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Hemlock: The missing force signal in robotic training data (opens ycombinator.com)
Hemlock pairs egocentric video with force data from workers' muscle signals; it says adding it improved pi0.5's success 10x on force-sensitive tasks.
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Applied Kinetics: AI-native manufacturing for data center and energy projects (opens ycombinator.com)
Critical equipment, without the multi-year wait.
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Google’s Genie 4 world model adds audio, more realistic worlds, and real-time steering (opens techcrunch.com)
Genie 4 keeps a scene consistent for up to two minutes, double Genie 3's limit, with better physics and audio.
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Anduril, Qualcomm launch BlueChip, a new kind of US-made laptop (opens techcrunch.com)
Anduril founder Palmer Luckey is vowing to bring computer manufacturing back to the U.S., and by that he doesn't just mean assembly, but every individual component, some of which are exclusively made in China today.
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