Colare raised a $2.5M pre-seed round to launch simulation-based hardware hiring assessments. Candidates complete real CAD, PCB, thermal and FEA work in a proctored browser session that is recorded and graded.
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Funding: $2.5M pre-seed raised.
Assessment: candidates do CAD, PCB design, thermal and FEA tasks in a browser, proctored with screen recording.
Cost: hiring one hardware engineer consumes about 50 hours of senior engineering time.
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- help.x.com - Linked in the post
AW-0 Agentic World Action Model announced with 40 ms latency
AW-0 is an agentic world action model that jointly generates code, future video, and robot actions in a single generative model. It adds only 40 ms of inference latency over the base WAM on an RTX 5090 and is pretrained on roughly 3,000 hours of robot and human demonstrations.
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Joint generation of code, predictive video, and continuous motor control via joint denoising.
Pretrained on ~3,000 hours of robot + human demonstrations.
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- Original post
- Agentic World Action Models - Linked page
- arxiv.org - Linked in the post
- github.com - Linked in the post
- huggingface.co - Linked in the post
Gemini API CLI launched – CLI for calling Gemini API
Gemini API CLI launched as a command-line tool to call the Gemini API. It is stateless, has no chat mode, and works with existing agents. The CLI supports generating media, analyzing files, transcribing recordings, and running background research.
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Stateless tool; no memory, no chat mode, agent provides context and plan.
Features include image/video/speech/music generation, PDF and media analysis, transcription to md/json/srt, and background deep research.
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- aistudio.google.com - Linked in the post
Grok Bot goal keeper prompt with subscriber target
Grok Bot goal keeper prompt adds goal-oriented workflow, e.g., reach 70K YouTube subscribers by Oct 31. It tells each agent to set a specific, numeric, dated goal and report weekly progress.
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Prompt requires a specific goal with a number and deadline, such as “Reach 70K YouTube subscribers by Oct 31.”
Prompt schedules a weekly short report indicating on track, behind, or stuck, plus one decision needed.
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Anthropic using its own AI to build future models, S-1 filing
Anthropic is increasingly using its own AI to build future models, according to its newly released S-1 filing. The filing notes this creates a competitive advantage and a serious risk as the company approaches an IPO.
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Competitive advantage: using its own AI to build future models
Risk: potential issues as the company heads toward an IPO
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- forbes.com - Linked in the post
AnyAlpha launches agentic trading platform
AnyAlpha launches an agentic trading platform that turns a trading idea into an always-on agent. Agents run on institutional-grade data and the trading infrastructure built by AnyAlpha, beginning with prediction markets and later expanding to every asset class.
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Platform: turns your trading idea into an agent that executes it 24/7.
Agents run on institutional-grade data and the trading infra built by AnyAlpha.
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- Original post
- anyalpha.ai - Linked in the post
Microsoft to Offer Buyouts to 60,000 Workers
Microsoft will offer buyouts to about 60,000 employees at VP level and below in the US, Canada, India and the UK. The company’s headcount at the end of June was 223,000.
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Buyouts to ~60,000 workers VP level and below across US, Canada, India, UK.
Headcount at end of June was 223,000.