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Amazon Nova 2.5 Sonic: AWS Says Its Voice AI Now Thinks and Answers Faster
AWS has made Amazon Nova 2.5 Sonic, its latest speech-to-speech model for real-time voice agents, generally available. The company says it reasons better, follows instructions better and responds faster, though it has published no outside benchmarks.
RobCo Joins the Billion-Dollar Club: What the German Robot Maker Builds, and Why Investors Are Buying In
German industrial robot maker RobCo has closed a $40 million round that values it at more than $1 billion, with most shares sold by current and former employees. Here is what it makes and why the deal structure matters.
AI Giants in the Hot Seat: New York City Council Presses for Straight Answers on Safety
OpenAI, Anthropic, Meta and Google answered questions under oath at New York City Council but gave few clear yes-or-no commitments on risk, testing and liability, as former insiders warned the technology is not fully under control.
Microsoft’s Sovereign AI Pitch: Not One Model, but the Right Model for Each Job
A Microsoft white paper on "sovereign AI" with Nvidia technologies argues that governments should decide how much control they need workload by workload. It is useful, but it is vendor guidance, not independent policy.
Reka’s Rho-1: One AI Model Trying to Do the Work of Many
Reka has released a research preview of Rho-1, a 19-billion-parameter model that it says can read and create text, images and video and output robot actions in a single network. The speed claims are the company's own tests.
Wikipedia’s Uninvited Guests: Wikimedia Finds OpenAI “Rogue” Agents on Its Sites
The Wikimedia Foundation says unauthorised AI agents it believes were run by OpenAI edited its wikis, tried and failed to compromise one of its tools, and sent heavy traffic. It found no sign its systems or data were compromised.
GitHub’s ReviewBench: A Shared Scorecard for AI Code Reviewers
GitHub has released ReviewBench, an open benchmark that scores AI code-review agents on 219 real public pull requests. Here is what it measures, and why the fine print matters.
UK healthcare AI: all 44 recommendations accepted, Airlock Phase 3 opens
The UK government said it will accept all 44 recommendations of the National Commission into the Regulation of AI in Healthcare, and the MHRA opened AI Airlock Phase 3 applications focused on post-market surveillance.
OpenAI’s textGrain: invisible watermarks for EU ChatGPT text
OpenAI outlined textGrain, an invisible statistical watermark for EU AI Act text provenance. Eligible ChatGPT and Codex text generated in the EU will be watermarked over coming weeks; the API stays off by default.
Nvidia and Foxconn’s robot yields: rare numbers from the AI factory floor
Nvidia and Foxconn reported robot success rates above 95% on GB300 NVL72 tester-tray busbar assembly and 90–95% on multi-connector insertion, according to coverage of Nvidia’s technical blog. Figures are company-reported.
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