AI inference cloud startup General Compute has secured a $400 million loan from Upper90, using SambaNova inference chips as collateral. The financing signals growing investor interest in specialized hardware designed to run trained AI models more efficiently than conventional GPU infrastructure.Ownership advocacy group Fulu is offering a $10,000 bounty for proof that the PlayStation 5's software locks can be bypassed to install an operating system such as Linux. The challenge is framed as a test of whether consumers have the right to repurpose hardware they own.San Francisco's city attorney has sent cease-and-desist letters demanding that Apple and Google remove 13 face-swap apps. The letters allege that the companies profited from tools used to create nonconsensual intimate images and failed to prevent prohibited content from appearing in their app stores.Foundation Future Industries says it is exploring weapons capabilities for its humanoid robots, alongside potential roles in logistics, reconnaissance, and inspection. Robotics experts caution that dependable autonomous operation in complex combat environments remains years away.Proposed federal rules could give political appointees broader control over government grants, restrict grant-funded open-access publishing, and make support for analyzing NASA mission data easier to revoke. The Planetary Society is warning about the potential consequences for scientific research.Amazon-owned Zoox has updated software across 105 vehicles after an unoccupied robotaxi braked hard and stopped when heavy smoke obscured an active fire scene. A remote operator reversed the vehicle, and Zoox told regulators it knew of no injuries connected to the issue.Tests of 10 large language models found an average refusal rate of 34 percent for requests to create political criticism involving five restrictive countries. The rate fell to 14 percent across five countries rated as more permissive by Freedom House. The testing was funded by Meta.Greenworks is recalling about 554,780 Kobalt yard tools after 34 reports of batteries smoking, sparking, or catching fire while charging through USB-C inside the tools. Regulators reported no injuries or property damage, and affected owners can request replacement batteries.Over three years, a brain-computer interface combining AI decoding with electrical stimulation helped a man with complete tetraplegia regain hand movement and some sensation. Several improvements persisted for more than two years after the stimulation stopped.Vital Signals has opened $399 preorders for a cloud-connected ring that it says can continuously measure blood pressure without cuff calibration. The consumer model is classified as a wellness device, and cuffless technology is not yet considered accurate enough for medical diagnosis or treatment.Bun's team used 64 AI agents, four worktrees, adversarial reviews, and its test suite to port roughly 550,000 lines of code from Zig to Rust in 11 days. The effort produced about 6,500 commits and carried an estimated API-price cost of $165,000.Microsoft chief executive Satya Nadella told company engineers that Anthropic's request limits and fallback behavior for its Fable model do not make sense. He also argued that businesses should have economical access to custom and open models instead of renting AI capacity from only a few providers.Nvidia has introduced Cosmos 3 Edge, a world model built for robots and vision agents operating in real time. The company also announced partnerships in Japan spanning industrial automation, drug discovery, medical robotics, and manufacturers including Fujitsu, Hitachi, and Kawasaki Heavy Industries.
