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MarkTechPost reports that Generalist AI’s GEN-1.5 robot model achieved 59% average success across 10 manipulation tasks after seeing one 3–12 second demonstration, but remains a research release without public weights or an API.
GeekWire reports that residential-construction AI startup Digs raised $25.3 million in Series A funding and signed a five-year integration agreement with Builders FirstSource.
The South China Morning Post reports that open-weight models reached 62% of token volume on Vercel’s AI Gateway, led by DeepSeek-V4-Flash and other Chinese models. The reported shift suggests developers are prioritizing lower-cost models for token-intensive production workloads, although the underlying platform…
Cheshire Academy is testing a school-wide framework that labels assignments green, yellow, or red according to how students may use AI.
CX Today reports that OpenAI wants California’s frontier-AI rules amended around risk assessment, transparency, incident reporting and cybersecurity, a position that could affect enterprise AI procurement and governance.
36Kr reports that Shenzhen-based Pivot Technology completed two financing rounds totaling nearly 100 million yuan and claims that customers include more than 60% of China’s embodied-AI companies valued above 10 billion yuan. The customer and financing claims have not been independently confirmed.
Passenger Terminal Today reports that Punta Cana Airport has deployed SeeTrue AI software with Leidos CT baggage-screening technology to identify concealed drugs and undeclared currency.
Revelio Labs reports that many companies citing AI for layoffs had expanded AI-related roles while cutting other positions, but nearly half of its cohort showed weaker or declining AI adoption.
The Guardian reports that US gas-fired power capacity in development has surged as AI data centers drive electricity demand, raising concerns about emissions, energy costs and local opposition.
SiliconANGLE reports that Thomson Reuters launched Thomson, a proprietary legal AI model trained with the company’s content and professional expertise, initially for document analysis in CoCounsel.
In an interview with TechCrunch, OpenAI product chief Thibault Sottiaux described ChatGPT Work as a consumer-facing effort to make coding-agent capabilities handle complex professional tasks. He said the product has reached 20 million users, a figure not independently confirmed in the source.
The ABA Journal reports that New Mexico’s high court removed a defense lawyer from a murder appeal, found him in contempt and ordered a $5,000 payment after AI-generated errors appeared in his brief.
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