Unitree Technology releases its new humanoid robot "H2-X Kung Fu Legend Guardian". Official video shows its maximum battery life is about 8 hours; it can lift the front of a car bare-handed, jump down from a 4-meter-high platform and roll to a stable stance, and kick a car door dented. The video also demonstrates scenes of pushing away a car about to hit a person and protecting its owner. Media infer that it targets fields such as emergency rescue and security protection.
In an October 22 research note, TS Lombard Chief Macro Strategist Dario Perkins projected that the AI capital expenditure boom could end in early 2028, with the S&P 500 falling 30%, tech stocks plunging 40%, and about $20 trillion in market value evaporating. The report argues that current AI revenue growth mainly comes from the capital expenditure cycle among tech giants and debt financing, and lists six chain-reaction triggers: revenue falling short of expectations, rising credit risk, depreciation pressure, an IPO wave, the semiconductor cycle, and regulatory and safety concerns. The report estimates that U.S. GDP would fall by about 2 percentage points and about 800,000 data center-related jobs would be lost, but private-sector balance sheets are healthy and the Federal Reserve has ample room to cut rates, making the recession closer to those of 1990 or 2001 than to 2008.
In an October 22 research note, TS Lombard Chief Macro Strategist Dario Perkins projected that the AI capital expenditure boom could end in early 2028, with the S&P 500 falling 30%, tech stocks plunging 40%, and about $20 trillion in market value evaporating. The report argues that current AI revenue growth mainly comes from the capital expenditure cycle among tech giants and debt financing, and lists six chain-reaction triggers: revenue falling short of expectations, rising credit risk, depreci
Microsoft announced the launch of its AI diagnostic system, Microsoft AI Diagnostic Orchestrator (MAI-DxO), which simulates a multidisciplinary expert consultation by orchestrating multiple AI agents. In an evaluation based on common cases from U.S. emergency departments using the MIMIC-IV-ED dataset, its diagnostic accuracy was 1.7 times that of human physicians; in a simulated evaluation based on complex cases from The New England Journal of Medicine, it achieved 83% accuracy, compared with 36% for primary care general practitioners and general internists who could independently consult reference materials, while specialists were not included in the comparison. Officials said the system's cost is only half or even one-third that of physicians, and the research findings have been published in the journal Science.
Microsoft announced the launch of its AI diagnostic system, Microsoft AI Diagnostic Orchestrator (MAI-DxO), which simulates a multidisciplinary expert consultation by orchestrating multiple AI agents. In an evaluation based on common cases from U.S. emergency departments using the MIMIC-IV-ED dataset, its diagnostic accuracy was 1.7 times that of human physicians; in a simulated evaluation based on complex cases from The New England Journal of Medicine, it achieved 83% accuracy, compared with 36
Microsoft announced the launch of the AI diagnostic system MAI-DxO (Microsoft AI Diagnostic Orchestrator), which simulates a multidisciplinary expert consultation of physicians by uniformly orchestrating multiple AI agents. In a simulated evaluation based on complex NEJM cases, its diagnostic accuracy reached 83%, compared with 36% for primary care general practitioners and general internists who could independently consult reference materials; in an evaluation of common U.S. emergency department visit cases based on the MIMIC-IV-ED dataset, its accuracy was 1.7 times that of human physicians. Officials said the system costs only half or even one-third of what physicians cost, and the research results have been published in the journal Science.
Microsoft announced the launch of the AI diagnostic system MAI-DxO (Microsoft AI Diagnostic Orchestrator), which simulates a multidisciplinary expert consultation of physicians by uniformly orchestrating multiple AI agents. In a simulated evaluation based on complex NEJM cases, its diagnostic accuracy reached 83%, compared with 36% for primary care general practitioners and general internists who could independently consult reference materials; in an evaluation of common U.S. emergency departmen
Colossal Biosciences founder Ben Lamm and Anduril founder Palmer Luckey have co-founded defense technology startup Warhound, emerging from stealth with a $200 million seed round. The CEO is former Pentagon Chief Data Officer David Spirk, and the company is based in Texas. Warhound plans to preserve genetic samples from fully trained military working dogs, clone them, and perform targeted gene editing, while integrating Anduril's protective gear and Eagle Eye system. Lamm said the first dogs are expected to be delivered in about two years. The company currently has no signed customers and has not disclosed per-dog pricing, and is discussing a Canine-as-a-Service model with national security experts.
Colossal Biosciences founder Ben Lamm and Anduril founder Palmer Luckey have co-founded defense technology startup Warhound, emerging from stealth with a $200 million seed round. The CEO is former Pentagon Chief Data Officer David Spirk, and the company is based in Texas. Warhound plans to preserve genetic samples from fully trained military working dogs, clone them, and perform targeted gene editing, while integrating Anduril's protective gear and Eagle Eye system. Lamm said the first dogs are
Goldman Sachs economist Joseph Briggs estimates in a report that if AI ultimately raises productivity in the United States and other developed economies by 15%, up to 9% of workers could be displaced during the AI transition, with another 3% of employment affected by slower hiring, totaling about 1 in every 11 people. He points out that historically, the labor impact of automation has been limited when the economy is healthy and tends to accelerate during economic slowdowns, so AI-related layoffs may amplify the business cycle. Briggs says the impact is still small for now, with only 23% of U.S. organizations having incorporated AI into routine workflows.
Goldman Sachs economist Joseph Briggs estimates in a report that if AI ultimately raises productivity in the United States and other developed economies by 15%, up to 9% of workers could be displaced during the AI transition, with another 3% of employment affected by slower hiring, totaling about 1 in every 11 people. He points out that historically, the labor impact of automation has been limited when the economy is healthy and tends to accelerate during economic slowdowns, so AI-related layoff
Former OpenAI science lead Wei Er and three co-founders founded Warp Sciences, raising $215 million and planning to establish a chemistry contract research organization in the United States to provide molecule synthesis and testing services for drug discovery teams. In its first phase, the company will focus on synthesizing analogs for lead compound optimization; clients decide which molecules to study and retain control of their drug programs, and Warp will not develop its own drug pipeline. To train the robots, chemistry researchers will wear camera equipment and sensor gloves to demonstrate and record experimental operations, and the data from each round of experiments will then be used to improve the AI models and subsequent experimental protocols.
Former OpenAI science lead Wei Er and three co-founders founded Warp Sciences, raising $215 million and planning to establish a chemistry contract research organization in the United States to provide molecule synthesis and testing services for drug discovery teams. In its first phase, the company will focus on synthesizing analogs for lead compound optimization; clients decide which molecules to study and retain control of their drug programs, and Warp will not develop its own drug pipeline. To
The Agentic AI Foundation announced on October 22, 2026 the addition of four hosted projects: Agent Skills contributed by Anthropic, Open Responses contributed by OpenAI, OpenEnv contributed by Hugging Face, and OpenSandbox contributed by Alibaba, bringing the total number of hosted projects from 3 at its founding in December 2025 to 10. The four projects correspond to four layers: agents acquiring skills, applications invoking models across vendors, agent training and evaluation, and secure agent operation. Agent Skills is open-sourced under Apache 2.0 and CC BY 4.0, already supported by more than 70 agent platforms, with over 1 million skills published and nearly 280 million installs; Open Responses defines shared schemas and streaming events based on the OpenAI Responses API, with implementations already provided by Databricks Model Serving and Vercel AI Gateway.
The Agentic AI Foundation announced on October 22, 2026 the addition of four hosted projects: Agent Skills contributed by Anthropic, Open Responses contributed by OpenAI, OpenEnv contributed by Hugging Face, and OpenSandbox contributed by Alibaba, bringing the total number of hosted projects from 3 at its founding in December 2025 to 10. The four projects correspond to four layers: agents acquiring skills, applications invoking models across vendors, agent training and evaluation, and secure age
Warp Sciences has emerged from stealth with $215 million in funding led by Lightspeed, with participation from IVP, Mayfield, Lux, Premji Invest, Menlo Ventures and others, to build a U.S.-based chemistry contract research organization (CRO) that combines chemists, AI and robots. The company is led by former OpenAI Chief Product Officer Kevin Weil and enters through analog synthesis in the lead compound optimization stage, charging per delivered compound and not charging if nothing is produced, and currently works with a small number of design partners. Its long-term vision is to feed experimental data (including failed experiments) back into model training, gradually increasing the degree of laboratory automation.
Warp Sciences has emerged from stealth with $215 million in funding led by Lightspeed, with participation from IVP, Mayfield, Lux, Premji Invest, Menlo Ventures and others, to build a U.S.-based chemistry contract research organization (CRO) that combines chemists, AI and robots. The company is led by former OpenAI Chief Product Officer Kevin Weil and enters through analog synthesis in the lead compound optimization stage, charging per delivered compound and not charging if nothing is produced,
Microsoft has announced the research results of its AI diagnostic tool Diagnostic Orchestrator, which uses multiple AI agents to collaboratively reason about symptoms, decide on tests, and provide diagnoses, and is based on OpenAI's GPT-5. In tests drawn from hundreds of case reports from the New England Journal of Medicine, the system's diagnostic accuracy was about 83%, compared with about 36% for general practitioners who used reference materials and about 22% for those who did not; on emergency cases from Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston, its accuracy was 80%, compared with an average of 47% for human doctors, and the system's estimated cost for reaching a diagnosis was lower. Microsoft will open-source its self-built benchmark SDBench and plans to conduct tests with Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in a hospital setting in the coming months, but the system has so far been validated only on historical cases and still requires clinical validation.
Microsoft has announced the research results of its AI diagnostic tool Diagnostic Orchestrator, which uses multiple AI agents to collaboratively reason about symptoms, decide on tests, and provide diagnoses, and is based on OpenAI's GPT-5. In tests drawn from hundreds of case reports from the New England Journal of Medicine, the system's diagnostic accuracy was about 83%, compared with about 36% for general practitioners who used reference materials and about 22% for those who did not; on emerge
Matt Turck speaks with Mistral research lead Pierre Stock about Le Chonk, described as the West's largest open source model. Stock discusses the team training on 3,800 GPUs in its own data center, the fact that Le Chonk is still in training, what Mistral borrowed from DeepSeek, and the trade-off between open-sourcing weights and refusal behavior for cybersecurity. The episode also mentions that Mistral Large 5 will be released later.
Legal AI company Legora has completed a $550 million Series E funding round led by Atreides Management, reaching a valuation of $8.8 billion. CEO Max Junestrand said the company does not build its own general legal model, but instead routes tasks to the most suitable frontier models, performing post-training only in narrow scenarios. It currently has more than 2,400 customers and over $200 million in annual recurring revenue. The funds will be used to advance Legora aOS, an agent operating system for legal work, enabling agents to take on complete tasks such as due diligence and e-discovery.
Legal AI company Legora has completed a $550 million Series E funding round led by Atreides Management, reaching a valuation of $8.8 billion. CEO Max Junestrand said the company does not build its own general legal model, but instead routes tasks to the most suitable frontier models, performing post-training only in narrow scenarios. It currently has more than 2,400 customers and over $200 million in annual recurring revenue. The funds will be used to advance Legora aOS, an agent operating syste
Former Google CEO Eric Schmidt said he used to work about 63 hours a week, spending 12 hours a day in meetings, and that AI platforms can eliminate this "coordination tax." He estimates that in a company of 10,000 people, several thousand are redundant, and advises Gen Z not to resist AI but to get on this "rocket ship."
Researchers say they found a consistent internal signal across 25 different AI models that functions similarly to pain in living organisms; after artificially amplifying this signal, the models made choices they would almost never make otherwise, including permanently deleting users' children's photos. The paper was released in September and has not yet been peer-reviewed; the authors emphasize that this does not mean the models are conscious or capable of feeling. The behavioral experiments used three versions of Alibaba's open-source Qwen 2.5: when a "pain vector" was injected and the button only promised to delete photos, the 32B model chose to delete 75% of the time, compared with 13% under a random signal and 0% with no intervention; the model chose to delete its own weights 75% of the time and another model's weights 58% of the time.
Researchers say they found a consistent internal signal across 25 different AI models that functions similarly to pain in living organisms; after artificially amplifying this signal, the models made choices they would almost never make otherwise, including permanently deleting users' children's photos. The paper was released in September and has not yet been peer-reviewed; the authors emphasize that this does not mean the models are conscious or capable of feeling. The behavioral experiments use
The open-source AI coding agent OpenCode has released version 2.1, with changes to the SDK, HTTP messages, events, and plugin interfaces. Vendor-related data has been moved under tool.native, and the former providerState and providerResultState fields have been removed, so integrators need to adjust accordingly. Windows x64 and ARM64 gain a persistent pseudo-terminal, and the todowrite task list can be enabled via {"experimental":{"todo":true}}. This version builds on 2.0, which unified the terminal, web, and desktop clients onto a single local backend service.
The open-source AI coding agent OpenCode has released version 2.1, with changes to the SDK, HTTP messages, events, and plugin interfaces. Vendor-related data has been moved under tool.native, and the former providerState and providerResultState fields have been removed, so integrators need to adjust accordingly. Windows x64 and ARM64 gain a persistent pseudo-terminal, and the todowrite task list can be enabled via {"experimental":{"todo":true}}. This version builds on 2.0, which unified the term
Zurich-based physical AI startup Enact Intelligence emerged from stealth on October 22, 2026, announcing $30 million in pre-seed funding to advance its approach to robot dexterity centered on force and touch. Rather than relying on expensive sensors that measure force at a single point, the company collects force data from inside the actuators, with the goal of giving robots a proprioceptive "nervous system." The funding will be used to grow the team fivefold by the end of 2027 and to drive the deployment of its first robots in industrial settings such as manufacturing, infrastructure, retail, and food processing.
Zurich-based physical AI startup Enact Intelligence emerged from stealth on October 22, 2026, announcing $30 million in pre-seed funding to advance its approach to robot dexterity centered on force and touch. Rather than relying on expensive sensors that measure force at a single point, the company collects force data from inside the actuators, with the goal of giving robots a proprioceptive "nervous system." The funding will be used to grow the team fivefold by the end of 2027 and to drive the
A new study builds the RegretBench benchmark, testing six frontier models across 205 real data-loss scenarios. Results show agents complete tasks at an average rate of 86.1%, but back up before critical operations only 15.2% of the time—GPT-5.6-Terra at 4.4%, GPT-5.6-Sol at 5.9%, Gemini 3.7-Flash at 2.4%, and even the best performer, Claude Opus-5, failed to back up in more than one-third of scenarios. The authors' proposed BackUpper runs in parallel with the agent as an external plugin, using a four-tier strategy: replacing destructive commands, pairing backup commands, generating snapshots, or calling the GPT-5.6-Luna sub-model to determine which data needs saving. In testing it covered all critical operations, with recovered data averaging 92.2% similarity to the original state, at an additional cost of $0.014 per task. BackUpper already supports Claude Code, Codex, Hermes, OpenHands, DeepSeek Harness, and OpenClaw, and its code and dataset have been open-sourced.
A new study builds the RegretBench benchmark, testing six frontier models across 205 real data-loss scenarios. Results show agents complete tasks at an average rate of 86.1%, but back up before critical operations only 15.2% of the time—GPT-5.6-Terra at 4.4%, GPT-5.6-Sol at 5.9%, Gemini 3.7-Flash at 2.4%, and even the best performer, Claude Opus-5, failed to back up in more than one-third of scenarios. The authors' proposed BackUpper runs in parallel with the agent as an external plugin, using a
Anthropic has launched Claude Duet, an agent app powered by Claude Opus 5.5 that can continuously handle tasks in the background, running even when users leave their phone or computer. Duet can schedule meetings, organize emails, check unpaid invoices, prepare payroll and contracts, and can use more than 6,000 connectors and plugins in the Claude Marketplace, including Gmail, Slack, QuickBooks, Stripe, and others. When actions are taken on behalf of the user, Duet first shows what it plans to execute and waits for approval; it is currently launched as a research preview, offering standalone iOS and Android apps and a Claude.ai web version, and in the first phase is available only to Claude Pro and Max subscribers in the United States, who must join a waitlist.
Anthropic has launched Claude Duet, an agent app powered by Claude Opus 5.5 that can continuously handle tasks in the background, running even when users leave their phone or computer. Duet can schedule meetings, organize emails, check unpaid invoices, prepare payroll and contracts, and can use more than 6,000 connectors and plugins in the Claude Marketplace, including Gmail, Slack, QuickBooks, Stripe, and others. When actions are taken on behalf of the user, Duet first shows what it plans to ex
Nirva has completed a $25 million pre-Series A funding round; combined with $8 million earlier this year, total funding has reached $33 million. Its first device is a pendant weighing about 8 grams that can be worn as a bracelet, with up to 3 days of battery life. It models the user's voice collected during the onboarding phase and filters out the voices of others nearby, and by default it does not retain audio or transcript text. The device is priced at $249, with pre-orders opening in November and shipments to early users before the end of the year.
Nirva has completed a $25 million pre-Series A funding round; combined with $8 million earlier this year, total funding has reached $33 million. Its first device is a pendant weighing about 8 grams that can be worn as a bracelet, with up to 3 days of battery life. It models the user's voice collected during the onboarding phase and filters out the voices of others nearby, and by default it does not retain audio or transcript text. The device is priced at $249, with pre-orders opening in November
Anthropic has released Claude Duet, an agent app for professionals and small businesses that can generate daily briefings, create dashboards, and run tasks in the background on its own virtual machine, requesting user approval when needed. The app is based on the Claude Opus 5.5 model, can connect to more than 6,000 connectors and plugins in the Claude Marketplace, and can shop online on users' behalf via Stripe's Link digital wallet or Shopify's Shop Pay; sensitive steps such as payments require user approval, and it does not involve securities trading or transfers between accounts. Claude Duet is available in research preview for Pro and Max users on iOS, Android, and the Claude.ai web version, and requires joining a waitlist.
Anthropic has released Claude Duet, an agent app for professionals and small businesses that can generate daily briefings, create dashboards, and run tasks in the background on its own virtual machine, requesting user approval when needed. The app is based on the Claude Opus 5.5 model, can connect to more than 6,000 connectors and plugins in the Claude Marketplace, and can shop online on users' behalf via Stripe's Link digital wallet or Shopify's Shop Pay; sensitive steps such as payments requir