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  5. Rohan PaulOpinion
    AI score55

    Anthropic's personnel spending rose 486% to $3.152 billion, growing faster than compute

    Anthropic's personnel spending rose 486% year over year to $3.152 billion, exceeding the 283% increase in compute spending, with personnel spending per $1 of compute rising from $0.23 to $0.35. Stock-based compensation increased from $286 million to $2.2 billion, accounting for about 70% of personnel spending; excluding stock-based payments, personnel costs grew about 3.8 times, close to the growth rate of compute. Revenue grew 14-fold to $16.286 billion over the same period, and rolling revenue per employee rose from $1.4 million to more than $6.6 million.

    #Industry news#Anthropic#English text is being prepared.

  6. Aravind SrinivasModel releases
    AI score55

    Perplexity CEO Shares Early Evaluation of Gemini 4 Carbon: WANDR Benchmark Sets New SoTA

    Perplexity CEO Aravind Srinivas shares an early evaluation of Gemini 4 Carbon, calling it the strongest model to date in long-form research and answer quality, and noting that it achieves a new SoTA on the Wide-And-Deep-Research (WANDR) benchmark. The model will be made available to all Perplexity Pro and Max users once token capacity is sufficient, integrated into Computer.

    #Evaluations / benchmarks#Reasoning#Google

  7. Arena
    AI score20

    Arena Academic Partnerships Program proposals due tonight

    The Fall 2026 cycle of Arena's Academic Partnerships Program closes tonight at midnight. The program is open to tenure-track faculty researchers at U.S. universities, with funding of up to $50,000 per project, for research on the scientific foundations of AI evaluation, including evaluation and ranking methodology, measurement and validity, learning from human preference, and safety and alignment.

    Quoted postArena.ai · @arena

    Reminder: the Fall 2026 cycle of Arena's Academic Partnerships Program has begun! We're accepting new proposals from tenure-track faculty at U.S. universities working on the scientific foundations of AI evaluation: evaluation and ranking methodology, measurement and validity, learning from human preference, and safety and alignment. Funding of up to $50,000 per project is available. The Fall 2026 deadline to submit is October 30, 2026. Learn more about the program in thread 👇

    #Industry news#Safety / alignment

  8. Ars Technica
    AI score39

    DoorDash: External AI agents have so far brought only a few hundred orders

    DoorDash CEO Tony Xu said on the third-quarter earnings call that external AI agents have generated only a few hundred orders on DoorDash since launching, while the platform's total orders in the third quarter of 2026 approached 1 billion. Xu believes AI agents are better suited to "large purchases that require a long time to consider," while for simple tasks like ordering food, users will still open DoorDash directly.

    Same story · 2 reports

    #Industry news#Agents

  9. The DecoderResearch
    AI score66

    Claude Sonnet 5 Autonomously Selects Gene Therapy and Completes Mouse Brain Surgery

    The research team had Claude Sonnet 5 autonomously select a gene therapy, brain region, and injection coordinates in an epilepsy mouse model, and operate custom surgical equipment to complete the injection, with a licensed veterinarian approving the irreversible steps throughout. The agent selected one of 19 candidate therapies—a regimen that enhances inhibitory signaling pathways—cross-checked three papers and took the average to determine the injection coordinates, and made 32 observations via camera during the procedure. After a mid-procedure connection loss, it judged that the target location exceeded the device's range of motion and refused to continue; this judgment was later proven correct, and the team ultimately had to manually modify the code to proceed; the more capable Claude Opus 5.5 and Opus 5 refused to perform the surgery. Ocana-Santero said there was no prior precedent of an agent autonomously selecting a treatment and brain target and carrying it out in a living mammal; the mouse recovered well, the technical report has not yet been released, and the results have not been peer-reviewed.

    Same story · 3 reports

    #Papers/Research#Agents#Safety / alignment

  10. The Verge AI
    AI score62

    OpenAI, Google, Microsoft, and Anthropic will adopt a unified AI crawling opt-out standard

    OpenAI, Google, Microsoft, and Anthropic said they will adopt a new standard that lets publishers express their opt-out preferences to multiple AI companies at once. The shared policy token signal was proposed at the IETF by Kevin Kelley, Anthropic's standards technical lead, and will be written into websites' robots.txt files; currently, websites must set preferences separately for each AI company. Anthropic has already adopted the signal, Google and Microsoft plan to support it next year, and OpenAI says it will implement it within the next few months; Microsoft will also offer more granular controls, allowing publishers to opt out of AI training or AI grounding separately, while their sites will still appear in Bing search results.

    Same story · 4 reports

    #English text is being prepared.#English text is being prepared.#OpenAI

  11. Robotics & Automation News
    AI score28

    Humanoid expands partnership with Nvidia to provide computing foundation for next-generation humanoid robots

    UK AI and robotics company Humanoid has expanded its partnership with Nvidia to jointly develop a high-performance robot edge runtime for next-generation humanoid robots. Humanoid will integrate Nvidia Jetson Thor, Isaac OS, Holoscan Sensor Bridge and Holoscan SDK, consolidating two onboard computers into a single system while maintaining computing power and reducing data movement and latency. Isaac OS provides a GPU-native runtime, and Multi-Gigabit Ethernet can deliver up to 100Gb bandwidth.

    #Industry news#Embodied AI#English text is being prepared.

  12. Robotics & Automation News
    AI score46

    Europe's autonomous driving market speeds up: Bolt plans to start robotaxi data collection in Madrid in 2027

    Bolt plans to begin collecting real-world road driving data in Madrid in 2027 (pending regulatory approval), preparing for the deployment of at least 25,000 level 4-capable Lucid vehicles in Europe, with Germany among the priority markets. The project uses the Nvidia Hyperion computing platform and Alpamayo autonomous driving software; Volkswagen Commercial Vehicles, Mercedes-Benz, Volvo Cars, Einride and others also announced autonomous driving projects based on the same architecture at GTC Berlin. Nvidia also launched the Halos SAFE safety validation framework.

    #Industry news#Embodied AI#English text is being prepared.

  13. Robotics & Automation News
    AI score28

    AstraQua Wins $1.27 Million NASA Contract to Advance AstraSense Physical AI Aviation Applications

    AstraQua has been awarded a $1,274,990 Phase II contract from NASA to advance its AstraSense technology for electric and hybrid-electric aircraft, including advanced air mobility. Powered by Agentic Physical AI and the Adaptive Quorum Foundation Model, AstraSense provides predictive health and operational self-awareness, has already run on robotic hardware, and in Phase I demonstrated real-time diagnostic capabilities to NASA. Phase II will advance aircraft integration and health-aware reasoning, and conduct verification and validation for safety-critical scenarios.

    #Industry news#Embodied AI#Agents

  14. Robotics & Automation News
    AI score33

    Schaeffler and Wandelbots Reach Technical Cooperation to Jointly Develop the NOVA Robot Platform

    Schaeffler has established a technical cooperation with Wandelbots, a German robotics and physical AI company, focusing on developing the Wandelbots NOVA open platform to advance the application of AI in industrial and humanoid robots. The platform will in the future cover Schaeffler's global factories and is expected to reduce the total lifecycle cost of automation solutions by up to 40%. The platform will use Nvidia Omniverse and Isaac Sim for virtual testing and will accumulate applications, models and technical knowledge through a skills store.

    #Industry news#Embodied AI#English text is being prepared.

  15. Unite.AI
    AI score62

    Google Project Suncatcher prototype satellite's on-orbit TPU returns a haiku generated by Gemma 4 for the first time

    On October 30, Google said that the Gemma 4 open model running on the on-orbit TPU of the Project Suncatcher prototype satellite returned its first AI response, a haiku about being in space, and the team subsequently tested a space-themed limerick and telemetry prompts reporting payload status. The satellite was launched on October 1 on the SpaceX Transporter-18 rideshare mission, was built by Google in collaboration with Planet, and the mission goal is to collect on-orbit data on the TPU's performance under the physical stresses of spaceflight as well as radiation and extreme temperatures. Google plans to launch two interconnected satellites in 2027 to test inter-satellite laser links.

    Same story · 7 reports

    #Industry news#Google#English text is being prepared.

  16. Unite.AI
    AI score62

    OpenAI announces it will honor the shared robots.txt signal to express AI training preferences

    On October 30, 2026, OpenAI announced that it will honor the shared signal in robots.txt, allowing website operators to express the same AI training preference to multiple participating vendors at once, with implementation planned over the coming months. The signal is defined in an Internet-Draft submitted by Anthropic's Kevin Kelley; it uses the __usage_ai-training policy token bound to paths, adds no new directive names or syntax, and follows the parsing rules of RFC 9309. OpenAI stated that existing controls such as GPTBot and OAI-SearchBot remain in effect, and encouraged other AI vendors to honor the signal as well.

    Same story · 4 reports

    #English text is being prepared.#English text is being prepared.#OpenAI

  17. SiliconANGLEModel releases
    AI score55

    Krafton's Ludo Robotics Releases Robot Intelligence Model Ludi 0.2

    Krafton subsidiary Ludo Robotics has released the robot AI system Ludi 0.2, which builds on Ludi 0.1 launched in August with enhanced social intelligence, memory and reasoning, tool coordination, gesture interpretation, and physical mobility capabilities. The system combines the reasoning and dialogue capabilities of vision-language models with navigation and manipulation abilities, with the goal of enabling robots to understand human intent, respond to feedback, and adapt to changing situations. The company says it is advancing toward a final version that integrates perception, dialogue, and physical actions into a single "brain."

    #Model releases#Embodied AI#Multimodal

  18. SiliconANGLE
    AI score40

    Extreme Networks wants networks to run AI, not just be managed by AI

    At the AI Summit in Amsterdam, Extreme Networks released first-month data for Agent ONE Coworker: customers saved about 1,000 hours of troubleshooting time, 41% of Platform ONE customers used it for daily tasks, and 98% of critical nudges received a response. The company also previewed Exchange zones, planned for launch in the first half of 2027, which will use the idle compute of access points and switches to run open-source model AI applications locally; the Operator autonomous mode will launch at the same time.

    #Product updates#Agents#English text is being prepared.

  19. Thurrott
    AI score18

    Ask Paul: October 30

    In the October 30 Ask Paul Q&A, Paul Thurrott responded to questions about the accounting practices behind Microsoft's AI investments, arguing that Microsoft and other hyperscalers will not be able to recoup their AI investments, and predicting a reckoning similar to the 2008 financial crisis or the dot-com bubble. He also mentioned the newly founded ndoc.ai, and said office productivity is beginning to see major changes.

    #Industry news#Microsoft#OpenAI

  20. 9to5Mac
    AI score16

    SwitchBot K11+ Pro review: compact body, 12000Pa suction, and Apple Home support

    The SwitchBot K11+ Pro is a small robot vacuum with a 9.76-inch diameter and 3.62-inch height, offering up to 12000Pa of suction—twice that of the original K11+—and supports Matter over Wi-Fi for direct connection to Apple Home, allowing zone cleaning to be started via Siri. It uses LiDAR navigation, can store 5 maps, has a base station measuring approximately 9.4×7.1 inches, and its dust bag can last up to 3 months. It is now on sale at Amazon and the SwitchBot official website.

    #English text is being prepared.