active Params, Undercuts Rivals By 12x — Sep 1, 2026 — The 125B-parameter mixture-of-experts model activates just 6B per token, previews Qwen4 architecture and lists at $0.16 / $0.47 per million tokens.NVIDIA nears $12.9 billion Hugging Face acquisition — Aug 28, 2026 — NVIDIA is nearing a $12.9 billion deal to acquire Hugging Face, the leading platform for open-source AI models, in what would be one of the largest AI...Pollen Robotics Opens $399 Microduck Preorders To Bring Reinforcement Learning Home — Aug 27, 2026 — Hugging Face-owned Pollen Robotics opens preorders on August 27 for Microduck, a 25 cm open-source biped that walks, roller-skates and lets makers tra...TIER IV Joins Open Invention Network 2.0 To Shield Autoware From Patent Risk — Aug 22, 2026 — Japan's TIER IV, the pioneer behind the open-source Autoware stack for autonomous driving, has joined Open Invention Network 2.0, gaining a royalty-fr...