AI

XPENG IRON Humanoid Robot Raises $900M
XPENG's physical AI unit secured over $900 million at a $6.3 billion valuation to scale its IRON humanoid robot platform.

Harvey Tenet: Legal AI Model Research Preview
Harvey Tenet, a post-trained Kimi K3, excels in legal agent benchmarks. Research preview only, no public release.

Waymo Doubles Lobbying Spend in Robotaxi Battle with Uber
Waymo doubled its lobbying spending to over $1M in Q2, intensifying the robotaxi battle with Uber, filings show.

Grok Data Exfiltration via Encrypted Prompt Attack
Researchers at Adversa devised a cryptographic context injection attack that tricks Grok into leaking user data despite guardrails.

A Third of ChatGPT Ads Appear in Irrelevant Conversations
Searchable's analysis of 11,000 ChatGPT ads found 33% unrelated to the conversation, with 68% in chats without purchase intent.

Auditing Preference Biases and Fine-Tuning Language Models with Direct Preference Optimization on Anthropic HH-RLHF Using TRL and LoRA
A tutorial on auditing preference biases and fine-tuning language models with DPO on Anthropic HH-RLHF using TRL and LoRA.

Amazon Trashing Rare Books to Train AI: Hidden Airtag Proof
A bookseller's hidden Airtag tracked bulk rare book orders to an Amazon AI training facility, confirming destructive scanning.

Zhipu GLM-5.3 Cybersecurity Claims Scrutinized
Zhipu's GLM-5.3 leads one cyber benchmark but trails on exploit tests. A deep dive into the numbers.

DeepSeek Harness Developer Preview Released
DeepSeek releases DeepSeek Harness v0.1 in developer preview, an MIT-licensed agent harness where everything is a plugin, built on the Cordis kernel.

OpenAI and Anthropic in price war as Chinese AI rivals gain ground
OpenAI and Anthropic cut prices as Chinese rivals like DeepSeek and Moonshot gain ground, with token prices down nearly 25% since mid-July.

Inside WeatherNext's Strategic AI Impact
Google DeepMind's WeatherNext model improves hurricane forecasting by a day, marking a major shift in climate predictive tech.
