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Today in brief.
Boston Dynamics Atlas moves into production assembly
Boston Dynamics posted Atlas going from first components to final assemble on a real production line, and is hiring ProtoOps roles around it. Embodiment beat with a factory floor, not a lab demo reel.
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💼 Business
Runway joins OpenAI Marketplace and ships Agent Tagging
Runway is a launch partner on the OpenAI Marketplace, so OpenAI commit dollars can buy Runway image, video, audio, and editing models. Same day, Runway Agent Tagging lets you @ the agent on assets for edits and variants.
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🤖 AI
GPT-6.1 Sol: near-Astra at one-fifth the price
OpenAI shipped GPT-6.1 Sol as the DevDay workhorse: near-Astra intelligence at about 1/5 the price, plus a 95% cache-read discount. Separately, GPT-6.1 Astra was shelved over safety, so Sol is the model you can actually buy.
💼 Business
Hard numbers: $6T datacenter math and AI shopping kills browse ads
Two checkable economics beats: one report says the AI industry needs about $6T in annual revenue by 2031 to justify the datacenter buildout, and a16z charts how agent shopping skips the browse sessions marketplaces monetize.
🔧 Tech
Try today: TurboGPT trains a 22KiB transformer in 13s
Show HN: TurboGPT trains a 22KiB transformer in about 13 seconds. Tiny open door you can click while the frontier labs dominate the headlines.
🤖 AI
OpenAI ships Dots: always-on agents with their own computer
At DevDay, OpenAI launched Dots: always-on personal agents powered by GPT-6 Astra, each with a cloud computer, a browser, and 4,000+ app connections. Pro and Business users can start one today.
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🤖 AI
Perplexity Computer: Automations plus a $2k open-world game
Perplexity shipped Automations for ongoing, trigger-based work across Slack/Gmail/Linear, upgraded the Agent API with Profiles and Skills, and Arav showed Computer (Opus 5.5) building a full browser open-world game for about $2,000 in credits.
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🏛️ Policy
EFF: DraftKings uses AI to target chronic gamblers
The EFF documents DraftKings using AI behavioral targeting on people already showing problem-gambling patterns. A concrete consumer-harm mechanism, not another vibes regulation thread.
🤖 AI
Meta Muse skips permissions and leaked a home address
AppleInsider says Meta's new Muse agent ignores user permission settings, and The Verge reports Muse sent a YouTuber's address to a stranger on Marketplace. Concrete agent-permission failure, not abstract doom.
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