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Stripe didn’t really buy OpenRouter because of the ‘singularity’
What does a payments giant want with a startup that routes prompts between different AI models? Stripe says it's because of "the singularity" but it's really for a far more real and powerful reason.
Does giving a camera wings dodge the FCC’s drone ban?
It’s a camera. It’s a drone. But HoverAir doesn’t want it to be a drone where the FCC is concerned. | Image: HoverAir HoverAir drones always have intriguing gimmicks. This one folds flat to fit in your pocket. This one can land on water. Another can charge inside its carrying case. But the brand's latest trick might be its riskiest: it's attempting to sneak a drone past the FCC. In December 2025, the US government banned future foreign drones from reaching our shores, and HoverAir's floating Aqua drone was one of the first casualties. But this time, brand owner Zero Zero Robotics might have found a loophole: its latest $750 Versa drone isn't a drone, it claims, but rather a DJI Pocket-style mini steadycam with optional snap-on propellers that let it fly. … Read the full story at The Verge.
Waymo’s cheaper, next-gen robotaxi is now open to all riders in these three cities
The next-generation robotaxi, called the Waymo Ojai, is central to the company's push towards mass scale, and eventually, profitability.
Give Your Agent Fleet a Shared Brain — Why Most “AI Agent Memory” Can Never Scale Past One Machine
Every agent memory product on the market right now solves the same narrow problem: giving one agent, on one machine, a way to remember Continue reading on Medium »
Serverless Inference Heats Up, But Struggles with Cold Starts
Run Qwen 3 on DigitalOcean and view OpenAI API optionsContinue reading on DigitalOcean AI Digest »
Cognition CEO denies report that SpaceX tried to acquire the startup
SpaceX was reportedly in talks to buy AI coding startup Cognition. SpaceX has already acquired Cursor as it races to catch up to rivals like OpenAI and Anthropic in enterprise AI.
Travis Kalanick kicks off another round of VC bashing: ‘1% are helpful’
After raising $1.7 billion for his new robotics company Atoms, Travis Kalanick is introspective about the role VCs have played in his career.
Kollmorgen to give a joint-by-joint guide to humanoid motion at RoboBusiness
The talk at RoboBusiness will outline the unique demands of each body zone and the challenges of scaling for production. The post Kollmorgen to give a joint-by-joint guide to humanoid motion at RoboBusiness appeared first on The Robot Report.
The Engineers Who Grow Aren’t the Ones Who Know the Most
There is a point in an engineer s career where learning more technologies stops being the main thing that makes you better.Continue reading on Medium »
I Kept Finding the Same Missing Timeout in Every AI Call We Shipped
The fallacies of distributed computing didn t stop applying just because the call in question talks to a model instead of a database.Continue reading on Medium »
Nielsen is leaning more on wearables to hear what people are watching
In order to beef up its ability to accurately measure viewership data in the streaming era, Nielsen is moving forward with a plan to use more information gathered from its partners' wearable devices. Today, Nielsen announced "a number of key enhancements" that are being added to its data capturing process ahead of the upcoming fall TV season. As of August 31st, Nielsen's co-viewing data will now include information obtained from smart-watch like gadgets that Neilsen's research panelists wear in their homes. The Portable People Meter (PPM) Wearables - which Nielsen first began deploying nationally in 2016 to bolster its audio, local TV, and … Read the full story at The Verge.
AI was supposed to win people over by now — it hasn’t
As AI becomes harder to avoid, consumers are growing more wary of the technology — and Silicon Valley is discovering that widespread adoption doesn’t necessarily lead to acceptance.