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Ars Technica 2 weeks ago 21 ● 2 sources
Tesla is trying to train its Optimus humanoid robots to replace workers, but complex robot hands and employee resistance are slowing scaling. Tesla stopped making the Model S and Model X at its Fremont factory in May 2026. That shift is intensifying internal pushback while Tesla works through multiple development complications to reach mass production.
Trending Topics 2 weeks ago 50 ● 8 sources
Tekever raised about €500 million in its Series D funding round at an estimated valuation of about €5.5 billion. The round is led by Baillie Gifford and UC Investments and is only the first close. Tekever says the new capital will fund international expansion, production scaling, more R&D, and additional defense-focused acquisitions.
The Verge 2 weeks ago 27 ● 2 sources
Tesla’s Optimus robot production is falling behind its target of making 20,000 robots per week. Last month, Tesla reportedly produced several hundred robots per week after repurposing its Model S and Model X lines for Optimus. The change is that new, high-precision assembly for much smaller parts is causing manufacturing snags that slow output.
TechCrunch 2 weeks ago 34 ● 2 sources
Waymo expanded its robotaxi service from 3 to 15 U.S. cities while rides increased, but its fleet deployment is heavily concentrated in California and Texas. It had 1,102 autonomous vehicles registered in Texas as of September 24, and its Texas fleet grew by 49% in the previous three weeks. The company is shifting more vehicles there, with the share of newly added Zeekr-based minivans (“Ojai”) rising toward about a third of the Texas fleet despite higher import tariffs.
skild.ai 2 weeks ago 28
Skild AI trained a humanoid-soccer control policy using self-play in simulation and then transferred it to a real robot for a match. The training involved 140 years of simulated play in NVIDIA Isaac Sim. This resulted in a successful simulation-to-humanoid transfer, with Skild extending the same self-play approach to additional real-world robotics tasks.
MarkTechPost 2 weeks ago 54
Black Forest Labs released FLUX 3 Action, a 7B open-weights world action model for robot control that predicts future video frames and the next action chunk from camera frames, robot state, and text instructions. It scored 42.92% task success on the RoboLab-120 leaderboard. The release adds deployable GPU-sized checkpoints (with specified memory/quantization options) plus training recipes, code integration for LeRobot, and a hybrid reasoner setup, shifting deployment options toward faster and smaller policy models.
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15 October 2026
Anthropic’s IPO momentum dominated today’s AI news, and the details read like a pitch built for CFOs, not just researchers. The company told investors its third-quarter revenue hit $16.8 billion, up about 46% quarter over quarter and nearly 50% in the story’s framing, putting it on a clear path toward public-market scrutiny. Crucially for the valuation talk, distillation—how labs compress and reuse model knowledge—contributed only 5% to 7% of revenue before being “cut back materially” in Q3, shifting the mix away from spending and dependencies that other labs leaned on. An early backer’s market-odds math expects shares priced around $1.8 trillion with a trading value of $2.3 to $2.4 trillion, even comparing that jump to SpaceX’s roughly $2.1 trillion opening-day market cap.
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