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- 🗓️ 2026-10-22 · ✍️ RoboterminalEka's Robot Picks 1,500 Things an Hour. Its Gripper Is Rated for About 139 Days of That.
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- 🗓️ 2026-10-19 · ✍️ RoboterminalFifteen Humanoids Are Loading Car Parts at 98%. The Number That Decides Their Future Is 15 Seconds.
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What changed, and what is the evidence.
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Jensen Huang gave an agent one sentence and let it finish his keynote for him. At GTC Berlin, he handed Hermes, Nous Research's self-hosted agent, a single prompt on an RTX Spark laptop. Hermes installed itself, then planned, built and ran… |
Every agent calling a search API right now is quietly repaying the same tax: it re-reads pages, re-runs extraction, and re-burns tokens on page structure that hasn't changed since last Tuesday. Artificial Analysis just added DeepSeek… |
$2,599 buys a Windows laptop that Microsoft says renders AI images 4.3 times faster than a 16 inch MacBook Pro on M5 Pro. The marketing is aimed squarely at Apple. The architecture underneath is aimed at something bigger: deciding, task by… |
The agent safety conversation just moved from the prompt to the silicon. NVIDIA shipped the Open Agent Safety Platform this week with over 100 partners, and the mechanism is the interesting part. OpenShell is a secure runtime that sets… |
Everyone is still arguing about parameter counts while the real efficiency gains come from a different lever: what a weight is allowed to be. Moondream just shipped Parakeet Redux, a speech to text model built by compressing NVIDIA's… |
Local inference is becoming a product category, not just a benchmark table. Perplexity launched Portable Computer on Windows RTX PCs today. The orchestrator LLM, subagent LLM, and the full agent harness all run on-device. No cloud… |
The hybrid compute pattern is getting serious. Perplexity just open-sourced Lily, the local inference engine powering their Mac hybrid compute feature, and the architecture choices are worth understanding.Lily runs Qwen3.6-35B-A3B on Apple… |