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Agility Robotics Opens Humanoid Training Facility Near Tesla

Agility Robotics is opening a training facility in Tesla's backyard, but unlike Optimus, Digit is already earning revenue in warehouses. The company's pragmatic approach—keeping safety separate from generative AI, focusing on logistics, and going public via reverse merger—positions it as the credible leader in humanoid robotics for industrial use.

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PARE: A Stateful Benchmark for Proactive AI Assistants

This work exposes a core blind spot in proactive AI assistant research: benchmarks that flatten apps into stateless APIs can't test real-world anticipation and timing. The proposed PARE framework models applications as finite state machines, enabling stateful user simulation and a 143-task benchmark across communication, productivity, and scheduling domains.

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Spotify expands AI push with conversational music assistant for Premium users

Spotify is testing a ChatGPT-style music assistant for Premium users, letting them chat about listening history, refine playlists with natural language, and discover songs conversationally. It blends Spotify’s own AI with multiple model providers, betting that conversational interfaces will outpace search and recommendations in a catalog with millions of tracks.

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