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Nvidia unveils Cosmos 3, an open physical AI foundation model, to help robots and autonomous cars better understand the real world with limited training data (Ina Fried/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2026/06/01/nvidia-ai-push-cosmos-3-world-model

Nvidia expands AI push with Cosmos 3 world model
The chip giants aims to become a platform for physical AI.

All requests that a VFX TD receives can be divided into 3 categories:
1. I'm too lazy to push a button. Can the push be automated?
2. I'm too much of a micro-manager to push 1 button. Can you please cram 5 buttons into this GUI for me?
3. Why is this a button? At my previous company they had a dropdown for this. It would run a database query over 200 tables before it would display the GUI and it was very slow but I think it was quite elegant for this particular corner…

OpenAI launches Codex plugins to standardize repeatable AI workflows, with 20 initial integrations such as Figma, Notion, Gmail, and Slack (David Gewirtz/ZDNET)
https://www.zdnet.com/article/openai-codex-plugins-workflow-automation-upgrade/

OpenAI upgrades Codex to automate your workflows - and compete better with Claude Code
Codex's new plugins push it beyond coding and position it to challenge Claude Code's growing lead among developers.

How the global memory chip crunch, driven by AI demand, is hurting China's car industry, squeezing automakers already hit by a price war and razor-thin margins (Nikkei Asia)
https://asia.nikkei.com/business/automobiles/from-by…

From BYD to Xpeng, memory chip crunch squeezes China's automakers
AI-fueled shortages push up costs for groups already fighting brutal price war

“Om overbelasting van het stroomnet te voorkomen wordt gedacht aan een soort NL-alert voor netcongestie. Als ergens te veel stroom wordt gebruikt, krijgen mensen een pushmelding op hun telefoon met het verzoek hun elektrische auto wat later op te laden. Mogelijk krijg je daar zelfs iets voor terug.”
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NL-alert met vraag wasmachine uit te zetten moet overbelasting stroomnet voorkomen
Om overbelasting van het stroomnet te voorkomen wordt gedacht aan een soort NL-alert voor netcongestie. Als ergens te veel stroom wordt gebruikt, krijgen mensen een pushmelding op hun telefoon met het verzoek hun elektrische auto wat later op te laden. Mogelijk krijg je daar zelfs iets voor terug.

RE: https://mastodon.social/@verge/116257102307053080
There's no fucking mystery here (the Verge doesn't imply one, the article is well written, Im just saying aloud) - there is zero fiscal incentive for automakers to PUSH low end models.
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Reliable Robotics, which is developing autonomous aircraft systems for cargo flights, raised $160M led by Nimble Partners, pushing its valuation to ~$1B (Cailley LaPara/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-04…

Mistral acquires Vienna-based Emmi AI for an undisclosed sum to boost its industrial offerings in Europe; Emmi raised €15M in Austria's largest round in 2025 (Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/business/autos-tra…

Sources: Google has created strike team to improve its coding models; Sergey Brin told DeepMind staffers that they must aggressively pivot to catch up on agents (Erin Woo/The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/google-creates-strike-t…

Google Creates Strike Team to Improve Coding Models
Google has assembled a strike team of researchers and engineers to improve its AI coding models, according to three people with direct knowledge of the situation, as it looks to automate more of its own coding and ultimately its AI research. The push was prompted in part by Anthropic’s recent AI ...