Physical AI - Page 11

An NVIDIA tutorial shows OpenAI's Codex coding agent turning a Jetson Orin Nano into a self-starting kiosk that captions a live webcam feed with Google's small Gemma 4 E2B model, running on the device. What the demo shows, what "No Mac required" means, and why local inference matters.

Manus raises more than $500m after Beijing blocked Meta's takeover. Tab emerges at a $300m valuation. Nvidia reportedly discusses another $1bn for Figure. ElevenLabs says it has passed a $600m run rate, and Synthesia launches Syren in beta. A Reuters/Ipsos poll finds most Americans think government is not taking AI risks seriously enough.

A Tesla Cybercab lost a door panel in a Philadelphia crash, with fault unknown and no Tesla AV certificate in Pennsylvania. Updated 10 Oct with the Texas registry count, NHTSA's 30 October deadline and Tesla's own claim of 300+ Cybercabs serving Austin. What is reported, what is confirmed, and what we don't know. Waymo, XPENG and Pony.ai/Uber stories now have their own posts.

Mecka AI raised a $60M Series B led by Sequoia to pay people to record everyday tasks as robot training data. Parallel Systems closed a $100M Series C for battery-electric autonomous freight rail. What each company confirmed, what is company claim, and what is still missing.

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.