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The fridge-sized prototype carries four TPUs and runs on solar power, but the chips must shut down every 15 minutes to cool off.

The Information reports Anthropic is considering a Palantir-style share structure giving its seven co-founders 50.1% voting power on most corporate matters.

Sakana AI announced that Jürgen Schmidhuber, known as the father of modern AI, will join part-time as chief scientific advisor and work with its RSI Lab, with a public event in Tokyo in late October.

Google partnered with Planet to launch a prototype satellite carrying four TPUs and will test how well the chips withstand space conditions to assess hosting machine learning in orbit.

Google DeepMind chief Koray Kavukcuoglu said the company trusts AI agents to autonomously conduct experiments, analyze results and propose new hypotheses under human supervision, something he said wasn't happening six months ago.

The Information reports Anthropic is negotiating for up to 1 gigawatt of data center capacity, an investment that could require at least $40 billion, with direct leasing giving it more chip control and less reliance on cloud providers.

A research preview puts up to 20 humans and AI agents in the same generated scene, where each action changes what everyone else sees in real time.

Odyssey trained its two-model world simulator on real gameplay footage and player inputs, with humans and AI bots that chase them sharing one map.

Sakana AI announced that Schmidhuber, a pioneer of meta-learning and recursive self-improvement, is joining as chief scientific advisor.

Tencent chief AI scientist Yao Shunyu now also heads the AI Data department, putting the company's models, infrastructure, data and evaluation under his unified management.

According to The Information, DeepSeek's revenue doubled mainly through price increases, with a planned STAR Market raise of about $7.45B, while Liang Wenfeng says over 70% of compute still goes to training.

Unpacking the APK revealed Optimus Gen 3 renders with a fully enclosed body and actuators moved to the forearms, alongside in-app home data consent and charging protocols, while suppliers have received orders for about 5,000 parts sets.