Bedrock announced a $600M Series C to add fully autonomous excavators to more U.S. job sites. The company retrofits heavy-duty excavators with sensors and compute in a day and previously raised $270M Series B, valuing it at $4.1B.
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Series C Funding: $600M Series C co-led by CapitalG and Emergence Capital.
Retrofit speed: adds sensors and compute to existing excavators in a day.
Series B and valuation: $270M Series B in February; now valued at $4.1B with nearly $1B raised total.
Customer growth: customers more than doubled since 2025; fully driverless excavators with Sundt, Zachry and others.
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AMD EPYC processors 192 cores per socket, 256 upcoming
AMD EPYC processors now scale to 192 cores per socket, with the next generation reaching 256. An independent benchmark on identical 32-core hardware showed Redis required 32 single-threaded processes per node, Aerospike used one; throughput was comparable and rate jitter was 4.4% for Redis versus 0.2% for Aerospike.
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AMD EPYC processors 192 cores per socket, next generation 256 cores.
Redis used 32 single-threaded processes per node, Aerospike used one; rate jitter 4.4% vs 0.2%.
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Neurable One $499 EEG headphones with tracking
Neurable One is a $499 noise-cancelling headphone that embeds 12 EEG sensors to monitor focus and stress. It offers 22 h battery life, 40 mm beryllium drivers, six microphones and a one-minute baseline check-in that logs eight brain metrics.
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Price: $499
Sensors: 12 EEG sensors woven into the ear pads
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- Neurable One - Linked page
Call for Help: Teaching Robots to Request Assistance – robots learn to request assistance
Call for Help: Teaching Robots to Request Assistance shows Walden robots now learn to request remote assistance when needed, reducing failures by over an order of magnitude. The approach integrates hardware, software, AI and operations to let robots decide when help is required as part of a multimodal policy.
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More than an order of magnitude reduction in failures, enabling hours of continuous operation without fault.
Multimodal policy includes a call-for-help decision head that uses internal state to determine when assistance is needed.
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SafePal Arc campaign deposit win wallet, 2.0x boost
SafePal and Arc launch a campaign where depositing makes users eligible to win a wallet and earn a 2.0x Arc rewards boost in curated Morpho Vaults. The campaign runs from 26 Oct to 26 Nov.
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Deposit to be eligible to win a wallet.
2.0x Arc rewards boost in curated Morpho Vaults.
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- safepal.com - Linked in the post
Magica platform adds Claude and Seedance 2.5 for video creation
Magica platform now integrates Claude and Seedance 2.5 to turn static product photos into video content. Drop a photo and the system generates concept, shots, motion, and final cut within one platform.
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Integration: Claude and Seedance 2.5 work together in Magica.
Workflow: Photo input produces concept, shots, motion, and final cut automatically.
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Martini Bar launches AI filmmaking infrastructure
Martini Bar launches AI filmmaking infrastructure, offering production backend for AI film companies. It says AI filmmaking is real filmmaking now.
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Launch: Martini Bar is live
Claim: AI filmmaking is real filmmaking now
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ReplicantOS presentations built, editable slides
ReplicantOS now includes presentations. An agent creates a full-screen deck over the chat. Press E to edit slides directly—drag, resize, retype, or paste screenshots.
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Feature: presentations added to ReplicantOS earlier this month.
Interaction: press E to edit each slide in place.
