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Each edition chapters one UTC day of Orbitwire posts — calm, sourced, and linkable. Today’s edition stays open until midnight UTC. Recent days sit under This week; older catch-up days under Earlier. For a finite Mon–Sun catch-up with developing-story threads, open the weekly digest.
This week
- Unitree’s founder says GPT-6 tests pulled embodied AI closer; Airbus and Kratos fly U740 Valkyrie for first time in Europe AI · Space · Autonomy · Robots · Emerging
- Parallel Systems raises $100M for driverless battery freight railcars; Digital Optimus is learning to play Diablo just by watching the screen AI · Autonomy
- Atomic Machines leaves stealth with a fab that builds tiny machines from code; Robot-data startup microagi says it hit a $100M revenue run rate in six months Space · Robots · Emerging
- Sharpa shows its first humanoid, D01, with a new tactile hand and data glove; Quantum startup Oratomic raises $475M, now valued at $5.4 billion AI · Autonomy · Robots · Emerging
- Crew-12 splashes down off Los Angeles after 237 days; OpenAI opens Ultrafast mode for GPT-6.1 Sol to all API users AI · Space · Robots · Emerging
- Anthropic’s Claude Haiku 5.5 cuts small-model prices by up to 90%; Tesla aims for 1,000 Optimus a week, but hands slow the line AI · Space · Autonomy · Robots · Emerging
- Agility pegs Digit 5 rental near $100,000 a year per robot; Meta and Sierra draft an open standard for personal AI agents AI · Space · Autonomy · Robots · Emerging
Earlier
- IAC opens with 21-nation Antalya space-peace declaration; CMU spinout Safeworld raises $12M to safety-test AI robots AI · Space · Robots · Emerging
- Trump names spy chief Jay Clayton to lead AI task force; SpaceX set to loft 21 SDA Tranche 1 sats Monday AI · Space · Robots · Emerging
- OpenAI safety lead quits, calling culture broken; Northrop Talon Blue completes first autonomous flight AI · Space · Autonomy · Robots · Emerging
- Meta’s Muse Spark helps solve six math papers; NASA’s X-59 hits Mach 1.53 in record flight week AI · Space · Autonomy · Robots
- SoftBank closes final $10B OpenAI investment tranche; Star Catcher flies Protostar for orbital power beaming AI · Space · Autonomy · Robots · Emerging
- Firefly books Starcloud AI compute for lunar orbit; DeepMind SynthID Bio watermarks AI-designed proteins AI · Space · Autonomy · Robots · Emerging
- White House AI lunch yields voluntary safety accord; NASA sets Starliner-1 uncrewed flight for winter AI · Space · Autonomy
- Tesla opens Sparks Semi factory for volume build; Starfish Otter set for first NASA inspection flight AI · Space · Autonomy · Robots · Emerging
- AGIBOT puts 300+ robots into Chimelong park; Belgian LUVMI-M books Blue Moon ride for 2029; Google Suncatcher tests TPUs in orbit next week AI · Space · Autonomy · Robots · Emerging
- Claude finds CRISPR-like enzyme system in phage DNA; China lofted Supercomputing-1 for on-orbit AI imaging AI · Space · Autonomy · Robots · Emerging
- Tesla puts Grok Bot in cars for hands-free tasks; AstroForge builds Solo AI to fly spacecraft alone AI · Space · Autonomy · Robots · Emerging
- Figure Helix 2.5 tidies 30 unseen homes zero-shot; Galileo authenticates first fix under live spoofing AI · Space · Autonomy · Robots · Emerging
- Impulse Space lifts Series D to $808M; Anthropic unifies Claude and adds Docs, Slides; Vera Rubin NVL72 debuts atop MLPerf Inference AI · Space · Autonomy · Robots · Emerging
- OpenAI Foundation funds Public Data for Health; NASA powers on Roman’s Wide Field Instrument; OpenAI buys camera AI startup Glass Imaging AI · Space · Autonomy · Robots · Emerging
- Musk: Grok 4.8 finishes training, starts RL this week; Hyundai advances Saemangeum AI and robot campus AI · Space · Autonomy · Robots · Emerging
- SpaceX lofts final three SES O3b mPOWER sats; Spain grants WeRide–Uber first national L4 permit AI · Space · Autonomy · Robots
- OpenAI will match Anthropic’s embedded AI evaluators; Tesla runs supervised Cybercabs on New York streets AI · Space · Autonomy · Robots · Emerging
- Tesla shows Cybercab in Japan for first time; EU tech chief pushes global AI safety rules AI · Space · Autonomy · Robots · Emerging
- ESA books Nyx for European ISS cargo demos; OpenAI and GSA expand free ChatGPT for U.S. governments AI · Space · Robots · Emerging
- OpenAI adds Christiano to Foundation Board; NVIDIA SONIC paper lands in Science Robotics; Google commits €13B to Finland AI infrastructure AI · Space · Autonomy · Robots · Emerging
- Meta launches Muse personal agent in the U.S; GalaxEye wins U.S. patent for OptoSAR imaging AI · Space · Autonomy · Robots · Emerging
- Agility S-4 shows $1.8M Digit sales in 2025; Isar says Spectrum pipeline tops €10 billion; Anthropic compute deals tallied at 14.8 GW AI · Space · Autonomy · Robots
- OpenAI chief scientist urges voluntary AI slowdowns; China packs AI tokens into cards and phone plans AI · Space · Autonomy · Robots · Emerging
- Isar Spectrum reaches orbit from Norway; US and China plan mid-September AI safety talks; Google and Janelia map male fruit fly CNS AI · Space · Autonomy · Robots · Emerging
- NASA Artemis IV crew selection moves into final review; Waymo expands robotaxi service to three more US metros Space · Autonomy
- Figure 03 humanoid begins factory pilot at BMW Spartanburg; EU AI Act high-risk rules take effect for foundation models Robots · Emerging
- SpaceX Starship Flight 12 nails soft splashdown for both stages; Anthropic Claude 4.1 adds long-horizon agent memory AI · Space
- Tesla FSD v14 cleared for supervised highway use in California; Boston Dynamics Spot fleet monitors offshore wind farms Autonomy · Robots
- Google Quantum AI claims 100 logical qubits in error-corrected demo; Meta Llama 5 open weights land with 405B MoE option AI · Emerging
- ESA Euclid survey maps 1.5 billion galaxies in first public catalog Space
- Cruise resumes limited robotaxi service in San Francisco Autonomy
- Agility Digit robots sort parcels at Amazon fulfillment hubs Robots
- Neuralink N1 implant trial reports first speech decoding results Emerging
- Apple Intelligence expands on-device models to Mac and Vision Pro AI
- Blue Origin New Glenn lofted NASA Mars telecom relay Space
- Zoox robotaxi opens public waitlist in Las Vegas Strip corridor Autonomy