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Anyone can now check an image, video or audio file for SynthID watermarks from Google and partners including OpenAI, NVIDIA and Kakao, with Apple to follow. A useful check for some AI content, not a general AI detector. What a "no" result does and does not mean.

Nous Research has raised $90 million to build Hermes for Businesses, a company version of its MIT-licensed Hermes agent. The raise is confirmed; the valuation is reported, mostly at $1.5B, with one $1.2B figure in circulation. Nous's "2.5% of global token usage" is its own estimate.

NVIDIA’s LoGRA paper shows low-rank gradient sketches cutting average RL training memory by up to 45.7% on tested Qwen reasoning setups—and making 27B RL runnable on one 8×H100 node where dense Adam OOMs. What the method is, what Table 1 shows, and what it does not prove.

Waymo’s own blog says it is adding a silver Ojai variant with interior trim updates, a wireless phone charger, new seats and rear armrests, ramping production in Mesa, Arizona, with rider service due first in San Francisco, Los Angeles and Las Vegas.

A GlobeNewswire release says CEVA Logistics has put Sereact’s Cortex dual-arm robots into live Zalando fashion-returns handling at Greven, Germany, and Świebodzin, Poland, under a Robotics-as-a-Service model after Zalando’s July 2026 Series B investment.

Multiply Labs’ company release says it raised $75 million in Series B funding led by Patrick Soon-Shiong’s NantWorks to scale robotic GMP manufacturing clusters for biologics, bringing total capital raised to over $100 million.

AM Intelligence says two further binding orders for ~20,000 Nvidia Rubin GPUs take committed capacity to ~29,000 GPUs and close to 100 MW, with plans for another 300 MW backed by more than $20bn. Company-reported.

Business Standard relays Bloomberg/FT reporting that SpaceX is in early talks to borrow about $40bn for Nvidia chips. Claims rest on unnamed sources; talks may not close. Not company-confirmed.

Foxconn’s July–September revenue rose 47% to NT$3.03 trillion (about $95.4 billion), beating estimates as AI server demand stayed strong, Reuters reported via Moneycontrol.

Reactor says NVIDIA’s NVentures and Sapphire Ventures joined its Lightspeed-led Series A to scale real-time world-model infrastructure. Secondary outlets report about $74 million in total funding.