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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.

Pine AI says Pine Computer is a sandboxed cloud computer that developers' products can hand jobs to. Private beta, company-reported: what it is, how the SDK flow works, and why its benchmark shows more progress but fewer finished tasks.

What Grok Bot connects to, how sign-in and custom MCP connections work, what it can do inside Gmail, Drive, Notion and more, and how to limit its access.

micro1 says it will spend $1bn over 12 months buying and licensing company data to train AI agents. What the data is for, what micro1 says about privacy, and which details come only from TNW.

Torch Systems announced $11.5M on 6 October 2026: $9.5M equity and $2M venture debt. What its solar-powered TerraNode sensor does, what equity versus venture debt means, and which figures come only from the CEO.

OpenAI says Codex can now suggest your next message (beta, Pro), and ChatGPT dots can be created on a phone and start work in Codex. What is confirmed, and what is a staff post.

Spot a made-up AI answer in 5 minutes: a numbered checklist covering sources, numbers, dates and cross-checks, plus what to do when you find a mistake.

Scale AI and Elorian's Humanity's Sixth Sense benchmark finds people score 93.1% on everyday visual questions while the best model, GPT-6 Astra, scores 53.6%, mostly because models misread the picture. A separate preprint, not yet peer reviewed, says base models can reason almost as well as RL-trained ones when their answer starts with the right word.

Anthropic has expanded its Cyber Verification Program into three tiers, Defense, Red Team and Specialized, that relax Claude's cyber safety blocks for vetted security teams on Opus 5.5, Sonnet 5.5 and Mythos 5.1. Specialized applicants are reviewed with the US government. What each tier allows, and what Anthropic's own test shows.

On 6 October OpenAI launched a Decisions API that returns yes/no probabilities, picks and rubric scores from GPT-6 Luna, and cut its API usage tiers from five to three. Perplexity released pplx-decider-v1.1-27b, an Apache 2.0 open-weight decision model. What decision models are, what each costs, and which scores are the vendors' own.