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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.→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.→Synopsys introduces long-horizon agents for chip-to-system engineeringThe domain-specific agents are designed to reason, plan and execute workflows spanning verification, validation, implementation, manufacturing, simulation and analysis. Synopsys said the platform supports its own, partner and third-party models, infrastructure, tools and agents through an open architecture.→Spain reports its first notified breach allegedly executed by an AI agentThe Spanish Data Protection Agency said it received the first reported notification of a personal-data breach allegedly carried out by an AI agent using a widely known large language model. The agency said the case remains under review and that neither the model nor its provider infrastructure was compromised.→Perplexity uses GPT-6 Astra for end-to-end software changes, testing and production monitoringOpenAI says Perplexity uses GPT-6 Astra to write communications, edit software, monitor production systems and emulate language-model APIs or connectors for testing. The account is a vendor-published customer case study with no independent benchmark data.→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.→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.→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.→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.→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.→