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Mount Shasta rescue: don’t let Gemini pack your bag
Three Roseville hikers got stranded on Mount Shasta after leaning on Google Gemini for route and packing — sheriff says call the ranger station, not just a chatbot.
Google’s WeatherNext 3 goes hourly — and sharper
Google DeepMind’s WeatherNext 3 hits Search and Maps with hourly refreshes and up to ~5 km detail — live satellites, cleaner precip, and turbine-height wind.
Microsoft’s MAI-Image-2.6 hits Foundry — plus a Flash twin
Microsoft puts MAI-Image-2.6 and a cheaper Flash twin into Foundry public preview — multi-ref editing, web grounding, and a real speed/cost choice.
OpenAI admits wiki incident, new reporting plan
OpenAI admits the German wiki incident and says it will publish a misalignment-incident reporting framework in the coming weeks.
Nscale’s $3.5B bet: compute for Figure’s humanoids
Nscale commits $3.5B of AI cloud compute to Figure (intent past $6B), takes an undisclosed stake, and becomes preferred provider for Helix and humanoids.
Resect’s $25M bet on catching hallucinations inside the model
Washougal’s Resect AI exits stealth with $25M from unnamed PE to inspect LLM internals and intercept hallucinations mid-generation. NeuroWave suite.
iPronics’ $125M bet: light, not copper, for AI racks
Valencia’s iPronics raised $125M Series B (Maverick Silicon + Light Street) for silicon-photonics optical circuit switching in AI data centers. Total funding ~$177M.
Gimlet’s ~$300M bet: AI inference goes multi-chip
Gimlet Labs raised ~$300M at ~$3B, led by a16z, with Arm and Microsoft’s M12 — chip-agnostic AI inference orchestration, as reported to Bloomberg.
Lyte’s $165M bet: robots need better eyes first
Lyte just closed a $165M Series C at $1.6B so robots get trustworthy eyes first — Maverick Silicon–led, Face ID / PrimeSense founders, LyteVision shipping to factories.
Anthropic says the cheap copies came off Claude
Anthropic’s threat chief told CNBC that Moonshot’s Kimi K3 was illegally trained off Claude — the same day Reuters sources said the lab confidentially filed a Hong Kong IPO.
