Robots
Engine AI flies to space. The startup officially announced a partnership with Interstellor. Their humanoid PM01 will become the first robot astronaut sent into orbit for station maintenance and work in high-radiation conditions.
Figure showed the "most dexterous" humanoid. The company published details of the Helix 02 model. Thanks to a new neural network (System 0), the robot now performs fine motor tasks — for example, fully autonomously loading a dishwasher.
Fauna released the Sprout platform. Fauna Robotics introduced Sprout — a soft and safe robot weighing 22 kg. It is an open platform for developers that can be safely used in schools and apartments.
AI & Big Tech
xAI opened a video model API. Musk's team provided public access to the Grok Imagine model API, offering developers flexible pricing to integrate video generation into third-party apps.
Kimi moved to a multi-agent architecture (Agent Swarm). Moonshot AI revealed details of Kimi K2.5: under the hood, it's not a single neural network but a system of multiple specialized agents that split complex tasks among themselves and solve them collectively.
ChatGPT got native Bash support. The code execution environment added full Bash command support, plus pip and npm package managers, bringing the chat closer to a local development environment.
Apple acquired lip-reading technology. The company bought Israeli startup Q.ai for $2B. Their algorithms recognize speech from micro facial movements, potentially improving Siri in noisy environments.
Science
Autonomous artificial lung created. Surgeons at Northwestern Medicine reported creating a system that kept a patient alive without lungs for 48 hours, enabling a successful transplant.
Unsinkable metal created. Scientists from Rochester developed a metal structure with nano-etching that maintains buoyancy even under serious structural damage.