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OpenAI acquires Orchestra Bio to expand Rosalind’s drug-development capabilitiesOrchestra’s agents monitor studies, campaigns and dependencies across biopharma programmes. OpenAI said the acquisition will support agents that connect scientific findings with studies, decisions and next steps needed to advance medicines.→NVIDIA adds cuPotential for AI-driven semiconductor simulationThe new cuPotential library lets AI agents simulate atomic and molecular interactions, with NVIDIA reporting an additional 2–3x acceleration in early-access testing. NVIDIA also reported major simulation and inspection speedups among semiconductor-industry adopters.→CERN and Mistral plan a foundation model for collider physicsThe planned model would target particle reconstruction and identification using billions of simulated collider events. CERN holds roughly one exabyte of experimental data and expects collision volumes to increase substantially after the Large Hadron Collider upgrade.→Cerence and Geely extend conversational AI into service roboticsThe companies are demonstrating a humanoid robot capable of interacting in French, English and Mandarin. The partnership marks an expansion from automotive voice systems into service-robotics applications.→AstraZeneca signs up to $1.5 billion AI drug-discovery deal with insitroAstraZeneca will pay $40 million upfront, with insitro eligible for up to approximately $1.46 billion in development and commercial milestones. Insitro will use its Virtual Human platform to identify causal disease biology for MASH and cardiomyopathies.→Valeo and KE:SAI launch an open autonomous-driving research collaborationThe collaboration will use reinforcement learning in simulation and trained world models to expose systems to rare and safety-critical driving situations. The partners said they plan to release the code, trained models and datasets as open source.→Air wins $200 million US Army command-and-control contractThe platform converts frontline operational data into demand signals covering supply stocks, unit capacity and force readiness. The award extends Air’s existing role in development and field testing for the Army ecosystem.→Mobilicom launches secure communications for autonomous drone swarmsThe products provide high-throughput links for data-heavy missions and extend Mobilicom’s secured-autonomy portfolio. The launch targets military operations involving multiple drones, robots and personnel.→Cummings demonstrates simultaneous autonomous missions from one fire-control systemThe vehicle-mounted test used two Hellhound S3 systems that executed autonomous missions while sharing a single fire-control system. The company said the systems could be monitored, adjusted or aborted in real time.→Ginkgo integrates high-content cellular imaging into its autonomous Nebula labThe system adds real-time cellular imaging and high-throughput data generation to Nebula’s robotic workflows. The resulting curated datasets are intended to train and validate AI models for drug discovery.→Health In Tech expands AI-assisted stop-loss insurance placementHitRix parses claims and policy documents, routes submissions to multiple carriers and compares proposals in one workspace. Human users remain responsible for reviewing and advancing placement decisions.→OpenAI releases a large collection of AI-generated mathematical manuscriptsThe collection contains 722 manuscripts organised into 372 related families, with Lean formalisation available for many but not all results. OpenAI warns that some non-formalised material may contain errors and is inviting community scrutiny.→Danaher plans an AI-powered autonomous laboratory for antibody discoveryThe planned lab will combine technologies from Abcam, Beckman Coulter Life Sciences, Cytiva, Genedata, Integrated DNA Technologies and Molecular Devices. Danaher says the system is intended to accelerate affinity-reagent discovery by up to eight times and increase reagent generation as it scales.→Palladyne, Federal and Mossberg develop autonomous counter-drone swarmSwarmShot combines Federal ammunition, a lightweight Mossberg weapon module and Palladyne’s IntelliSwarm autonomy system. The initial design targets reusable air-to-air interceptors that can coordinate as a defensive swarm.→Primitive Labs receives Sony backing for models of human behaviourInstinct is designed to model customer populations and simulate how people interact with digital products before launch. Primitive Labs says the system aims to make behavioural modelling a reusable layer in software and product decisions.→AI-supported warehouse robotics enables next-morning delivery at First SupplyThe deployment reportedly increased picking speed tenfold while leaving room for four times more capacity within the existing footprint. The system supports orders placed by 5 p.m. for next-morning delivery.→AI study suggests heart-transplant rejection may be flagged without biopsyThe study trained an AI system on electrocardiogram data paired with biopsy-linked biomarkers from transplant recipients. The researchers present it as a potential way to identify rejection earlier while reducing reliance on invasive biopsies.→A study finds radiology dominates FDA-authorised AI medical devicesThe analysis covered 1,430 authorisation records and found that 76.5% were reviewed by the FDA’s radiology panel. The authors use the result to highlight how clinical AI deployment remains concentrated in imaging workflows.→Google DeepMind introduces SynthID Bio for watermarking AI-designed proteinsSynthID Bio is designed to preserve biological function and natural diversity while embedding an imperceptible signature. Google positions the system as a way to improve provenance, biosecurity and screening of synthetic biological designs.→Ataraxos defeats a Stratego world champion with far less trainingAtaraxos won 15 games, lost one and drew four against Pim Niemeijer, described by the researchers as the most decorated Stratego player historically. The system trained on roughly 160 million games, compared with about 5.5 billion for DeepNash, and also performed strongly on Hanabi and dou dizhu.→AMD agrees to acquire World Labs for $8.2 billionAMD announced an all-stock acquisition of World Labs valued at approximately $8.2 billion. World Labs develops models for interactive 3D environments, robotic learning and simulation, while Fei-Fei Li will become AMD’s chief scientist.→SiMa.ai raises $150 million to scale purpose-built physical-AI chipsThe round brings SiMa.ai’s total funding to $500 million and will fund its Palette Neat agentic environment and next-generation hardware. The company is targeting 1,000 dense TOPS for chips aimed at humanoid robots, drones, vehicles and industrial systems.→Dozuki launches Forge AI for industrial workforce operationsForge AI applies connected operational knowledge, workforce skills and frontline activity to guidance, procedure review, troubleshooting and investigation. Dozuki said the product is designed to preserve and scale expertise as manufacturers face workforce shortages and rising operational complexity.→TerraFlow and DG Matrix target a new power architecture for live AI computeThe initial system combines TerraFlow's long-duration uninterruptible power technology, DG Matrix's programmable transformer platform and Dell PowerEdge servers. The companies said the architecture is intended to buffer rapid compute-load changes between the grid and the data centre.→SphereTrust selects pseudo-labels using frozen vision featuresSphereTrust ranks candidate masks using the geometry of frozen self-supervised features rather than an additional quality model. Across eight candidate pools, it exceeded the strongest evaluated external baseline on six pools by 1.7 to 9.3 Dice points.→Leopard Imaging and Lumotive introduce software-defined long-range 3D perceptionSirius Max combines programmable beam-steering illumination, long-range depth sensing, embedded processing and real-time RGB-depth fusion. The platform supports software-defined scanning and programmable sensing regions for robotics, autonomous navigation and industrial automation.→AlphaESS launches an AI energy agent in the BeneluxAlphaQ combines energy insights, tariff-aware battery management, service support and forecasting of prices, solar generation and household demand. Its energy plan can update every 15 minutes for dynamic-tariff use cases.→Envision launches an AI-optimised 8 MW onshore wind turbineThe turbine combines an 8 MW-class platform with AI control software using Envision's Tianji Weather Foundation Model and Dubhe Energy Foundation Model. The company says the system coordinates turbine operation and plant-level optimisation to improve energy yield and reliability.→Light Origins launches Light-O1 embodied foundation modelThe model combines language reasoning, visual-spatial understanding and whole-body action generation. The company reports scaling experiments across human data, Unitree G1 data and its LightBot platform, alongside public weights, code and a text-to-action preview model.→Verana Health releases AI agents for life-sciences researchThe agents generate execution plans for research questions and evaluate them against domain-specific controls. The release is aimed at giving researchers direct access to clinical datasets without requiring programming or analyst support.→WhalesBot introduces a modular physical-AI education robotEliteMind is positioned as a physical-AI platform combining robot hardware with AI learning activities. The launch reflects the expansion of embodied-AI tooling beyond industrial research into education and accessible experimentation.→Veeva introduces an agent for biopharma safety and quality triageFalcon Router will initially process email and web intake and route prioritised information to Veeva Safety, Veeva QMS, Veeva MedInquiry or designated inboxes. Early-adopter availability is planned for January 2027, so the announcement describes a forthcoming deployment rather than an already broad production rollout.→Simbe says its retail shelf-robot fleet has passed 3,000 unitsThe company said its Tally robots and associated computer-vision, RFID and edge-AI systems serve more than 75 retail banners across nearly a dozen countries. Simbe described the fleet as the largest commercially committed shelf-intelligence deployment identified in its research, though the figures are company-reported.→AI-guided gene editing targets climate-resilient corn traitsThe companies will use Rainbow Crops’ Trait Foundry to develop corn traits related to heat, drought and flood resilience. The collaboration is still an R&D programme, with performance to be tested through phenotyping and field trials rather than demonstrated in commercial crops.→AbbVie and Iambic partner on AI-driven small-molecule discoveryThe partnership will use Iambic’s Enchant v3 model and NeuralPLexer technology to evaluate many molecular properties and design hypotheses in parallel. Iambic will receive an upfront payment and may receive milestone payments and royalties, but the release does not disclose the financial terms or clinical outcomes of the collaboration.→Qiyuan puts personal robots on sale in ChinaQiyuan announced prices starting at 19,999 yuan for Q1 and 29,999 yuan for the T1 Pro, with deliveries scheduled from October 1. The company described the robots as foldable or transformable personal platforms and said it would provide SDK and hardware-development access.→Dongfeng schedules humanoid robots for factory workDongfeng’s chief engineer said Xiaodong would begin factory work in October and move to small-batch, limited-site trials by year-end. The automaker is targeting human-level capability by the end of 2027, which is a roadmap claim rather than demonstrated performance.→Ping An launches multilingual AI healthcare navigation in ChinaGlobalCare supports real-time two-way speech and text translation across 19 languages, including medical terminology. Ping An Good Doctor said the service was available for trial in Shenzhen after its unveiling at the Shenzhen Sci-Tech Innovation Exhibition.→Faraday Future unveils nine embodied-AI robot configurationsThe company said the launch covered the Futurist, Master Mini and three FX Aegis configurations, alongside solutions for education, research, security and inspection. Faraday Future also said the Futurist was on sale and that the Master Mini would start at $9,990; independent evidence of deployment or capability was not provided.→ScienceIDE turns scientific software into training environments for agentsScienceIDE uses expert-defined cases, acceptance criteria and verification to generate interaction trajectories for supervised fine-tuning, reinforcement learning and evaluation. The accompanying PhAI-IDE models show gains on selected scientific-code repair and general reasoning benchmarks.→Elsevier expands LeapSpace with 23 million full-text research articles and booksElsevier announced the expanded LeapSpace corpus and an independent advisory board on 16 September. The company says the full-text content covers 56% of recent global research citations and 42% of articles published since 2021, while the workspace supports literature reviews, study protocols, data, manuscripts and theses.→Nona Biosciences reports a human heavy-chain antibody language modelNona Biosciences announced HCAbLM on 16 September and said the accompanying study was posted to bioRxiv. The 366-million-parameter model was trained on sequences from 73 independently immunised transgenic mice; the company says it outperformed Meta's ESM-6B, IgLM and AbLang on SEC-purity and HIC-behaviour tests and transferred to thermal-stability prediction.→Gates Foundation commits at least $1 billion to equitable AIThe Gates Foundation said it will spend at least US$1 billion over two years to expand access to AI and AI-enabled solutions. The initiative focuses on health, education and agriculture, with an emphasis on underserved communities and local needs.→Elsevier and LG make chemistry in scientific images searchableElsevier and LG AI Research announced that Reaxys can extract chemical information from images, drawings and reaction schemes in patents and scientific literature. The system is intended to make substances, reactions and related evidence searchable at scale.→Ainos moves chemical-sensing AI into semiconductor productionAinos announced initial commercial orders from a front-end semiconductor company after validation activities involving approximately 200 AI Nose systems. The company also said its proprietary real-world chemical dataset has surpassed one billion records, supporting an edge-AI platform designed to detect chemical signals beyond conventional vision and audio.→OpenAI says an internal agent swarm produced a Navier–Stokes disproofOpenAI says an internal model produced an analytical proof that a smooth three-dimensional fluid can develop a finite-time singularity, addressing one formulation of the Navier–Stokes Millennium Prize problem. The work used approximately 10,000 agents, but independent mathematicians have not yet verified the result.→GPT-5.6 Sol autonomously runs routine quantum-chip measurementsAn MIT researcher used GPT-5.6 Sol through Codex to select measurement parameters, operate a six-qubit chip, analyse results and refine routine calibration steps. The system worked with little intervention on clear signals but still needed expert guidance when measurements were weak or noisy.→General Robotics says GRID can engineer a robot's full deployment lifecycleThe company says GRID can select the models and skills needed for a task, generate training simulations, deploy the resulting capability and monitor failures in real-world operation. It presents the system as a continuously improving platform that feeds robot performance and failures back into later deployments.→Dynamic Creatures launches SnowJay platform for interactive character robotsDynamic Creatures said it is Boston Dynamics’ official entertainment and hospitality partner and is developing mobile robots that respond to people and changing environments. Its SnowJay platform combines perception, learning-based control, behavioural programming and character design.→Google DeepMind launches AlphaGenome Atlas for interpreting human genetic variationThe atlas covers all 9 billion possible single-letter changes in the human genome and is backed by a petabyte-scale dataset. Google DeepMind is making an academic web portal available for exploring variant effects and disease-relevant regulatory regions.→Motional open-sources nuReasoning dataset for autonomous-driving edge casesThe nuReasoning dataset was developed with UCLA’s Mobility Lab and focuses on common-sense reasoning for difficult driving situations. Motional said an earlier miniset had already surpassed 50,000 downloads and that the release is intended to support driving foundation-model research.→Inceptio says autonomous trucks have exceeded one billion commercial kilometresThe company said the accumulated mileage comes from large-scale deployments and is generating real-world data for its freight autonomy systems. Inceptio is positioning the milestone as a step towards freight physical AI built around commercial operating conditions.→A major Chinese automaker selects Arbe radar for a Level 3 driving programmeThe unnamed automotive group selected the radar stack for vehicles in China, with series-production deliveries scheduled for the fourth quarter of 2027. Arbe said its platform provides 2,304 virtual channels and an AI-ready perception layer.→Sony Semiconductor Solutions and Aramco explore industrial AIAramco will contribute industrial data, infrastructure and operational use cases, while Sony Semiconductor Solutions will provide sensing technologies and edge-AI capabilities. The non-binding collaboration will focus on areas including industrial automation and real-time environmental understanding.→NEURA Robotics and SECO partner to scale European physical AISECO will design, engineer and manufacture computing modules for NEURA’s cognitive robots, including its 4NE1 humanoid platform. The companies also plan to develop industrial data and automation solutions for semiconductor and electronics manufacturing.→UNDP and NEC agree to develop AI for climate resilienceThe collaboration will examine environmental data use, infrastructure resilience, nature-positive development and data-driven agriculture. The parties also identified potential work involving agricultural systems such as CropScope in Ethiopia and a joint technical white paper.→Insilico study reports biological-age signal for AI-designed drug candidateThe study examined 42 patients with idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis and reported lower predicted biological age across six independent proteomic clocks after treatment. The findings are biomarker results and do not establish that the drug reverses ageing or improves longevity.→Jaipur Robotics raises €4.3 million for industrial computer visionThe round was led by EquityPitcher Ventures and High-Tech Gründerfonds. Jaipur Robotics is developing an AI operating system intended to interpret industrial environments and support automation in waste-to-energy facilities.→Google DeepMind details satellite models for Indian agricultureIn an interview reported by The Indian Express, Google DeepMind agriculture lead Alok Talekar described two satellite-based models in the AnthroKrishi team. One maps fields, trees and water from roughly 15 years of imagery, while another tracks sowing and harvesting across 12 crops, with data refreshes ranging from six to 12 months and twice monthly.→Lyte raises $165M to put custom sensing silicon inside physical AILyte announced a $165M Series C led by Maverick Silicon, taking its post-money valuation to $1.6B. Its LyteVision platform combines vision, imaging and inertial sensors with custom silicon to measure motion and deliver synchronised data to robotic systems.→Sayari and Snowflake rebuild a 12-billion-record commercial world modelSayari said the rebuilt platform will connect more than 12 billion records from 715 sources across 250 jurisdictions, including corporate filings, government gazettes and shipping records. The company expects the Snowflake migration to expose up to 75% more useful context from its archive and cut data-infrastructure costs by more than 50%.→Figure and Nscale commit up to 100,000 Vera Rubin GPUs to physical AIThe partnership targets up to 100,000 NVIDIA Vera Rubin GPUs for training and deploying Figure's Helix robotics models, with initial systems planned for the second half of 2027 in Barstow, Texas. Nscale will become Figure's preferred compute provider and a shareholder, but the multiyear commitment is capacity value rather than an upfront payment.→Uber and Wayve begin supervised autonomous passenger rides in LondonThe companies began carrying passengers in fewer than 20 vehicles, with Transport for London allowing up to 15 cars in a one-year trial. The vehicles are licensed as private-hire vehicles, so removing the safety driver would require a separate automated-passenger-services permit that neither company yet holds.→Antioch raises $32M to make simulation the scalable data engine for robot trainingAntioch raised a $32M Series A led by Greylock, with participation from A*, Category Ventures, Box Group and Icehouse Ventures. The company says its platform builds high-fidelity simulations for customer hardware and runs thousands of evaluations in parallel, with Amazon Ring as a disclosed customer and Nvidia and Nebius as partners.→World Labs unveils Atlas, an omni world model for spatial intelligenceWorld Labs introduced Atlas as an omni model pretrained from scratch to operate on text, images, video and 3D through shared spatial context. The company demonstrates camera-controlled generation up to one minute at 1440p, reconstruction from one to dozens of images and space-time simulation for robotics; access is initially limited to selected partners.→OpenAI adds Epic EHR integration to ChatGPT for HealthcareOpenAI introduced a read-only Epic EHR integration that lets authorised clinicians review appointment notes, laboratory results, medications and specialist documentation in ChatGPT for Healthcare. It also launched a Healthcare Public Data plugin for official medical and public-health sources, with access controlled by organisational approval, existing Epic permissions and individual clinician sign-in.→Enovis makes €155 million binding offer for eCential RoboticsEnovis announced a binding offer valuing eCential Robotics at €155 million, with completion expected around the end of 2026 subject to customary approvals. eCential develops robotic-assisted surgery systems and enabling technologies for spine and orthopaedic procedures.→Physical Superintelligence launches $58 million physics-discovery labThe company launched with $58 million in seed funding led by Breakthrough Energy Ventures and described a system called Emmy that builds world models, decomposes research problems into hypotheses and tests them against simulations. Its first commercial focus is optimising terrestrial and orbital AI data centres, while broader claims about discovering new physics remain unverified.→Visko opens Orbis, a real-time interactive world modelVisko announced a $10 million pre-seed round and public access to Orbis, a model that continuously generates interactive video rather than producing a fixed clip. The company reports 4K output at 24 frames per second, persistent memory and physics-grounded generation, but the performance claims have not yet been independently established.→NHS watchdog finds AI scribes recording incorrect diagnoses and medicinesPatients identified cases where AI scribes confused diagnoses, substituted similarly named medicines or omitted prescription instructions that clinicians had missed. Twenty-seven AI scribes are in use across England, while the MHRA does not classify the tools as medical devices for nationwide oversight.→YFORE debuts multimodal in-cabin sensing system for cockpit safetyYFORE debuted an occupant-and-driver monitoring system combining an automotive-grade smart-mirror camera with cabin radar. The company says it covers fatigue, distraction, unresponsive-driver, phone-use and occupant-classification detection, along with life-presence monitoring; the claims have not been independently validated.→Lesotho launches national farmer registry built on an agentic-AI application platformLesotho's Ministry of Agriculture, Food Security and Nutrition launched a national portal consolidating farmer, land, household, livestock and support-service records across all 10 districts. The system uses Joget DX Enterprise, whose supplier describes its agentic-AI platform and LLM-assisted development process as future application headroom rather than claiming that autonomous AI currently makes agricultural decisions.→Yaber brings SenseCleanAI dust detection to a sub-$200 cordless vacuumYaber launched the HP20 cordless vacuum with a SenseCleanAI system that scans floors thousands of times per second and adjusts suction. The release also lists 180 air watts, H13 HEPA filtration and a US$139.99 launch price; the AI performance claims come from the manufacturer.→ICE seeks market information on robot dogs for dangerous operationsA draft ICE specification seeks information on quadruped robots for inspection, situational awareness and hazard assessment, according to Fortune/Bloomberg. The notice signals procurement exploration, not a confirmed purchase or deployment.→Alibaba’s Amap releases ABot-Recon for long-horizon real-time 3D reconstructionABot-Recon uses a fixed local context window and incremental composition rather than maintaining long-range memory anchors. Amap reports 24.45 frames per second on KITTI-02, lower trajectory error on Oxford Spires, and peak memory use of about 6.71GB.→Sapient Intelligence launches PRAXIST Beta for autonomous AI-led R&DThe company reports that PRAXIST achieved the highest-level result in 49 of 75 MLE-Bench competitions at an approximate model cost of US$3,000, compared with 34 results for Claude Code at about US$38,000. Sapient also reports a rocket-landing simulation reaching 100% accuracy within 12 hours, but these results are company-reported and preliminary.→Anthropic previews a hardware standard for AI agentsAnthropic released the Model Hardware Standard, a model-agnostic framework for connecting AI agents to equipment including microscopes, manufacturing machines, quantum hardware and robot arms. The framework builds on MCP and is being shared with partners while Anthropic develops safety evaluations ahead of a planned open-source release.→Generalist raises another $200 million for robot foundation modelsAxios reported that Generalist raised around $200 million in a round led by 8VC, with the company’s federal filing disclosing the financing. Generalist builds models rather than robot hardware and was founded by alumni of Google DeepMind and Boston Dynamics.→Accelerated Understanding unveils a non-Transformer physics AIAccelerated Understanding says its neural-operator system can handle five trillion data points in a single prompt and model physical processes across space and time. The company is targeting chip design, robotics, weather prediction and geological analysis, but the headline capability remains a company claim without independent benchmarking.→Nvidia doubles entry-level edge compute with Jetson Orin Nano 2Jetson Orin Nano 2 provides 78 TOPS of AI compute, 8GB of memory and an eight-core CPU, with Nvidia claiming twice the compute and 40% lower power use than its predecessor in a 15-watt mode. The module and developer kit are scheduled for general availability in the first half of 2027, with drone and industrial-robotics partners already exploring deployments.→NTT demonstrates an interpretable AI-driven lab for semiconductor materialsNTT says its autonomous deposition system accelerated the experiment cycle by about three times and produced a high-quality single-crystal beta-gallium-oxide film using sputtering. The system combines robotic substrate handling, automated optical measurement and Bayesian optimisation, with the stated goal of turning black-box search into transferable scientific knowledge.→XPENG’s robotics arm raises more than US$900 million for humanoid productionThe funding is earmarked for humanoid hardware and software, physical-AI model iteration, data generation, production capacity and international expansion. XPENG targets mass production by the end of 2026, followed by deliveries in China and overseas in 2027.→A planned 100-TB CXL memory system targets scientific AI bottlenecksThe Abaco system is planned to provide more than 100 TB of CXL-attached shared and pooled memory. Its target workloads include scientific AI, high-performance computing and other data-intensive applications that exceed accelerator-local memory capacity.→DeepCura proposes an auditable AI workforce around the EHRThe platform targets reception, scribing, intake, scheduling and inbox work, with actions and chart entries carrying what the company calls receipts. DeepCura says clinicians retain control of consequential decisions and that more than 6,000 clinicians use its platform; those adoption and auditability claims are company-reported.→Galileo unveils a cross-form-factor platform for embodied ground roboticsThe platform is designed to span wheeled autonomous guided vehicles, vehicle and off-road systems, and legged robots. Galileo says it is targeting logistics, inspection, heavy off-road handling and humanoid chassis applications, with open hardware and software interfaces planned for commercialisation.→Signia puts four coordinated neural networks into a new hearing-aid platformThe networks are designed to model speech, noise, environment and the wearer’s own voice. Signia reports 54 times more processing power, 50% greater efficiency and twice the memory on its chip, plus a result in which 97% of wearers performed better than competitors in noisy group conversations; these are vendor-supplied figures.→GALBOT humanoids complete a 100-rally autonomous tennis matchThe company said the robots tracked fast-moving balls, repositioned themselves, selected shots and adapted during play. The demonstration was announced by GALBOT, and independent validation of the result was not provided.→Chinese humanoid robots beat Usain Bolt’s 100-metre markBoth robot times were faster than Usain Bolt’s 9.58-second human world record, while a Unitree robot recorded 12.41 seconds. The result concerns a robot race and does not establish a new human athletics record.→Waymo opens Ojai robotaxis and Gemini cabin assistant to riders in three US citiesGoogle posts on 21 August said riders in those cities could access Ojai, which includes automatic sliding doors, extra legroom, YouTube Music and a dedicated screen. Gemini can answer voice requests for cabin controls and local or route recommendations; it does not drive the vehicle.→Tesla schedules a 3 September Austin Cybercab launch eventThe invitation gives a concrete date for the purpose-built robotaxi's public presentation after Tesla's preparations for Austin operations. The event is a launch milestone, not evidence that fully unsupervised Cybercab service will be broadly available on that date.→TransformativeMed and Red Rover put agentic discharge planning inside Oracle HealthTransformativeMed said its Agentic Clinical Operating System will combine with Red Rover Health's interoperability layer and Model Context Protocol connections to access clinical context and workflow tools. Their first joint project is agentic patient-discharge planning with an academic health system, with a demonstration planned for the Oracle Health Summit in September.→Chest-CT AI workflow moves into a US hospital PACSThe AVIEW platform will analyse chest CT studies for lung-cancer screening and return structured findings inside INFINITT's PACS, including nodule assessment and prior-image comparison. The companies described it as their second North American deployment and said the repeatable integration model is intended to expand to more hospitals.→TIER IV joins OIN 2.0 to reduce patent risk for autonomous-driving softwareTIER IV said OIN 2.0 participation will reduce patent risk for automakers, suppliers and semiconductor companies building on Autoware and related open-source software. The move extends open-source governance beyond code licensing into patent protection for vehicle compute and autonomy ecosystems.→Nuclearn and GSE bring AI into nuclear plant simulation and operator trainingGSE plans to integrate Nuclearn capabilities for natural-language scenario creation, automated performance summaries, adaptive quizzes and plant-specific physics explanations. Nuclearn also plans simulator-informed risk analysis, engineering-modification sandboxes, drift detection and support for evaluating new reactor designs; the announcement describes planned capabilities, not completed deployment.→Mednet launches an NCI-funded AI trial-matching tool with SWOG evaluationTrialMatch matches patient profiles against open trials using factors including diagnosis, stage, biomarkers and location, and provides match rationales and enrolment links. The NCI SBIR/STTR-funded project includes a prospective SWOG evaluation of whether AI-assisted matching improves physician awareness and patient enrolment; Mednet says the tool is available at no cost to its physician community.→Google adds interactive study tools across Search and GeminiGoogle announced interactive visuals, 3D simulations, a student hub and customised practice quizzes across Search and Gemini, TechCrunch reported. Google also said Lens will gain an interactive learning experience, while Gemini users will be able to create custom study tools and simulations through prompts.→Unitree shares soar in Shanghai humanoid-robot debutUnitree shares rose as much as 629% in their Shanghai trading debut, AP reported. The company raised about 6.1 billion yuan, or roughly $904 million, and its shares closed 460% above the IPO price.→China opens World Robot Conference with 3,000 products on displayChina opened the 2026 World Robot Conference, where about 3,000 robotic products are being shown over five days, AP reported. The exhibition includes Unitree humanoids and robot dogs demonstrating boxing, dancing and table tennis.→TerraPower plans an AI data-centre project around flexible nuclear powerTechCrunch, citing Bloomberg, reported that TerraPower plans to announce its first data-centre project in 2026 and expects construction to begin in 2027, although no customer was named. Its Natrium design combines a 345MW reactor with molten-salt storage intended to provide additional power during demand peaks.→Smack raises $61 million to bring domain-specific AI to the tactical edgeSmack Technologies said it raised $61 million in a Series B led by Costanoa Ventures and First In, bringing total capital above $90 million. It said the funding will expand its Omega strategic-planning platform and Alpha tactical platform, including proprietary hardware for deployment in communications- and compute-constrained environments.→Aiva says its nursing assistant can control more than 40 hospital IT systemsAiva said its nursing assistant now uses ChatGPT for Healthcare, Claude for Healthcare and Gemini Enterprise behind one voice interface for more than 40 hospital IT systems. The company cited integrations with Epic, Oracle Health and ServiceNow, alongside clinical reference, communication, nutrition and smart-room functions; the release provides no independent clinical evaluation.→Synthefy launches structured-data foundation models with a $6.5 million seed roundSynthefy said its Structured Data Foundation Models are designed for numbers, tables, transactions and signals rather than language, and announced the 30-million-parameter Nori-30M model. The company reported that Nori-30M-thinking surpassed a larger Google TabFM model on public regression benchmarks and that Wing Venture Capital led a $6.5 million seed round.→Rocket One launches AI swarm-threat emulation for counter-drone testingRocket One said its Swarm Stage AI platform is now available to U.S. military and defence organisations for counter-UAS training, testing and evaluation. The company said the underlying technology has coordinated thousands of synchronised aircraft, but the announcement describes availability and demonstrations rather than an independent assessment of military performance.→SoftBank invests $200 million in construction-robotics company GravisGravis Robotics raised $200 million in Series A funding from SoftBank, according to Axios Pro Rata. The company develops autonomous construction robots and earthmoving systems.→OpenAI rolls ChatGPT Health out to US adultsHealth in ChatGPT can connect supported medical records and Apple Health data to provide answers grounded in a user’s personal context. OpenAI says connected health information and related conversations are not used to train its foundation models, and the product is not intended for diagnosis or treatment.→Nvidia’s Jetson platform is headed for lunar roboticsLunar Outpost says its next rover will use Jetson chips to process lidar and other sensor data while exploring difficult lunar terrain. The company is evaluating the platform for low-power autonomy in an environment exposed to radiation and extreme temperature changes.→Industrial automation challenge demands physics-grounded reasoningThe Industrial Automation Challenge requires models to use structured industrial context, including Failure Mode and Effects Analysis, to produce causal maintenance narratives. It includes both native-model reasoning and agentic tool-augmented tracks.→AI-enabled biology is broadening the biosecurity threat modelAxios reported on research in which AI helped design synthetic viruses able to infect and kill E. coli, while substantial manual laboratory work remained necessary. The same reporting notes that these tools could support biodefence as well as increase biological risk.→AI-enabled biology is intensifying concerns about accidental pathogen releasesRecent work has demonstrated AI-assisted design of synthetic viruses able to infect and kill E. coli, while experts warn that AI may allow less-experienced actors to navigate complex biological experiments. The same tools could also improve biodefence, and substantial laboratory and physical barriers remain.→