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Rogo Opens Singapore Hub, Targets 200 APAC Staff for Broader Bank AI Push

The hiring plan supports a larger product pitch: an organizing layer for AI agents that banks can use for governance, compliance and internal usage visibility. Rogo Technologies is opening a Singapore office as the hub of its Asia-Pacific expansion, recruiting in Singapore, Tokyo and Sydney. The expansion pairs those established workflow tools with a broader product pitch for banks.

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LaunchModels

DeepSeek V4 Pro Lands on Fireworks With $2.50 CyberGym Solves, but Kimi K3 Scores Higher

The provider’s results frame security-agent selection as a three-way choice among raw solve rate, cost per completed task, and whether a model will reliably execute the required tool workflow. Fireworks AI has made DeepSeek-V4-Pro-0813 available on its platform, pairing the release with security-benchmark results that favor the model on cost and tool reliability rather than outright solve rate.

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Platform shiftProducts

Amazon to Close Mechanical Turk Sept. 30, Ending a 21-Year Data-Work Market

The shutdown retires a broad marketplace for digital piecework, leaving dependent businesses to migrate and some workers without a flexible source of income. Amazon will close AWS Mechanical Turk on September 30, 2026, ending a marketplace that has connected people to small digital jobs since 2005. The premise was simple: send out work that people could complete easily but computers could not.

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FundingStartups

Generalist Reportedly Adds Nearly $200M at $3B Valuation for Robot Learning From Demonstrations

The financing puts more weight on a narrow but consequential question: whether short demonstrations can become a reliable alternative to task-by-task robot programming. Generalist has reportedly added nearly $200 million in an 8VC-led Series B extension, reaching a reported $3 billion valuation. The extension brings the round’s reported total to $600 million.

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EarningsBusiness

Salesforce Reports $3.4B AI-and-Data ARR as ServiceNow Tops $1B AI ACV

The companies are pursuing overlapping enterprise AI ambitions from different starting points: Salesforce is attaching agents to its CRM and data stack, while ServiceNow is selling governance across workflows, agents and models. Enterprise AI spending is increasingly a fight over the software that connects models to company data and daily work. Salesforce is positioning Agentforce as an agentic CRM platform.

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BenchmarkProducts

Tiangong Ultra Runs 100m in 8.86 Seconds, Then Hits a Stopping Mat

The Beijing race shows a sharp jump in humanoid sprint performance, but its finish also exposed a basic operational constraint: Tiangong Ultra needed a thick mat to stop and caught fire after impact. Tiangong Ultra, a humanoid robot from the Beijing Humanoid Robot Innovation Center, ran 100 metres in 8.86 seconds in a large-size division semifinal at Beijing’s World Humanoid Robot Games. High jump: 2.88 metres.

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FundingStartups

Alice Raises $140M to Pair Model Testing With Enterprise AI Guardrails

The former ActiveFence is funding a lifecycle security pitch: test models for hostile behavior before launch, then apply customer-specific controls after AI reaches company data and tools. Alice has raised $140 million to expand an AI security platform built for two different moments: before a model is released and after an enterprise puts it to work. Apax Digital will join Alice’s board.

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LaunchProducts

Apple Refreshes Mac mini and Mac Studio for Linked Local AI, From $899

The specification refresh formalizes a workflow of linking Macs for larger local models, but performance evidence has yet to arrive and the top chip’s name is inconsistent. Apple ’s new Mac mini and Mac Studio put local AI inference at the center of a desktop refresh that otherwise adds no major features. The bet is on memory, bandwidth and linked-machine workloads rather than a new AI application for the Mac.

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EarningsBusiness

Nvidia’s $105 Billion OpenAI Backstop Raises the Stakes for Rubin’s Autumn Debut

Wednesday’s results will be read as a test of a new, more exposed Nvidia: one that is both selling the hardware for AI buildouts and helping customers finance the infrastructure around it. Nvidia enters Wednesday’s earnings report with a bigger job than delivering another surge in chip sales. It then agreed to guarantee up to $105 billion for OpenAI’s 20-year lease of a large Ohio data center.

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Enterprise adoptionInfrastructure

Kimi.ai Uses TiDB for One-Second Agent Databases and Persistent Development State

PingCAP’s deployment pitch is built around instant database creation and durable agent context, but its headline capacity, cost and speed figures have not been paired with measured Kimi.ai operating results. Kimi.ai can generate and deploy an application from a natural-language request within minutes, according to PingCAP. PingCAP says the deployment eliminates idle database compute costs for inactive applications.

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Open releaseTools

Nvidia’s NeMo Switchyard Routes Agent Calls Across Models, Not One Default

The open-source routing layer can switch models as an agent encounters tool results and errors, but companies must now test the routing policy itself as prices and capabilities move. Nvidia has released NeMo Switchyard, an open-source Rust-based proxy and library that routes large-language-model traffic across models and providers. A router is not the agent manager The boundary matters.

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LaunchInfrastructure

NVIDIA Says MaxLPS Can Add Up to 40% More Rubin GPUs Within a Fixed Power Budget

The suite treats unused rack headroom, workload tuning and cooling power as capacity to recover. Its biggest capacity claim is still a projection, while its control software remains in preview. NVIDIA says DSX MaxLPS can raise AI-factory output within a fixed facility power budget by shifting unused rack power to active GPUs, tailoring GPU settings to workloads and reducing cooling overhead.

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PartnershipBusiness

Mistral and HUMAIN Put Hundreds of Millions Behind Saudi AI Plans, With Compute Terms Still Open

The partnership gives Mistral a route into Saudi infrastructure and regulated-industry sales, but its commercial value will hinge on terms not yet disclosed: the model, the customers, the capacity and the delivery plan. Mistral and HUMAIN have set out a sovereign-AI collaboration valued in the hundreds of millions of euros, spanning infrastructure, models and regional deployments.

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LaunchInfrastructure

AWS Brings Ray Into SageMaker HyperPod With Recovery Tools and Tiered Cache on EKS

The launch moves several operational tasks behind SageMaker Studio while tying Ray teams to a HyperPod-on-EKS setup and its required add-ons. AWS has integrated Ray into SageMaker HyperPod on Amazon EKS, putting cluster management, job submission, dashboards, and hung-job-detection configuration into SageMaker Studio. Original project Python package Open package ↗ KubeRay Open repository ↗ in this interactive demo.

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