📰 News Gemini 3.8 Flash Arrives Three Weeks After the Last Flash Model
Google's third Flash release in six weeks claims best-in-class coding at $0.75 per million input tokens. The Pro model Google promised still hasn't shown up.
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📰 News XTEND goes public this week: the battlefield drone company betting Wall Street wants remote robotics
The Israeli firm's all-stock merger with JFB Construction closes September 3, with XTND shares expected to start trading on the NYSE September 4 — a test of whether defence robotics can sustain a listed valuation.
📰 News SEER Robotics' first report card as a listed company: revenue up 67.5 per cent, overseas orders up 550
The Shanghai 'Robot Brain' maker listed on Hong Kong's exchange in June. Its first half-year results suggest the embodied intelligence bet is starting to pay — especially outside China.
📰 News A Third of Perplexity's Citations Don't Say What They're Cited For
Researchers checked every source Perplexity's search models cited across 310 factual questions. One citation in three failed a test a reader could run with a browser — and a quarter of the cited pages have no archived copy anywhere.
📰 News OpenAI Says Astra Has Hit Its Critical Cyber Threshold — and It's Releasing It Anyway
Astra scored 100 per cent on ExploitBench and can chain exploits together. OpenAI paused it, added guardrails, and is now releasing it anyway — with the uncut version going to Cisco, Cloudflare and Palo Alto Networks first.
📰 News Wellington's Mayor Says 'Large Chunks' of a $435,000 Deloitte Report Were Written by AI
The mayor of Wellington says 'large chunks' of a $435,000 consultant report on council staffing were written by AI — the latest chapter in a report already corrected for double-counted staff and a $21.5 million error. Deloitte stands by its work.
📰 News 1,664 Real-World AI Loss-of-Control Incidents Logged This Year — and the Severe Ones Are Rising Fastest
A UK think tank's observatory has logged 1,664 real-world AI loss-of-control incidents this year, most involving deployed agents in active business use. Severe incidents rose 7.4-fold — and the proposed fix is regulation, not research.
📰 News Nori's $1,688 Humanoid Is a Bet That Robot Developers Need Cheap Hardware, Not Better Demos
A YC S26 startup is selling a 19-DOF mobile humanoid for $1,688 — roughly 3 per cent of typical humanoid pricing. The Hacker News launch thread shows developers are asking the right questions about what it can actually do.
📰 News Mech-Mind's Hong Kong Debut Priced at the Top — and Got a 3,835x Oversubscription
Mech-Mind Robotics, the industrial 3D vision company behind the 'eye-brain-hand' stack used by CATL, BYD and Foxconn, listed in Hong Kong at the top of its range with a HK$12.7 billion market cap.
📰 News The Price of an AI Token Just Hit an All-Time Low
The market rate for an LLM token has more than halved since summer. Cheap Chinese models, OpenAI's price cuts and dynamic pricing are deflating the one number every AI company's revenue depends on.
📰 News World Labs' Atlas Is a World Model That Learns Space, Not Just Words
Atlas generates up to a minute of 1440p video with pixel-perfect camera control and reconstructs real scenes in explicit 3D from just a few images. It will power the next version of Marble — and robotics simulation.
📰 News Cerebras Locks In 165 MW in Finland — AI Infrastructure With the Heating Included
A phased 50→165 MW build in Mikkeli, contracted before construction. The interesting part isn't the megawatts — it's that Finnish planners treated AI compute as a heating utility.