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- Eka Robotics raises $150M to teach robots dexterous work through touch
MIT researcher Pulkit Agrawal and reinforcement-learning pioneer Tuomas Haarnoja are betting that force feedback and simulation can take robots beyond repetitive factory tasks.
- WSJ says Musk authorized Starshield slowdown that disrupted Ukrainian drones
Ukraine says a 160 kph speed cap disrupted military drone operations; Musk says the U.S. government controls Starshield, while Trump denies ordering the limit.
- NVIDIA's local GLM checkpoint needs two GPUs to run
Released October 5th, the FP4 version of Z.ai's GLM-5.3-Flash uses about 166 GiB of VRAM; Qwen's counterpart occupies about 96 GiB on disk.
- Xojo gives coding agents a compiler-feedback loop inside its IDE
Founder Geoff Perlman is extending Xojo's cross-platform development environment so outside agents can edit projects, run them and read compiler errors.
- Personal AI wants carriers to put an AI agent on your phone bill
CEO Suman Kanuganti is pitching carriers on SIM-linked memory and voice agents, with token plans that could make AI another network service.
- Tripo AI opens EdenLive, a real-time renderer for interactive scenes
Tripo AI says EdenLive can render 720p video above 24 fps on an RTX 5090, while its open-source materials leave practical hardware requirements to sort out.
- SourceGear packages SQLite's official encryption for five operating systems
SQLite.Encrypted offers packages for five operating systems and nine development environments. SourceGear lists a $995 annual subscription for one team, but its package also requires a valid SEE license from SQLite.
- Navy and GSA lift Gecko Robotics contract ceiling to $300 million
The five-year IDIQ expands from a $71 million ceiling, with work set to extend from Pacific Fleet ships to the Atlantic; the ceiling is not guaranteed spending.
- PHP schedules critical security release for October 21st
The release addresses two critical vulnerabilities, both rated CVSS v4.0 9.2. PHP is asking users to prepare to upgrade.
- ThreatLocker launches AI agent controls built on its deny-by-default model
ThreatLocker CEO Danny Jenkins is extending the security approach he built after a cyberattack nearly destroyed a client's business; the product's claims have not been independently tested.
- Firecrawl adds people-data prospecting to ChatGPT and Claude
The October 20th post advertises 1,000 free monthly credits and 270M+ records, while contact lookups beyond free search can cost credits.
- Peec AI researcher says ChatGPT retrieved and cited a site built with 50,000 fake stats
In his account, Yesilyurt describes a $50 experiment that he says drew ChatGPT retrievals and citations for fabricated figures. His traffic and citation measurements have not been independently verified.
- OpenAI adds 12-hour prompt caching for API agents
The Responses API option sets a 12-hour minimum cache lifetime for shared prompts, at twice the cache-write rate of the 30-minute option.
- Judge keeps former OpenAI engineer detained despite Saudi bond offer
At an October 19th hearing, Alfozan's lawyer said the Saudi government would guarantee $1 million; the judge questioned whether that could prevent him from fleeing.
- SOAR AI says it is installing transformers and cooling gear at its Ohio campus
In an October 20th update, the company said installation was under way at its Chillicothe campus and maintained a December 31st target for its first 4,096 GPUs to enter service. Revenue under the first of two four-year orders is expected in January 2027, subject to delivery and acceptance.
- OpenAI acquires Orchestra Bio to connect research AI with drug-development operations
Founder Ashoka Rajendra drew on biology research and life-sciences software work to build the platform; Orchestra had reportedly raised $20 million before the deal.
- Sophont says Holon-S1 maps predicted gene activity from routine slides
Co-founder Tanishq Mathew Abraham says Holon-S1 can help researchers study archived cancer slides. The model is for research use only, and its clinical utility still needs testing.
- Encord pairs muscle signals with video to train robots through hand occlusion
Co-founders Eric Landau and Ulrik Stig Hansen are adding biological data to Encord's robotics work with an open dataset and a new research division.
- Baba raises $40M Series A to scale Medicare care advocacy
FirstMark led the round, joined by CVS Health Ventures and others, as Baba says it has served fewer than 1% of Medicare's roughly 70 million members.
- ASI raises $325M at $3B to expand its airline-born AI into defense and energy
Co-founder Phillip Buckendorf started with flight dispatch; ASI is now selling software across aviation, defense and energy.
- Postquant Labs launches QVM to run optimization workloads across hardware
Postquant Labs' QVM testnet lists D-Wave Advantage alongside classical solvers; IonQ and IBM are planned. CEO Colton Dillion previously worked at Acorns and co-founded Hedgehog.
- Google adds a small-business hub to bring branding and finance into Gemini
The October 20th launch connects Google services and seven third-party apps, while Gemini turns uploaded brand guides and business records into marketing and financial outputs.
- Shadeform turns spare GPU clusters into marketplace capacity with Flex VMs
Ed Goode's Shadeform is extending its GPU marketplace to hardware owners, with approved nodes enrolling in about 30 minutes, Shadeform says.
- Ai2's FairStress tests whether LLM decisions hold under pressure
Researcher Pardis Sadat Zahraei and collaborators tested 15 models to see whether matched persuasive prompts change decisions differently across demographic groups.