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HEADLINES AND LAUNCHES
META OPENS ITS MUSE AGENT TO DIY HARDWARE WITH AN OPEN-SOURCE GADGET
SDK (3 MINUTE READ) [4]
Muse is Meta's subscription AI agent, and its new Apache 2.0 SDK lets hobbyists build physical front-ends for it on ESP32 boards or a
Raspberry Pi, adding screens, mics, speakers, and sensors.
Community-built skills can let Muse control lights, a TV, or a printer
through a local network device. Meta's own Muse Home Link, which
bridges Muse to home Wi-Fi devices, is free to US subscribers and
ships in October.
MUSK CONFIRMS TSMC TALKS ON TERAFAB, WHICH COULD SIDELINE INTEL'S 14A
NODE (3 MINUTE READ) [5]
Culpium reports TSMC is exploring building and operating a fab that
would exclusively serve Tesla, SpaceX, and xAI, and Musk confirmed it
on X, saying "just discussions, but something may come of it" while
TSMC stayed silent. The two speculative structures Culpium floats are
a JASM/ESMC-style joint venture where partners supply capital and
demand while TSMC contributes process technology and operations, or a
novel arrangement where SpaceX holds majority ownership and TSMC only
operates the fab and licenses its process.
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ENGINEERING AND APPLICATIONS
RESEARCHERS FIND AN UNDOCUMENTED RAW IQ CAPTURE MODE IN ESP32 CHIPS,
TURNING $5 BOARDS INTO SOFTWARE-DEFINED RADIOS (4 MINUTE READ) [6]
The ESPARGOS team found a hidden debug feature in Espressif's ESP32
modem that bypasses the fixed Wi-Fi modem and dumps raw baseband IQ
samples straight into internal SRAM, using the chip's own ADC chain
with no extra hardware. They reverse-engineered it, with help from
LLMs, and it works across the original ESP32 plus the C3, C5, C6, C61,
S2, S3, and S31, capturing up to 80 MSa/s across 2.2-2.7 GHz (and
4.8-6.0 GHz on the C5), which even reaches some LTE and 5G NR bands
near 2.6 GHz.
BOSTON DYNAMICS UNVEILS NEW FOUR-FINGER HAND FOR ATLAS HUMANOID ROBOT
(4 MINUTE READ) [7]
Boston Dynamics has introduced a new four-finger hand for its Atlas
robot, optimizing cost and reliability by excluding the pinky. The
hand, with 13 degrees of freedom, uses dense tactile sensors and
enables complex tasks like in-hand object reorientation and tool
operation. Designed for simulation and reinforcement learning, this
innovation aims to enhance Atlas' capabilities for industrial
applications.
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RESEARCH AND PROTOTYPES
HBF FOR HIGH-THROUGHPUT LLM SERVING (UC BERKELEY, FURIOSAAI) (2
MINUTE READ) [8]
UC Berkeley and FuriosaAI researchers explored using high-bandwidth
flash (HBF) to enhance memory capacity for LLM serving. They achieved
up to 87% faster completion times and 55.8% energy savings compared to
HBM-only systems. Buffered cache-aware scheduling extended HBF write
lifetime from 4.77 to 14.82 years, highlighting the impact of data
placement strategies on performance and efficiency.
SUB-NANOSECOND MRAM ISING MACHINE TACKLES CHIP-DESIGN OPTIMIZATION
PROBLEMS (3 MINUTE READ) [9]
A Nature Electronics paper from Sai Li, Zhang, and colleagues
describes an Ising machine built from CMOS-integrated magnetoresistive random-access memory (MRAM) that switches magnetic states in under a
nanosecond using electrical pulses. Ising machines map an optimization
problem onto a network of coupled magnetic spins and let the system
settle toward its lowest-energy state, which encodes the best
combination of options, so the fast, controllable magnetic switching
here is what does the searching.
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MISCELLANEOUS
CALIFORNIA MAN CHARGED WITH SMUGGLING $300M OF NVIDIA AI SERVERS TO
CHINA THROUGH MALAYSIA AND SINGAPORE (3 MINUTE READ) [10]
Federal prosecutors arrested Greg (Yiu Kong) Lui, owner of San
Gabriel Valley company Earthmade, on charges of exporting more than
$300 million of servers loaded with export-controlled Nvidia AI GPUs
to China between 2023 and 2024. The scheme worked by exploiting a
licensing gap: Commerce doesn't require an export license to ship this
hardware to Malaysia or Singapore, but does for China, so Lui
allegedly sent servers to Malaysian and Singapore transshipment
companies using false paperwork, then used freight forwarders to move
them on to Chinese buyers.
THE PHYSICAL AI RACE WILL BE WON IN THE PATENT OFFICE (8 MINUTE READ)
[11]
The physical AI race will depend on owning IP rather than just
building the best robot. Robotics companies need a strong IP strategy,
focusing on key inventions that ensure their competitiveness.
Utilizing AI in patent processes can reduce costs and improve
efficiency, crucial for resource-limited startups.
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QUICK LINKS
RUNWAY INTRODUCES PRAXIS-1 WORLD ACTION MODEL FOR ROBOTICS (4 MINUTE
READ) [12]
Praxis-1 is a world action model that uses video pretraining to
control robots.
HELLO ROBOT AWARDED $3 MILLION TO DEVELOP STRETCH ROBOT FOR ELDER
CARE (5 MINUTE READ) [13]
Hello Robot secured nearly $3 million from the NIH to advance its
Stretch robot for elder care, focusing on cognitive support, social
engagement, and safety management.
LEGATO LAUNCHES $999 AI HEARING GLASSES THAT AMPLIFY VOICES AND
CANCEL NOISE ON-DEVICE (3 MINUTE READ) [14]
Legato Frames pack the startup's hearing-assistance tech into the
arms of eyewear, aimed at adults with up to moderate hearing loss and
starting at $999.
NVIDIA LAUNCHES A $4,999 DGX SPARK WITH 64GB OF MEMORY THAT CLUSTERS
WITH A SECOND UNIT TO RUN 200B-PARAMETER MODELS (3 MINUTE READ) [15]
Nvidia is adding a 64GB unified-memory DGX Spark, sold only through
partners (Acer, ASUS, Dell, Gigabyte, HP, and MSI) starting October 23
at $4,999, built on the same GB10 Grace Blackwell chip as the 128GB
model and able to run models up to 100B parameters on-device.
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