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Helix 2 is a single neural system that can control a full humanoid robot body directly from pixels. It enables continuous, room-scale autonomy that seamlessly blends walking and manipulation. This article details what Helix 2 is capable of. It contains several clips of the Figure 03 robot performing tasks while running on the new system.
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Let's face it: vibe coding has resulted in a lot of demos, but not a lot of software. With v0 by Vercel [8], that's no longer the case. v0 is built for production apps and agents, including enterprise-grade security and integrations that enable teams to reliably ship real
The new 'meta name=text-scale' HTML tag informs browsers that websites are designed to still work if users increase their OS text size. To support text scaling, developers should avoid overriding the initial font size, only use font-relative units for content, and test on devices to quickly figure out problem areas and think about how to adapt their layouts. The tag is currently supported in Chrome Canary with the 'Experimental Web Platform features' flag enabled. Support in other browsers will hopefully come later this year.
Amazon erroneously sent out a notice to cloud staffers on Tuesday acknowledging organizational changes at the company. The company is expected to announce widespread layoffs across its corporate workforce as soon as this week. The layoffs are meant to reduce management layers and bureaucracy inside the company. The efficiency gains from AI will likely further shrink Amazon's corporate staff count in the coming years.
A high-profile lawsuit against Meta and YouTube that alleges the companies caused psychological harm by designing features like infinite scroll and autoplay is set to begin this week. The case could set a meaningful precedent for hundreds of other complaints. TikTok and Snapchat were also targeted by the lawsuit, but both have settled. The lawsuit seeks untold damages, including potentially punitive damages, to help the plaintiff's family recoup losses and to punish social media companies and deter them from promoting harmful features to kids.
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The subscriptions will give paid users access to more features and extended AI capabilities.
Claude frees up mental capacity and increases your capacity for getting interrupted.
Pinterest expects the cuts to be complete by late September.
Claude will refuse to answer questions about pages if they contain a specific string.
Mozilla will deploy roughly $1.4 billion worth of reserves to support startups that are working on safety and governance issues in AI.
Tether's to USAT is a stablecoin designed to be compliant with US regulations.
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Agent A finished, Agent B is waiting, Agent C failed halfway through, and you have no idea what state your system is in. Building agents truly is just the tip of the iceberg.
OpenAI's Prism is a free collaborative scientific writing platform powered by GPT-5.2. It integrates LaTeX-native writing, revision, and publishing workflows in one workspace, aiming to streamline and accelerate research.
Kimi K2.5 is a multimodal model capable of visual reasoning, code generation from UI and video inputs, and agentic task orchestration using a swarm-based architecture. It's built on 15T vision-language tokens through continual pretraining.
Google Search now features Gemini 3 as the default AI model for enhanced AI Overviews, enabling users to find detailed answers quickly. Users can seamlessly engage in follow-up conversations with AI Mode directly from these overviews for more in-depth inquiries. These upgrades aim to provide a fluid search experience, combining quick snapshots with the option for deeper exploration.
An INT4 quantization-aware training pipeline that enables rollout of ~1TB-scale models on a single H200 GPU. By combining fake quantization during training with real quantization at inference, it achieves BF16-level stability and opens a path to cost-efficient, high-performance deployment.
The "DeepSeek Moment" predicted to trigger an AI Winter turned out to be minor, with NVIDIA's stock quickly recovering from an initial 17% drop. DeepSeek influenced a shift towards cheap, open-source AI models, particularly benefiting China. The upcoming 'V4' model from DeepSeek could further impact the balance in AI advancements, especially with the US and China navigating tensions over NVIDIA chip sales.
OpenAI is planning to take two approaches to monetizing its free tier: classic intent-based ad formats and affiliate fees on native checkout. Long term, the Ads opportunity for the company is massive and could even be a Google, Meta, or TikTok scale opportunity. A shift to advertising to agents could change the fundamental nature of what ads look like. The winning ads will probably work less to persuade humans and look more like offers that make the user better off.
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Context graphs aren't retrieval systems; they're production world models. They allow you to ask "what breaks if I merge this PR?" so you can fix defects _before_ they hit production. PlayerZero [12] builds these production world models so your AI actually understands how systems behave.
The Kimi Agent SDK is a set of multi-language libraries that expose the Kimi Code agent runtime in applications. It can be used to build products, automations, and custom tooling. The SDK clients reuse the same Kimi CLI configuration, tools, and MCP servers to stream responses in real-time, surface approvals and tool calls, and let users orchestrate sessions programmatically. Go, Node.js, and Python are supported.
DeepSeek-OCR 2 is a significant upgrade to DeepSeek-OCR. It maintains high visual token compression while achieving meaningful performance improvements. The model is powered by DeepEncoder V2, which implicitly distills causal understanding of the visual world through the integration of both bidirectional and causal attention mechanisms. This leads to causal reasoning capabilities in the vision encoder and marked lifts in visual reading logic.
AI2 released open-source coding agents and a training recipe that makes it affordable and practical to build coding agents for private or internal codebases. Its method reproduces top-tier performance at drastically lower compute costs compared to previous approaches.
SOAR is a self-improvement framework that uses meta-RL to help pretrained models learn from problems they initially fail at. By grounding synthetic problem generation in student model progress, it enables learning on sparse-reward tasks without requiring correct solutions upfront.
SoftBank is in talks to invest up to $30 billion more into OpenAI. OpenAI is seeking up to $100 billion in new capital in a round that could value it as much as $830 billion. It needs substantial funding to continue developing its AI models, pay for its vast computing needs, and retain top researchers in an increasingly competitive market. The company is aiming to raise capital from Middle Eastern sovereign-wealth funds and other venture capital funds.
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Clawdbot's persistent memory system, which maintains 24/7 context retention, remembers conversations and builds upon previous interactions indefinitely.
Google has expanded availability of AI Plus, which includes access to Gemini models and AI productivity tools, to 35 more countries.
FLORA unifies the best creative AI models across text, image, and video into one workflow to accelerate the creative process.
Manus AI's Agent Skills open standard enables modular AI workflows for professionals, integrating Python and Bash scripts with a focus on efficiency and interoperability.
BlackRock has filed with the SEC to launch the iShares Bitcoin Premium Income ETF, which would use a covered call strategy to generate income by selling call options on bitcoin exposure managed through the firm's existing iShares Bitcoin Trust (IBIT), trading potential upside for premium distributions to investors. The filing follows similar existing crypto income products, including Roundhill's YBTC, Amplify's BAGY, and NEOS's BTCI, though BlackRock's entry stands out due to IBIT's dominance as the largest spot bitcoin ETF with over $69.7 billion in assets and the firm's $12.5 trillion in total assets under management. Covered call bitcoin ETFs have historically underperformed BTC spot returns, which is typical by design given the higher yields offered, with BTCI down 31.3%, YBTC down 45%, and BAGY down 25% over relevant periods compared to bitcoin's 14% drawdown over the past 12 months.
Japan's Financial Services Agency opened a public consultation (running to February 27) on draft rules under the 2025 Payment Services Act that would restrict eligible reserve assets for regulated yen-pegged stablecoins to certain foreign bonds meeting two strict tests. One is a high credit rating (risk category 1-2 or above) and an issuer outstanding amount of at least ¥100 trillion. This is all while adding supervisory guidance for banks and subsidiaries, requiring foreign issuers to pledge not to solicit Japanese retail users, and setting the reserve-composition standards that will govern all trust-based yen stablecoins.
Tether's USA₮ is a US-focused, dollar-backed stablecoin issued by Anchorage Digital Bank, NA. It is designed to operate within the GENIUS Act's federal stablecoin framework with Cantor Fitzgerald as reserve custodian. Initial distribution will be on Bybit, Crypto.com, Kraken, OKX, and Moonpay. The stablecoin is a bank-grade, institution-oriented digital dollar that sits alongside Tether's global USD₮.
Polaris counters stablecoin centralization by replacing RWA dependencies with an immutable, counterparty-free architecture. While MakerDAO and Ethena pivoted to T-bills, Polaris utilizes bonding curves and a three-token system (pUSD, pETH, and POLAR) to generate native yield from volatility, ensuring permanent decentralization through code-enforced stewardship.
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Maple Finance has originated over $17B in cumulative loans and now manages $4.2B in AUM across stablecoin credit products, demonstrating institutional-grade private credit infrastructure operating onchain. The protocol has generated $128M in interest for LPs and $14M in protocol revenue through usage-driven activity rather than token incentives, with utilization rates ranging from 55-93% across different products. Stablecoin-denominated pools have scaled faster than other onchain credit models by combining traditional underwriting with composability and automated settlement.
Yield Basis launched hybrid vaults requiring crvUSD deposits followed by 2.5x BTC to address crvUSD demand and scale yb-BTC. Pendle is introducing NVIDIA funding rate markets on Hyperliquid perps (the first tradfi-style instrument for funding rate speculation) while transitioning from veToken to liquid staking sPENDLE with 14-day unstaking, 80% revenue buybacks, 30% emission cuts, and 4x boosts for current lockers. USD3's sUSD3 is offering 25% APR with PT markets anticipated for looping strategies, while Pear Protocol V2.1 adds cross-asset conditional orders enabling executions based on BTC price thresholds or dominance levels.
Hyperliquid's spot market model – designed to avoid predatory CEX practices like 200k+ listing fees, forced token allocations, and manipulated launch prices – initially struggled to sustain volume and price action across nearly all listings. The recent performance of Kinetiq, a token from the team behind kHYPE that's airdropped to TVL farmers, may signal an inflection point proving the ecosystem can support sustainable spot bids. KNTQ's recovery demonstrates that Hyperliquid-native projects with revenue generation and genuine utility can attract consistent buying pressure, validating the platform's alternative listing approach.
While post-quantum encryption requires immediate deployment due to harvest-now-decrypt-later attacks already underway, blockchains face less urgent timelines for post-quantum signatures since they aren't vulnerable to HNDL and cryptographically relevant quantum computers remain 10+ years away. Most public blockchains like Bitcoin and Ethereum use signatures rather than encryption and thus aren't exposed to current HNDL risks, though privacy chains that encrypt transaction details face immediate vulnerability. Bitcoin presents unique challenges, including slow governance processes and hundreds of billions in abandoned quantum-vulnerable coins, but blockchains should prioritize implementation security over quantum threats in the near term while beginning migration planning.
Kraken's DeFi Earn, powered by Veda's infrastructure, brings institutional-grade DeFi access to retail users with automated strategy optimization and risk management tools.
US regional banks face a $500 billion deposit exodus by 2028 as stablecoins hit a $2 trillion market cap.