Meta
Meta unveils Muse Charm and 100-gram VR Glasses at Connect
The VR Glasses cost $1,299.99 and arrive in spring 2027, while Muse Charm, a pocket device for Meta's Muse agent, still has no price.
AI · 4 min read · about.fb.com
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Meta
Meta unveils Muse Charm and 100-gram VR Glasses at Connect
The VR Glasses cost $1,299.99 and arrive in spring 2027, while Muse Charm, a pocket device for Meta's Muse agent, still has no price.
AI · 4 min read · about.fb.com
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a16z
a16z puts $35M into a school for high school graduates
The Horowitz Andreessen Academy's first class of about 50 pays no tuition, but its CEO told Fortune later classes may pay $60,000 to $90,000 a year.
AI · 4 min read · a16z.com
Anthropic
Claude agents spot CRISPR-like repeats beside a phage enzyme
Anthropic says about 950 Claude agents flagged ART, an enzyme system in jumbo phages, but its pre-print isn't peer reviewed and ART's job is unknown.
AI · 3 min read · anthropic.com
BYD
BYD patent reveals its first humanoid robot design
China's patent office published the design on October 9, five months after BYD filed it, for a robot meant to walk, balance and interact.
Robotics · 2 min read · epub.cnipa.gov.cn
SpaceX
SpaceX agrees to buy 800 MHz spectrum for Starlink Mobile
The deal for Grain Management's nationwide licenses, reportedly worth about $8 billion, aims to carry Starlink Mobile signals indoors and needs FCC approval.
Tech · 4 min read · spacex.com
Apple
Apple sends “Welcome home” invites for a New York event
Invitations point to an “Apple Experience” in Tribeca at 9:00 a.m. Eastern on October 13, and reports expect home devices that Apple hasn't confirmed.
Tech · 2 min read · apple.com
UBTECH
UBTECH to test humanoid robots in FAW-Volkswagen logistics
The October 8 deal names no robot model, plant, robot count or price, and builds on a 2024 quality-inspection trial in Qingdao.
Robotics · 2 min read · m.gkong.com
OpenAI
GPT-6 rolls out to free ChatGPT with interactive answers
Paid plans get GPT-6 Sol and Free and Go get GPT-6 Luna, and answers can now include charts, maps, forms and small tools built on the spot.
AI · 3 min read · openai.com
Anthropic
Claude Haiku 5.5 cuts API prices by up to 90%
Anthropic's new small model costs $0.10 per million input tokens on short requests, and Max and Team plans now get monthly API credits.
AI · 2 min read · anthropic.com
Ai2
Ai2 and LMU retrofit Llama and Qwen to read raw bytes
A Nature paper converts trained models to read text byte by byte for under 1% of a pretraining budget, and adds Bwen 8B and Blama 8B to Ai2's Bolmo family.
AI · 3 min read · nature.com
OpenAI
OpenAI posts 722 AI-written math papers, then pulls three
An unreleased OpenAI model wrote the papers, about 42% of the top results are checked in Lean, and mathematicians are split over the release.
AI · 3 min read · openai.com
Google
Nano Banana 2.1 halves Google's price for 1K images
Google's new Flash image model costs $0.0336 per 1K image in the Gemini API, down from $0.067, and ranks sixth on Arena's text-to-image board.
AI · 2 min read · deepmind.google
Meta
Meta and Sierra plan an open sign-in standard for AI agents
The Personal Agent Protocol would let a customer's AI agent sign in to a business over OAuth, with Walmart, Shopify and Stripe among the partners.
AI · 2 min read · sierra.ai
Mistral AI
Mistral Large 4 opens in preview with 1 trillion parameters
Mistral AI's multimodal model costs $1.36 per million input tokens in preview, with open weights promised by the end of October.
AI · 4 min read · mistral.ai
Google
Googlebooks go on sale, and only Acer's starts at $899
Five models from Acer, Dell, Lenovo, ASUS and HP reached US stores on October 4 with a year of Google AI Pro, and early testing faults the software.
Tech · 3 min read · blog.google
Boston Dynamics
Boston Dynamics gives Atlas a four-finger hand for tool use
The new hand drops the pinky, goes from 7 to 13 degrees of freedom and has pressure sensors across the fingertips and palm.
Robotics · 3 min read · bostondynamics.com
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