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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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.
Marvell agrees to buy Lumentum in a $115B all-stock deal
Marvell agreed on 2 November 2026 to buy optical chip and networking equipment maker Lumentum in an all-stock deal valued at $115 billion including debt, one of the largest technology acquisitions on record.
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.
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.
iFlytek releases device-cloud Spark X2.6
On 22 October 2026 iFlytek released Spark X2.6, a device-cloud model series, at its developer festival in Beijing. The same event also launched a speech foundation model and a digital-employee platform.
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.
Meta releases the open-weight Muse Spark Open
On 15 October 2026 Meta released Muse Spark Open, an open-weight, natively multimodal model with 816 billion total parameters, optimised to run on Apple's Mac Studio. Its weights were published on Hugging Face.
Physical Intelligence opens the Pi API beta
On 13 October 2026, Physical Intelligence opened a beta of the Pi API, a service that lets customers upload their own robot data, fine-tune the company's models and run cloud-hosted inference on their own machines.
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.
Mistral AI raises €3 billion led by Samsung at over €21 billion valuation
On 8 September 2026 Mistral AI announced a €3 billion Series D led by Samsung Electronics, valuing the company at more than €21 billion after the round.
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.
Anthropic releases Claude Fable 5.1 and Mythos 5.1
On 1 September 2026 Anthropic released Claude Fable 5.1 and Claude Mythos 5.1. Prices stayed at $10 and $50 per million tokens, and Mythos 5.1 is offered through verification programmes.
Unitree lists on the STAR Market
Unitree, the Hangzhou robot maker, listed on Shanghai's STAR Market on 19 August 2026 at 150.80 yuan per share, opening its first trading day 629.44% higher and valuing the company at 444.9 billion yuan.
Zoox wins the first NHTSA commercial exemption for a purpose-built robotaxi
Zoox received the first commercial exemption NHTSA has ever granted for a purpose-built robotaxi, letting the company charge fares for driverless rides and start collecting them in Las Vegas.
MCP publishes the 2026-07-28 specification with a stateless core
On 28 July 2026 the Model Context Protocol project published a specification built on a stateless core, turning MCP into a request/response protocol whose requests any instance behind a plain round-robin load balancer can serve.
Anthropic releases Claude Opus 5
On 24 July 2026 Anthropic released Claude Opus 5 at $5 and $25 per million tokens. Anthropic said it came close to Claude Fable 5's frontier intelligence at half the price.
Momenta lists in Hong Kong as the territory's first physical-AI stock
Momenta began trading on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange's main board on 8 July 2026, opening more than 6 percent above its issue price and passing a market value of 70 billion Hong Kong dollars on its first day.
Mistral AI introduces Robostral Navigate for robots
On 8 July 2026 Mistral AI introduced Robostral Navigate, an 8-billion-parameter model that steers robots from camera images and spoken-style instructions, trained entirely in simulation and scoring 76.6% on a standard navigation benchmark.
Council gives final approval to simplified AI Act rules
On 29 June 2026 the Council of the EU gave final approval to a regulation streamlining the bloc's AI rules, carried in the Omnibus VII package; the amendments entered into force on 27 July 2026.