The future leaves
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OpenAI says GPT-6 Astra met 55.0% of the scoring criteria across 11 contracting tasks built with legal software firm Ironclad, compared with 41.6% for GPT-5.6 Sol. The same research post reports 19.2 minutes per attempt rather than 37.0, but a footnote notes those minutes are simulated estimates.

The article says a robot-ready warehouse needs a building shell designed around automation from the start, with the column grid, clear height, floor, roof loads, and expansion path set by the system that will run inside it. It notes most automation planning begins inside the four walls, with the stock profile, storage system, and handling equipment.

Teradyne Robotics and Elite Robots have settled their software dispute, ending the legal case between them. The terms of the settlement agreement were not disclosed.

Electric vehicle maker Faraday Future plans to bring a robotics factory online in the United States by the end of 2026 as it accelerates expansion into humanoid and other embodied AI robots. The California-based company says it aims to have the first new robot from its "Built in USA" program roll off the line.

An NVIDIA Technical Blog post describes using digital twins and AI agents to validate changes in AI factories, which it calls among the world's most complex operations, combining GPUs, CPUs, switches, DPUs, and SuperNICs alongside schedulers and orchestration.

Microsoft Research introduced Agent Lightning v1.0, a lightweight, 3,500-line agentic reinforcement learning framework. Because AI agents’ tools, context, and decision-making are managed by complex frameworks, it connects existing agents to RL training, aiming to make them easier to improve without rebuilding.

Toyo company officers and government officials celebrated the 2 GW expansion of Toyo's solar module facility in Humble, Texas. They looked forward to planned heterojunction cell production at the site in 2028.

The article argues there is no single safest option for securing robotics infrastructure: cloud, on-premises and hybrid setups can all protect robotics systems well, differing mainly in how responsibility is split, and most factories end up blending them. It notes the approach sounds neat on paper but is messy in practice.

Scientists using the European Space Agency's Mars Express, combined with a state-of-the-art meteorological model of Mars, report that some very exotic physics may lie behind the planet's most curious cloud. The finding is framed as a possibility in the ESA-sourced report.

Google's new on-device embedding model EmbeddingGemma 2 is listed on Hugging Face under the apache-2.0 license with gating disabled, meaning it can be downloaded without prior approval, while EmbeddingGemma 1 remains under the Gemma license with manual gating. The report says the new model gains 0.21 on multilingual text.

According to Tech Xplore, the SANDO system is designed to ensure a robot's flight path remains collision-free in uncharted territory. The report describes UAVs potentially flying into wildfires to gather information for rescuers while avoiding flare-ups and falling debris, though such conditions could damage the aircraft.

Norway's government has announced it aims to introduce a temporary ban on smart glasses in a number of public locations, citing privacy as the main concern. The proposal is described as a high priority but still requires legislation and approval by Norway's parliament, so its passage and scope remain uncertain.

A threadlike motor is reported to use sliding fibers to drive flexible robotic devices without gears. Researchers at EPFL's Soft Transducers Laboratory presented the world's first pump in fiber form in 2023; its flexible tubing can generate its own fluid pressure and flow rate and be sewn into smart textiles for thermoregulation, haptic feedback, or powering wearable assistive devices.

Respawn explained that Apex Legends matches were crashing because a modified game client duplicated a weapon optic 'far beyond its intended limits' through an ability the studio names as Ballistic's Sling passive, and the resulting load took the server down.

A developer has pointed the wristband that ships with Meta Ray-Ban Display at a pair of Rokid glasses, saying the band carries a handwriting model of its own. The unofficial project, called Rokid Lumen, reaches the band over a Bluetooth protocol worked out by reverse engineering, and its author reports testing the handwriting feature.

US energy holding company and project developer-owner NextEra Energy has suspended operations at two energy storage facilities on Long Island, New York, over drinking water contamination concerns. The available context provides no further details beyond the suspension.

In UK energy storage news, shareholders of listed fund Gore Street took a key vote that maintained the status quo, while CIP and BW ESS are progressing 4-hour duration battery storage assets at significant scale.