The Pollen Robotics team has introduced Grabette—an open, low-cost system for recording manipulation demonstrations that does not require a robot. The device is a handheld gripper with cameras, enabling the collection of training-ready datasets in LeRobot format. The project aims to build a large publicly available manipulation database.
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Hugging Face
Tencent has introduced a new AI model, Hunyuan Hy3, which automatically switches between two output modes. According to test results, the model outperforms GLM5.1 on several metrics.
Tencent
The CEO of Moonshot AI, the company behind the Kimi model, commented on three key controversial issues in the AI industry: pricing of state-of-the-art (SOTA) models, competition, and regulation. He emphasized that leading models should have the right to set their own prices based on their value and market position.
Moonshot AI
Chinese company Zhipu has launched a data center that operates exclusively on chips made in China. This is a step towards reducing dependence on foreign technology.
Chinese company Moonshot AI unveiled its new model Kimi K3, which claimed the top spot in global coding rankings, surpassing leading international models. The article discusses whether Chinese large language models can become leaders in the field of artificial intelligence.
Moonshot AI
Jacob Zimmerman, winner of the 2026 Fields Medal, announced his move to OpenAI immediately after the ceremony to work on AI safety. He is known for predicting that AI could lead to human extinction and for classifying such scenarios. Three days earlier, his former student, Levant Alpöge, who works at Anthropic, used Claude Fable 5 to disprove an 87-year-old Jacobi hypothesis.
OpenAI
Anthropic
In a new data center financing deal for Meta (recognized as an extremist organization in the Russian Federation) worth $12 billion, investors are demanding yields above 7%, significantly higher than terms nine months ago. The El Paso project, with a capacity of nearly 1 GW, plans to issue bonds through BlackRock's SPV.
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BlackRock
Intel reported better-than-expected quarterly results, with revenue rising 25% to $16.1 billion, marking its fastest growth since 2011. The server segment grew 59%, while the contract manufacturing unit Intel Foundry increased revenue by 30.5%. The company expects further growth and forecasts third-quarter revenue above analyst estimates.
Intel Corporation
According to an article in The Conversation, the US government is effectively establishing control over global access to cutting-edge artificial intelligence systems, using not only legal but also extraterritorial measures. This raises questions about the sovereignty of other countries and concerns about inequality in access to AI.
During the conversation, they discussed how Claude Code, Claude Tag, and Fable are changing development: Claude Tag closes 65% of PRs for Anthropic's product team, and Claude Code's system prompt has been reduced by 80% for new models. The developers talked about engineers shifting skills toward business acumen, the benefit of rewriting code, and how internal "dogfooding" helps select features based on user retention.
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