Agility Robotics to go public through a SPAC merger
Agility Robotics announced it will go public through a SPAC merger, raising $465 million as it works to commercialize Digit robots and launch the next-generation Digit 5.
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Claude adds a Personal Finance tool
On 5 November 2026 Anthropic launched Personal Finance for Claude, a read-only tool that connects bank and credit card accounts through Plaid so users can ask questions about their money in everyday language, with no ads or sponsored recommendations.
Court approves bidding procedures for the sale of Character.ai, with Disney as stalking horse
A US bankruptcy court approved the bidding procedures for the sale of Character.ai's assets, with a 13 October 2026 agreement with Disney Worldwide Services as the stalking horse and an auction set for 1 December 2026.
Fal doubles its valuation to $16B on $1.3B round
Fal, a startup that hosts and runs AI video, image and audio models, raised $1.3 billion at a $16 billion valuation, double its valuation from earlier in the year.
Apple requires 18+ ratings for dating and AI companion apps
On 2 November 2026 Apple told developers that apps with dating or romantic features, including AI companion apps, must carry an 18+ rating, with new content descriptors required from 16 November.
Six AGIBOT G2 robots run a 24-hour convenience store trial
Six AGIBOT G2 wheeled humanoid robots worked a 24-hour shift in an operating Shanghai convenience store, completing 1,730 tasks on a livestream, with four of the six passing the final assessment.
AGIBOT Innovation Day 2026
AGIBOT's Innovation Day 2026 in Shanghai on 29 October 2026 introduced the Worken output metric, the AHA3 humanoid hardware architecture, the G2 Max industrial robot, Link-U OS 1.0, the GO-3 Preview and the WITA-Omni interaction model.
NVIDIA releases Nemotron 3.5 Transcribe and Granary 2
On 28 October 2026 Nvidia released Nemotron 3.5 Transcribe, an open-weight, free speech recognition model covering up to 40 languages, alongside the second version of its Granary speech dataset.
The Agentic AI Foundation passes 300 members in under a year
The Agentic AI Foundation reported 305 member organisations in under a year, saying agents are moving from developer experiments to institutional infrastructure.
AAIF adds Agent Skills, Open Responses, OpenEnv and OpenSandbox
On 22 October 2026 the Agentic AI Foundation added four projects — Agent Skills from Anthropic, Open Responses from OpenAI, OpenEnv from Hugging Face and OpenSandbox from Alibaba — bringing it to 10 hosted projects covering different layers of the agentic stack.
Anthropic donates Agent Skills to the Agentic AI Foundation
On 22 October 2026 Anthropic handed the Agent Skills open standard — its name, logo, GitHub organisation and domain — to the Agentic AI Foundation, a Linux Foundation project, after more than 70 agent platforms had adopted it.
Liquid AI adds an omni-modal model to the LFM3 family
On 21 October 2026 Liquid AI released LFM3-Omni-2B, the first omni-modal model in its LFM3 family, taking text, images, video and audio as input and returning text or speech. At 2.17B parameters it targets phones and laptops.
Character.ai files for Chapter 11 to sell the company
On 12 October 2026 Character.ai began a voluntary Chapter 11 case in Delaware to carry out a court-supervised sale of the company, warning that the platform will be wound down if no actionable bid emerges.
Waymo announces its first Canadian service, in Toronto
Waymo said it will launch its autonomous ride service in Toronto, its first Canadian city, with the first passengers planned for 2028.
OpenAI releases GPT-6.1 Sol at DevDay 2026
On 29 September 2026 OpenAI released GPT-6.1 Sol at its DevDay developer event, saying it nearly matched GPT-6 Astra at lower cost. A planned Astra release was withheld over safety results, and GPT-6.1 Terra followed in October.
Anthropic releases Claude Sonnet 5.5
Released on 28 September 2026, Claude Sonnet 5.5 is the second model of the Claude 5.5 family. It kept the price of Sonnet 5 and was the first Sonnet model to ship with cyber safeguards and anti-distillation classifiers.
Character.ai's CEO joins Disney as its CTO
On 18 September 2026 Character.ai said its CEO Karandeep Anand was joining Disney as its Chief Technology Officer, a newly created role, with members of Character's technical team expected to follow.
Character.ai post-trains its own CAI-Image models on Qwen-Image
Character.ai's CAI-Image family consists of image models post-trained from open-source Qwen-Image and tuned for character-driven storytelling, so the same character stays recognisable across styles, scenes and pages. The company announced the models on 16 September 2026.
Nvidia agrees to acquire Hugging Face for $12.93 billion
On 3 September 2026 Nvidia agreed to acquire Hugging Face for $12.93 billion. Hugging Face said it would remain an open platform, and the deal was expected to close in the first half of 2027 pending regulatory approval.
Manus resumes independent operations
On 1 September 2026, Manus announced that it had formally resumed independent operations, with its founding team continuing to lead the company as an independent agent lab advancing general AI agents.