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MarkTechPost 2 weeks ago 5
Nebius opened applications for its 2026 Physical AI Awards, run with NVIDIA, to back startups with physical AI products and traction. The program offers five $150,000 compute-credit prizes per category, with applications closing on October 25, 2026. Winners receive the compute credits plus mentorship and promotion, with finalists and winners announced in mid-November 2026.
404 Media 2 weeks ago 44
DrivingBench hooked ChatGPT-style LLMs to a Toyota Corolla and tried to have them steer, accelerate, and brake through a cone course in a parking lot. GPT-6 Astra was the only model that eventually completed the course after extensive prompt changes and troubleshooting. The work became a proposed real-world driving benchmark for off-the-shelf frontier models, with results reported alongside the code and prompts.
Tech Funding News 2 weeks ago 28 ● 8 sources
AMD agreed to acquire World Labs through an all-stock deal. The transaction is valued at approximately $8.2 billion and is expected to close by the end of 2026, pending regulatory approvals. Fei-Fei Li will move into a new top AMD executive role while World Labs’ spatial-intelligence team continues to lead its work as AMD expands its Physical AI push.
Latent Space 2 weeks ago 30 ● 8 sources
AMD bought World Labs for $8.2B, and World Labs says its Atlas spatial-intelligence model predicts the next camera view from 2D images to address sparse reconstruction in multiview geometry. Atlas is presented as improving results versus specialized models and applying to robotics simulation, design/engineering, science, and real-world reconstruction. The acquisition and Atlas work together to expand AMD’s (through World Labs) capabilities for spatial intelligence and robotics-related use cases.
Fortune 36 ● 8 sources
AMD is acquiring World Labs, the two-year-old physical AI startup cofounded by Fei-Fei Li. The all-stock deal is valued at $8.2 billion. The acquisition will bring World Labs’ AI and world-model technology and team into AMD, with Li joining as executive VP and chief scientist and AMD expected to advance physical-AI hardware and compete more closely with Nvidia.
SiliconANGLE 2 weeks ago 31 ● 8 sources
AMD announced it plans to acquire World Labs by buying the world model developer in stock.
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15 October 2026
Anthropic used its pre-IPO moment to put hard numbers behind the AI business model: it reported $16.8 billion in Q3 revenue, up 45% sequentially, and said it reached adjusted profitability for the first time. That matters because it reframes what “scaling” looks like for the next wave of investors—less guesswork, more operating reality—at the same time the company is briefing markets ahead of an expected November listing.
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