aiupdates.online https://validator.w3.org/feed/docs/rss2.html Hugging Face Leaders Question AI Evaluation Standards and Netflix’s Portrayal of Rogue Agents U.S. Orders Federal Agencies to Remove DeepSeek AI Products Over National Security Concerns YGO Announces €8M Series A to Build AI Infrastructure Layer for Travel Industry Meta’s Muse AI Agent Hits 10M U.S. Downloads in First 40 Days CoreWeave Launches Physical AI Templates for Robotics and AV Development Anthropic Faces Scrutiny Over Investor Stakes, Cloud Strains and Draft AI Safety Bill Ahead of Expected IPO OpenAI Adds Locked Chats to ChatGPT and Acquires Orchestra Bio to Strengthen Life Sciences AI IBM Ventures Backs Leena AI to Scale Agentic AI for Enterprise Back Offices Italy’s Generative Bionics Plans Physical AI Data Factory Network for Industrial Humanoids Sam Altman’s three endings for the AI safety race ‘Humanoids Making Humanoids’ as Schaeffler Opens Lighthouse Factory in China AI Companion Tolan Secures $30M as It Gains Traction in a Crowded Field AWS Takes Aim at Nvidia’s PyTorch Advantage While Nvidia Expands Open-Weight Nemotron Models for Agents Otter.ai Raises $320M From General Catalyst’s Customer Value Fund to Expand Enterprise AI Atombeam Announces $18.3M in Funding, Bringing Total Capital Raised to Over $55M  Microsoft Adds Guardian Agents to Treat Enterprise AI Agents as Potential Insider Threats Anthropic and Nscale Reportedly Near Second $45B AI Compute Deal Inovia Capital Secures $200M First Close for AI-Focused Sixth Venture Fund Eka Robotics Raises $150M Series A to Scale Vision-Force-Action Model for Dexterous Robots Anthropic co-founder says the singularity is underway Meta Drops Commercial Terms Language That Sparked AI Training and Scraping Concerns Disney Agrees to Hire Majority of Character.AI Workforce Following Chatbot Startup’s Bankruptcy Kapital to Acquire AI Coding Startup Woz in $30M Deal to Boost Financial AI Capabilities Zap Surgical Raises $36M in Funding to Scale Non-Invasive Robotic Brain Surgery Anthropic’s Claude Designs More Efficient Quantum Circuits With Automated Feedback Ten National AI Strategies Compared: Who Is Building, Who Is Stuck Dream Labs Raises $90M in Seed Funding to Build Foundation Models for Any Robot Germany Signs Agreement with Nvidia to Develop Advanced Industrial and Physical AI Skyfall AI Unveils Frontier Engineering World Model SKY-001 Anthropic designs a pay package for the public AI Weekly Issue #540: AI is finding software flaws faster than teams can fix them AiMOGA to Open Global Pre-Orders for Mobo Home Humanoid Robot Canada’s Promise Robotics Signs Multi-Year Deal With US Homebuilder DR Horton for Robotic Homebuilding AI Weekly Issue #539: AI-made midterm ads top $137 million, and 70% carry no AI label Amazon’s Panos Panay Bets on Ambient AI Over Apps as the Future of Personal Computing Meta Releases Muse Spark Open, an 816B-Parameter Open-Weight AI Model Built to Run on Macs RapidCanvas Announces $29M Series B to Move Enterprise AI From Pilots to Production Gudea Pitches AI “Storm Tracker” for Online Narratives at TechCrunch Disrupt Following $7M Seed Round Modal Secures $750M Series D at $15.75B Valuation After Passing $1B Run Rate Waymo Plans Toronto Robotaxi Launch in 2028 Fragment Raises $12M Series A to Turn Agents into Financial Operators Figma Debuts Specs Editor to Keep AI Agents On-Brand at First Config India Event Anthropic Grants METR Researchers Employee-Level Access for Independent AI Risk Assessments Meta turns Mac into an AI supercomputer China’s RoboParty Launches Open-Source RP1 Humanoid for Robotics Research Italy’s Fincantieri to Invest Nearly $100M in Robotics, Physical AI for Shipyards Origin Raises $20M to Scale Autonomous Construction Robots Amazon’s Bee Debuts Two New AI Wearables to Turn Conversations Into Actions Zenzap Announces $44M in Funding to Bring AI-Powered Workplace Messaging to Frontline Teams Labelbox Closes $100M+ in Series E Funding to Advance Reinforcement Learning and Enterprise AI Agents