Tether Bets On Humanoid Robots, Backing Neura’s New Neuron AI Brain
Neura Robotics launched Neuron AI, a foundation model for physical robots, backed by financing that includes Tether, Qualcomm and other infrastructure firms.
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ModelScope’s EntroPack Lets 80GB Models Squeeze Onto 24GB GPUs
EntroPack Lets: GPU memory compression: ModelScope released EntroPack, a PyTorch library letting developers tune AI model weight storage to fit tighter GPU memory budgets.
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Anthropic Opens Fifth Asia-Pacific Hub, Signs Singapore AI Safety Pact
Anthropic opened a Singapore office, its fifth in Asia-Pacific, and signed a government memorandum on AI safety and responsible adoption.
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EU Forces OpenAI’s ChatGPT To Mark AI Content, But Detection Gap Remains
The European Commission finalized its Code of Practice on marking AI-generated content under the EU AI Act, setting transparency rules for providers.
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Fish Audio’s Drama 3 Preview Tops Open Speech Chart, Fixes Pronunciation Flaw
Open Speech: Fish Audio’s Drama 3 Preview became the top open-weights text-to-speech model on Artificial Analysis’s leaderboard, leading pronunciation tests too.
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Freehand’s AI Agents NOW Pay Invoices Alone, No Human Gate, Via Stripe
AI Agents: Freehand launched Freehand Pay, letting its AI finance agents audit, approve and settle invoices end to end using Stripe-backed payment rails.
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Liquid AI Bets On Privacy With 24B On-Device Model, Skips Benchmark Claims
Liquid AI released LFM2.5-24B-A2B on Hugging Face, a mixture-of-experts model built to run private AI agents directly on-device.
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Canada Triples Down On AI Sovereignty With $500M Boost To $700M Fund
Canada expanded its Regional Artificial Intelligence Initiative by $500 million, bringing total federal AI commercialization funding to $700 million.
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Google’s Gemini 4 Argon Matches Rival Costs, Runs Tasks 60% Cheaper
Google DeepMind’s Gemini 4 Argon is now generally available, matching a rival flagship model on intelligence while costing 60% less per task through Nov. 30.
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Ripple Targets AI Agent Payments, Bets Stripe-Owned Privy Wallets On XRP Ledger
Ripple announced a partnership with Stripe-owned Privy on Oct. 13 to bring embedded wallets to the XRP Ledger for payments and agent commerce.
