X Square Robot Unveils Open Embodied AI Stack
X Square Robot announced an open AI stack designed to unify robot learning data, world models, and action models. The stack aims to enable general-purpose robots to interact with the physical world.
X Square Robot announced an open AI stack designed to unify robot learning data, world models, and action models. The stack aims to enable general-purpose robots to interact with the physical world.
Waze, Google’s navigation app, now uses Gemini AI to offer personalized routes and conversational road updates, rolling out globally on Android and iOS.
AMD's GEAK framework improved DeepSeekV4 MLA kernel throughput by 2.10x and reduced TTFT by 3.71x on MI355 GPUs.
Hugging Face's three.ws platform lets AI agents walk, talk, and pay, hosting 18,000 avatars and 2,800 agents with 3D bodies as of July 2026.
Anthropic integrated a browser into Claude Code, allowing AI to read, click, and type on external websites as of July 12, 2026.
Anthropic reports half of Claude Cowork usage is for administrative and text-based tasks, with business operations accounting for 33.4% of sessions.
Hugging Face's VKUE engine runs a 34.7B parameter model on an 8 GB laptop and a GPU-less CPU server, achieving 20 tok/s and 17 tok/s respectively.
Hugging Face CEO Clem Delangue says open source AI is booming, now used by about half the Fortune 500 companies.
AMD shows SGLang Diffusion outperforms Hugging Face Diffusers on AMD GPUs by 1.5x to 6.3x in text-to-image and image editing tasks.
AWS announced a new method for LLM inference using disaggregated prefill and decode, improving performance for long prompts and high-concurrency workloads. The approach uses EFA and RDMA to reduce latency spikes in streaming applications.
Amazon SageMaker AI now supports deploying quantized models using Unsloth, reducing memory usage by up to 75% for 8-billion parameter models.
Amazon Quick Automate now includes native case management to handle large-scale agentic workflows, enabling tracking of work items across millions of tasks.