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Washington tightened export rules and imposed tariffs on drones and robot components, citing national security. Analysts say China’s cost and production advantages—22,000 humanoids shipped H1 2026 per Counterpoint—may push Chinese firms to expand outside the U.S., fragmenting the market.
Caterpillar is using decades of automation experience from mining to deploy AI across jobsites and enterprise tools, CTO Jaime Mineart said. The company reports 1.6 million connected assets, 16 petabytes of data and will spend $100 million over five years to train 118,000 employees.
Sony Music Publishing, Warner Chappell and other publishers sued Anthropic and co‑founders Dario Amodei and Benjamin Mann in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California, alleging illegal torrenting and scraping to train Claude. The complaint cites millions of pirated books, inclu
Firecrawl has launched the Firecrawl Developer Index, a curated index of more than 70 million coding artifacts. According to Firecrawl, the index offers the highest recall of any coding-specific index and is live at /v2/search/developer on API, CLI and MCP.
Maritime offers a cloud deployment platform that runs OpenClaw, ZeroClaw and custom AI agents in isolated, persistent VMs. The company says it handles infrastructure, scaling and automatic sleep/wake, with plans starting at $1 per agent per month.
On August 25, 2026 OpenAI introduced the Admin plugin for ChatGPT Work and Codex to centralize workspace analytics, member management, permissions and usage controls. OpenAI says the plugin maps authorized instructions to supported read/write actions and preserves existing roles.
After recent earnings, investors are reassessing Nvidia’s lead as the company moves from standalone GPUs to integrated racks like the Vera Rubin architecture. Engineers say its Vera CPU and related hardware aim to improve data orchestration and reduce bottlenecks.
OpenAI notified SpaceX that it intends to wind down the contract providing OpenAI models to Cursor, proposing a shutoff date of November 12, 2026. The company cited concerns about SpaceX’s compliance with OpenAI’s terms following prior contract breaches by Elon Musk’s companies.
Cohere has launched Parse 5, a document vision parsing model that turns unstructured images and documents into structured data for downstream AI agents and applications. The model supports OCR, tables, diagrams, images and visual grounding with bounding boxes in nine languages and can be deployed vi
OpenAI reported first measured results for Jalapeño, its custom inference chip, showing higher throughput per kilowatt and lower token latency on InferenceX with GPT‑OSS 120B. The company also described a multi-vendor compute portfolio and Project Camellia data-center plans.