At CoRL 2026, Fei-Fei Li presented World Labs' Atlas world model alongside AMD CEO Lisa Su, their first joint public appearance since AMD announced its $8.2 billion acquisition of World Labs. The article examines what Atlas actually delivers and why AMD considers the research team and its world-model roadmap worth the price.
Amazon's roaming Ring Robotics devices will debut in late 2026 and early 2027.
Each of the seven co-founders plans to sell exactly the same number of shares in the IPO, which would bring each of them about $250 million in cash at the midpoint of the price range while leaving the group in control of the company.
Mathematician Steven Strogatz discusses his new book, Big Math: The Hidden Codes That Run Our World.
New York is preparing to enforce its sweeping AI safety law, requiring major developers like OpenAI and Anthropic to register, disclose safety practices, and report critical incidents or face fines.
OpenAI has not yet said what its plans are for the future of travel. But Sonder founder Francis Davidson is a well-known figure in the travel industry.
Researcher finds 35,000 Grok Build apps wide open to anyone who looked for them.
Google DeepMind has released Gemini Robotics 2.5, with Apptronik's Apollo 2 humanoid achieving a 96% success rate sorting auto parts on Mercedes-Benz's active production lines. The model makes major gains on dexterity tasks, but the remaining 4% failure rate and a partner-only rollout show how far it still is from a plug-and-play platform product.
Anthropic has launched the roadshow for its Class A common stock IPO, offering 825 million shares at $70–$78 each and targeting a fully diluted valuation of up to $1.4 trillion. Its public benefit corporation structure and multi-class voting arrangements raise unusual governance questions for public investors.
WDCD Run #422 (2026-11-11) evaluated 15 large language models across three rounds of multi-turn commitment testing, recording an average instruction decay of -66.7% between Round 1 and Round 3. Claude Sonnet 4.6 took the top spot with 93.9 points, followed by Gemini 3.1 Pro and GPT-6 Sol.
OpenAI is looking to make ChatGPT a more robust consumer discovery engine, and a host of new features seek to empower businesses to help it do that.
PSI used an unreleased Anthropic model to answer a fundamental question about quantum computing that scientists have pursued for nearly two decades.
The deal comes a few weeks after Oura postponed its up to $2.2 billion IPO indefinitely, citing “uncertainty in the IPO market.”
The 2026-11-11 YZ Index Smoke Quick Test covered 13 models, with Claude Opus 4.7 ranking first for the day at 79.56. Smoke is a daily 10-question quick test suited to short-term signals and is not equivalent to conclusions from the Full weekly ranking.
The affair could have ramifications for national security as the U.S. and China race to develop the most advanced AI infrastructure.
As participants talk, Claude can draft the plan being discussed, map out a timeline on a whiteboard, answer questions in the meeting chat, and access connected work apps to retrieve information, such as last year's figures.
The new model is up to twice as successful at some tasks.
Users can now interact with Meta’s AI assistant through voice calls, text messages, or dictation on their Apple Watch.
Google's new tensor processing units (TPUs) broaden its chip portfolio to more use cases: confidential model training and more memory capacity.
The metals industry has experienced transformational moments before: the Bessemer process, flash smelting, electric arc furnaces, and modern continuous casting all changed what was possible. Yet, for more than a century, most extraction processes rely on techniques and pathways that would be familiar to metallurgists from generations ago. Processes have become larger and control systems…
