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Daily Brief: robotics endpoints, model-platform exits and agent limits

Daily Brief — 31 July 2026 Google puts Gemini Robotics ER 2 into public preview Google has released two Gemini Robotics ER 2 endpoints in public preview: a general model and an on-device variant. Google says the release adds spatial reasoning, agentic code execution, multi-step tool orchestration, video moment finding, progress classification and multi-robot coordination. The practical change is that robotics teams can now evaluate those capabilities through the Gemini API rather than treat

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Daily Brief: GPT-5.6 gets cheaper as agents meet the real world

Lead — GPT-5.6’s lower price is a direct bid for production workloads. OpenAI has cut on-demand API pricing for GPT-5.6 Terra by 20% to $2 per million input tokens and $12 per million output tokens, while Luna falls 80% to $0.20 and $1.20 respectively. The change matters because long-running agent systems amplify token costs: a cheaper general-purpose model gives teams more room to keep context, retry tool calls and move routine automation out of prototypes. OpenAI is positioning the reductions

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AI Daily Brief: Security Moves From Model Demos to Infrastructure

Anthropic’s latest cryptography result is a useful warning: frontier models are starting to change the economics of finding flaws in security standards, not just bugs in implementations. Working with Claude Mythos Preview, the company found a stronger attack on HAWK, a post-quantum signature candidate, and improved attacks on a reduced-round AES variant. Anthropic says neither result affects deployed production systems, but its account puts the HAWK work at roughly 60 hours and $100,000 in API c

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Daily Brief: AI compute becomes infrastructure — and security goes open

The lead Meta brings BlackRock into the financing of its AI compute build-out Meta and BlackRock have formed a venture to develop and own a data-centre campus in El Paso, Texas. Meta frames the deal as a way to pair its operating expertise with outside infrastructure capital as it scales Meta Compute for its long-term AI ambitions. The concrete implication is financial as much as technical: the next wave of AI capacity is being structured as an infrastructure asset, letting a hyperscaler ad

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Daily Brief: Google maps AI use — and GitHub prepares MCP for statelessness

The lead Google’s ATLAS report puts numbers on how people use AI Google has released ATLAS, a large-scale, de-identified study built from 15 million interactions across the Gemini app, AI Mode and Gemini API. Its first finding cuts through some of the automation rhetoric: workplace use spans 68% of occupations representing 90% of US employment, but AI touches only about 21% of tasks in a typical job and fewer than 10% of work interactions fully automate a task. The dataset is not a census o

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