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Waymo says it closed a $5B term loan, its first debt financing. Bloomberg's 5.25-point pricing is still only reported. What is confirmed and what is not.

BYD's humanoid design patent is published, but its August debut has not happened. Kerala Police signed a traffic-robot MoU. Neither is a product yet.

Four defence-tech items from 8–9 October 2026: EOS signs a conditional £370m counter-drone contract with an unnamed Gulf state, Shield AI says the US Navy added $150 million for X-BAT, a Senate bill proposes Pentagon reporting rules for large AI contractors, and the Indian Army orders 225 FPV drones. What each says, and what it doesn't.

Three robotics items from 8 October 2026: a FAIR at Meta and Mila preprint on how robot "world models" scale, a reported Series A for Beijing's Livsyn Robotics, and CP AI Robotics' C1 store humanoid, which the company plans to roll out in Japanese convenience stores "as early as 2027". What each shows, and what it doesn't.

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.

A former Tesla Optimus AI lead is reportedly building non-humanoid factory robots. AWS has published open sample code for training robot software in the cloud. Locus keeps its top AMR ranking in the Americas, and ZS Robotics brings a low-profile pallet shuttle to the US. What is confirmed, what is reported and what is company-claimed.

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.

Boston Dynamics has appointed former Amazon Alexa and AGI chief Rohit Prasad as CEO, effective 7 October 2026. What the company confirmed, what Hyundai's 2028 Atlas factory target means, and what is still unknown.

Elon Musk says Tesla and SpaceX will build and run the Terafab AI chip complex in Texas, with TSMC at most subleasing part of it. Intel's CEO says Intel remains involved. What was said, what Terafab is, and the open questions.