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Unveiling The Grid: PCBs made in America, twice as fast as Shenzhen
CircuitHub unveils The Grid, the factory-scale robot in Massachusetts it has run for five years: levitating movers carry each board between paste, placement, reflow and inspection machines, scheduled by learned models and agents, so high-mix PCB assembly needs no changeovers. An example motor-controller order arrives in 4 days for $630 versus 9 days from Shenzhen.
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Zero-Shot to New Robots: Introducing Dream-1
Dream Labs comes out of stealth with $90M in seed funding and releases Dream-1, a World Action Model offered through a public API that controls bimanual parallel-gripper robots it was never trained on, zero-shot, from $3/hour, with fine-tuning-as-a-service for robots further from its training data and a candid look at its limits.
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Neural chip decodes interactions between brain regions
EPFL researchers led by Mahsa Shoaran built LogSync, a low-power implantable neural chip that measures synchrony across brain regions and classifies cognitive and emotional states in real time, a step toward closed-loop deep brain stimulation for psychiatric illness. Distributed under CC BY-SA 4.0.
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Frontier Models for Every Robot: Announcing our API beta
Physical Intelligence opens a beta of the Pi API, letting robotics developers upload data, fine-tune its latest robot foundation models on managed compute and run cloud-hosted inference on their own hardware, and shares results from early partners deploying it across different tasks, robots and industries.
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Oxide Computer Company announces a $445M Series D, opening with the milestone that ordinary operations made it pay income tax this spring, and explains why a profitable hardware company still raises: to keep accepting new demand, expand manufacturing capacity and build an enduring company.
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Raspberry Pi Desktop now available for PC and Mac
Simon Long announces an updated Debian Trixie with Raspberry Pi Desktop image for PCs and Macs, including a Raspberry Pi Connect client, and recounts how the x86 version began as a 2016 side project after Eben Upton asked whether the desktop could run on his Mac.
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eth68: Ethernet Audio Interface for Linux
eth68 is an Ethernet audio interface for Linux: bare-metal STM32H7 firmware that emulates a netJACK1 master endpoint, aiming for low-latency networked audio without a traditional USB audio gadget.
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CHOMPI portable sampler is now open-source
CHOMPI Sampler Reference Hub Open Source Intro to CHOMPI Open Source This is a discontinuation open-source release: a permanent source for the files and documentation related to CHOMPI. To customize it, clone the repo into your own GitHub. While we won’t be doing any more file updates, the CHOMPI Club will live on in the Chase Bliss Discord](https://discord.gg/q3KcumMcBB). Check out the CHOMPI Open Source channel to discuss the project, share what you make, and see what others have made on their
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Modal Clusters are generally available
Modal announces general availability of Modal Clusters: multi-node GPU clusters with RDMA networking, gang scheduled from its shared capacity pool and billed by the second, enabled with a single @modal.clustered decorator for distributed training, post-training and large-scale inference.
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OpenAI and Synopsys Announce GPT-Synopsys: Frontier Intelligence to Revolutionize Chip Design
OpenAI and Synopsys partner on a multi-year GPT-Synopsys model that natively operates Synopsys EDA tools for agentic chip design, with revenue sharing, enterprise data controls, and early customer engagements.
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AMD to Acquire World Labs to Advance the Future of AI Compute
AMD announces a definitive agreement to acquire Fei-Fei Li’s World Labs, bringing spatial AI researchers and models in-house to shape future AI hardware, software, and systems.
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World Labs announces a definitive agreement to join AMD, arguing that scale, reach, and closer hardware partnership are needed to accelerate spatial and physical AI research.
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Behind Project Suncatcher, our moonshot to put AI in space
Google Research outlines Project Suncatcher: a moonshot exploring solar-powered ML infrastructure in space, and the engineering facts behind the idea.
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Introducing Bonsai 2 27B: Near-Lossless Compression in a 9x Smaller Footprint
PrismML introduces Bonsai 2 27B, a near-lossless compression of a 27B-class multimodal model into roughly a 9× smaller footprint aimed at efficient on-device and local inference.
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Introducing CUDA Rust: Two Tracks for Writing GPU Kernels
In September 2026, NVIDIA announced it is leaning into native GPU programming in Rust. CUDA C++ and CUDA Python are mature, enterprise-grade toolchains, and NVIDIA will be growing and maturing CUDA Rust into 2027 and beyond The systems layer of AI spans inference engines, serving infrastructure, drivers, and agent runtimes, and it churns constantly as models and techniques change. More and more of it is written in Rust, which catches whole classes of bugs at compile time…
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