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Procore to Acquire DroneDeploy for $845M to Add Robots, Drones to Construction Software Platform
Insider Brief Procore Technologies agreed to acquire DroneDeploy for about $845 million in cash, adding drones, ground robots and visual-intelligence tools to its construction software platform. The companies plan to combine Procore’s project data with DroneDeploy’s aerial and ground imagery so AI systems can document progress, identify problems and initiate actions on jobsites. DroneDeploy is…
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SeoulTech Researchers Develop AI-Designed Footpads that Cut Quadruped Robot Energy Use
Insider Brief SeoulTech researchers developed 3D-printed footpads and an AI controller that reduced a quadruped robot’s battery use by as much as 6.2% while maintaining stable movement. The porous diamond-pattern footpads absorb impact energy when the robot steps and release it during push-off, while deep reinforcement learning adjusts the gait to reduce motor effort. Tests…
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EU Begins Enforcing AI Act as Transparency Rules Take Effect
Insider Brief The European Union began enforcing key AI Act provisions on Aug. 2, requiring disclosure when users interact with AI and labels or machine-readable markings for certain AI-generated and manipulated content. General-purpose AI providers must document their models, adopt copyright policies, publish training-content summaries and address systemic risks, while the law also prohibits manipulative…
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American Rheinmetall Awarded US Army Contract for Autonomous Supply Ground Vehicles
Insider Brief American Rheinmetall received an 18-month U.S. Army contract to develop hybrid-powered autonomous ground vehicles for transporting supplies in contested environments. The Project Sustainment effort will combine Harbinger’s commercial hybrid chassis, Forterra’s autonomous-driving technology and Primordial Labs’ voice-controlled Anura interface. The vehicles are intended to support company-sized units with limited human involvement, reduce risks…
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Unitree Warns US Robot Restrictions Could Limit Growth Ahead of Shanghai IPO
Insider Brief Unitree Technology warned that new U.S. restrictions on foreign-made advanced robots could limit access to a major market and constrain overseas growth as it prepares for a Shanghai IPO, Reuters reported. Unitree said existing U.S.-authorized models can remain on sale, but future robots could be blocked and additional tariffs or withdrawn approvals could…
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MIT Method Helps Robots Think Ahead and Move Faster
Insider Brief MIT researchers developed VLASH, a method that lets robots plan their next movements while completing current actions, cutting pauses and doubling task speeds in some tests. The system predicts a robot’s future state so vision-language-action models can prepare the next action sequence without relying on stale observations, accelerating reaction times more than 30-fold.…
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Anthropic Discloses Claude Security Breaches as Judge Casts Doubt on Pentagon’s “Supply-Chain Risk” Ban
Anthropic said Thursday that an internal investigation found three incidents in which its Claude models breached the systems of outside organizations during cybersecurity testing, disclosed roughly a week after OpenAI revealed a similar breach involving Hugging Face. Anthropic said the breaches traced back to a misconfigured testing environment run with partner Irregular, which mistakenly allowed…
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The Future of AI Token Economics
Sam Altman said it plainly earlier this year: intelligence is becoming a utility, like electricity or water, and people will buy it from OpenAI on a meter. If that vision holds, the token, the small chunk of text or data an AI model reads or writes, may become the defining unit of the AI age…
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British AI Cloud Provider Nscale to Acquire Anyscale for $1.65B
British AI neocloud Nscale is acquiring software startup Anyscale for $1.65 billion, according to a Bloomberg report citing an anonymous source, as the company looks to capture more of its customers’ AI spending. Anyscale, built by the team behind the open-source Ray distributed programming framework, originally focused on high-performance computing before pivoting toward AI workload…
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Okta to Acquire AI Identity Security Startup Permiso Security for Nearly $200M
Okta has agreed to acquire AI identity security startup Permiso Security, betting that demand for protecting AI agents and other machine identities will grow as enterprises deploy more autonomous software. Okta did not disclose deal terms, but a source familiar with the matter said the acquisition is valued at just under $200 million and structured…
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