Simbe Surpasses 3,000 Contracted Robots for Retail Stores

Simbe says more than 3,000 Tally retail robots are under contract as it expands shelf-scanning technology into a broader store intelligence platform.
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SpaceXAI Launches Grok 4.7: Low Prices, Heavy Token Use

SpaceXAI’s Grok 4.7 improves coding benchmarks and keeps API prices low, but heavy token consumption could raise the cost of completing real-world tasks.
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Anthropic Builds Biology Lab to Test What Claude Can Do in the Real World

Anthropic has opened a biology lab to test Claude with real experiments and lab equipment, expanding its AI life sciences work beyond computer simulations.
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Trump Proposes ‘AI Force’ as US, China Discuss AI Safety Channel

Trump proposes an AI Force as the US and China discuss a safety channel for serious AI incidents. Here’s what IT leaders should watch closely.
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Google Wants Android Apps to Look Beyond the Security Patch Date

Google’s new Android security libraries let apps and administrators inspect patch status by component instead of relying on a single security patch date.
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Figure’s Robot Entered 30 Unseen Homes — and Succeeded 56% of the Time

Figure says Helix 2.5 completed household tasks across 30 unseen homes with a 56% success rate, showing progress but also a large reliability gap.
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Toyota Eyes 400,000 Factory Robots in $6.4B Modernization Push

Toyota could deploy 400,000 robots in a $6.4 billion modernization push designed to preserve worker expertise and improve global factory operations.
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Humanoid Robots May Get Their ‘ChatGPT Moment’ by Mid-2027

Spirit AI predicts humanoid robots could handle natural-language, multi-step physical tasks by mid-2027, with factories likely to adopt them first.
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Nvidia Could Sell Twice as Many Chips Next Year — If Suppliers Can Keep Up

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang expects the company to sell twice as many chips next year, but memory, manufacturing and packaging could limit growth.
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Meta’s New AI Chip Is Coming in 2027: Arke Targets Lower AI Costs

Meta plans to deploy its MTIA 450 Arke AI chip in 2027 as it looks to cut inference costs, energy use and reliance on general-purpose GPUs.
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