Garp https://validator.w3.org/feed/docs/rss2.html Anthropic continues compute-gobbling streak in $45 billion deal with Nscale About Contact OpenAI Jalapeno Custom AI ASIC at Hot Chips 2026 Google’s TPUv8s for Training and Inference at Hot Chips 2026 How green is your robot? And other awkward questions Viral AI startup Instinct has raised $350 million at a $2.5 billion valuation OpenAI to start showing ads on ChatGPT’s free and Go tiers in India Always-on and self-starting AI agents might be OpenAI’s next big play As electric two-wheelers gain a foothold, Belgian startup Any bets on cargo space Meta executive leaves for OpenAI as the social media giant faces growing scrutiny in India Anthropic gets its first court win over the Pentagon’s supply chain risk label The Week’s 10 Biggest Funding Rounds: AI Tools And Assistants Lead Sparser Lineup Of Megadeals How Sweden built one of Europe’s hottest startup ecosystems  Google DeepMind’s “Co-Scientist” Evolves from a Hypothesis Generator to a Research Partner Google Deepmind’s AI Co-Scientist now plans experiments, runs lab equipment, and writes scientific papers Deere faces headwinds in Q3 update and announces Reservoir R&D partnership How Locus is getting a grasp on one of robotics biggest challenges: manipulation Fashion startup Atorie raises $9.5M to bring consumers luxury goods without the markup An Anthropic researcher just gave us a peek at self-improving AI From teach and repeat to SelfPath AI: The next robotics leap Sector Snapshot: Space Tech Startup Funding Orbits New Highs  EXL acquires physical AI model developer iMerit Piloting the world’s first double-blind AI evaluations GeForce NOW Gives Gamers More Ways to Play at Gamescom 2026 How OpenAI let a mob of LLM agents game a test and ransack Hugging Face OpenAI researcher warns ultrafast AI could leave security teams in the dust 3 new ways to plan and book travel in Search Gemini Omni 1.1 Flash lets you build with more control Barret Zoph, the Thinking Machines co-founder who defected to OpenAI, is now at Google Elon Musk’s xAI used child porn to train Grok models, lawsuit says Anthropic’s new hardware standard lets AI agents control the physical world Nvidia closes in on Hugging Face acquisition Carbon Robotics partners with iMerit to power instant in-field AI customization Fashion startup Atoire raises $9.5M to bring consumers luxury goods without the markup NSF to invest $90M into three new technology centers, including one focused on robotics Teradyne Robotics ramps up fight against cobot copycats Socure Secures $156M at $5.2B Valuation, Acquires AI Fraud Investigation Startup Fravity Hugging Face is selling a cute $399 open-source duck robot, Microduck OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, and 100 other companies call for action to defend against rogue AI Anthropic and OpenAI are joining the AI stage at TechCrunch Disrupt 2026  IBM’s new Granite 4.2 models ride the wave of interest in local LLMs Sector Snapshot: Legal Tech Funding Down Slightly From All-Time High  Hearing tech startup Legato emerges from stealth with $12M and a peek at its AI hearing glasses Arga is building a better way to train enterprise AI agents Apple Mac Studio M5 Ultra and Mac Mini M6 Launched Intelligent transcription with Gemini 3.5 Transcribe How do we explain OpenAI’s executive exodus? Delivering Vera: NVIDIA’s First CPU Built for Agents Is Shipping Now Report: Nvidia to acquire AI model repository Hugging Face for $13 billion