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Guth Labs reports that AMD has agreed to acquire World Labs in an all-stock deal worth approximately $8.2 billion. Closing is expected by the end of 2026, subject to regulatory approval and other conditions. World Labs develops models that generate and simulate interactive environments; according to the report, AMD says that research could help guide its future technology development.
AMD agrees to buy World Labs for approximately $8.2 billion
AMD has agreed to acquire World Labs in an all-stock deal valued at approximately $8.2 billion, with closing expected by the end of 2026, subject to regulatory approvals and other customary conditions. The release does not specify a share count or exchange ratio.
After closing, Fei-Fei Li will join AMD as executive vice president and chief scientist, reporting to CEO Lisa Su. Justin Johnson and Ben Mildenhall will work with Li to continue leading the team, which AMD says will keep focusing on AI model research.
World Labs develops models for generating, reconstructing and simulating interactive environments from text, images and video. AMD says that research can help it understand how AI workloads are evolving and shape its technology roadmaps, a reminder that model advances increasingly inform the systems builders need.
https://t.co/cGhQuZQOEI
The White House announced President Trump's participation in a meeting on superintelligence. RedWave Press reports that six major AI companies signed an accord calling for internal safety controls, internal review teams, outside audits and board oversight. Those reported commitments concern how companies detect and address AI risks; Natalie Brand reports that Trump emphasized “self-policing,” while the supplied posts do not establish whether the commitments are legally enforceable.
.@finkd on today's White House Accord on developing Super Intelligence safely: "We want to give the American people and our customers confidence that the technology works in the way we intended." https://t.co/qvWeAQxnGn
On @SquawkCNBC to discuss today's White House meeting on artificial intelligence and why keeping Republicans in charge is the best decision Americans can make for their own economic security and national security. https://t.co/8dPc455qTd
BREAKING: President Trump has released the Super Intelligence Accord, signed by the heads of major AI companies including 𝕏AI, OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, Meta, and Nvidia. The accord institutes four layers of controls and audits.
— Implement robust internal controls to monitor the capabilities and alignment of its models during training and deployment around areas like cybersecurity, biosecurity, and chemical threats, and to ensure that its models do not hack or access technical systems in unintended ways.
— Empower an internal team to ensure all of the controls, monitoring, and detection are operating as intended, and that any issues are remediated.
— Partner with an independent external auditor or evaluator to carry out independent assessments of whether the controls, monitoring, and detection are operating as intended.
— Designate an independent committee of the board of directors to oversce and receive reports from the teams operating the controls and the internal and external auditors and evaluators, as well as to ensure any issues identified are remediated.
Following the tech meeting, President Trump emphasized "self-policing," and self-regulation.
He also told reporters he would be making a decision on an AI/SI czar in the coming days...and said he's thinking about a committee.
"...where we put maybe 10 people on that committee...committee can watch over the whole enterprise."
@RapidResponse47 @finkd These techies are designing our own extinction. We will have no jobs, will starve and be wiped out. And Trump is helping to accelerate it. https://t.co/LBku5r9k7q
@RapidResponse47 @finkd Trump is taking advantage of his own useful idiot in Zuckerberg. He has that usual look of the lie on his face. Safety is likely at the bottom of his super grift list.
Alfred Wahlforss, CEO of Listen Labs, announced that the company is joining Salesforce, bringing its AI customer-research platform into Salesforce AI Labs. Listen recruits interview participants, interviews them and analyzes their responses, according to Wahlforss. He says he will remain CEO and the same team will continue building the product, with Salesforce helping it reach more companies.
Listen Labs is joining @Salesforce!
A year and a half ago we launched Listen, an AI platform for understanding customers, and it’s been a crazy ride ever since.
Today, we work with some of the largest companies in the world, including Microsoft, Anthropic, and Sweetgreen.
What started as an AI interviewer is now a full platform for understanding customers. Listen finds the right people, interviews them, analyzes what they say, and even simulates how they'll behave.
Listen’s growth quickly accelerated and while we were raising our next round, we met @Benioff.
Marc is a hero of mine. I've taken countless ideas from Behind the Cloud and watched him framemog every AI CEO on the planet. We're honored to get framemogged next.
With Salesforce, we can bring Listen to every company in the world, much faster.
To our customers, our mission remains the same.I stay CEO, @Florian stays CTO and the same team will keep building the product you rely on, now inside Salesforce AI Labs. Thank you for believing in us early.
To our team, families, and everyone who believed in us before there was much to believe in, thank you.
These years have been the most fun years of my life, and it’s still only just the beginning for Listen.
Now back to work. 🚀
Cathexis Partners says it will launch ThursdAI on October 1, offering free weekly emails with “practical, responsible AI guidance for nonprofits.” The announcement is relevant to nonprofit readers seeking AI advice tailored to their sector; the post does not yet provide examples of that guidance.
On Thursday, October 1, we are launching ThursdAI by Cathexis Partners: Practical, responsible AI guidance for nonprofits.
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Moving Atoms announced RobotGym, describing it as a public MCP for physical-AI simulation. The company says researchers can describe or edit environments, choose from 1,246 simulation-ready environments and 90,349 physics-calibrated objects, and leave compute and GPU hosting to the platform. It also advertises “$1,000 + in GPT astra credits” for researchers helping expand the library; terms are not supplied. The pitch matters because it promises to simplify building virtual settings for testing robot behavior, including interactions with cloth, deformable plastic and fluids. In a reply, @AhmadSaroya00 said community work could help close the gap between simulation and real-world robotics. That remains an ambition: the supplied posts do not independently establish physical accuracy or successful transfer to real robots.
We are excited to launch RobotGym (Y Combinator), a public MCP for Physical AI simulation. It's a collaborative platform built with top robotics researchers to create the largest dataset of physics-accurate environments and assets.
We are currently offering researchers grants of https://t.co/Lu6Jf13ZPH
We've done a lot of work to make cloth fabrics and deformables physics accurate.
We have different solvers depending on the type of material and its elasticity.
We believe with a community effort we can make major progress in closing the Sim to Real Gap, unlocking simulation training for robotics.
Moving Atoms (YC S26) has officially partnered with NVIDIA Inception!
Our Mission: Is to provide the Simulation infrastructure for Physical AI. We are building SimReady assets, Simulation Training Data, and evaluation platforms that the community can use for free to help advance the frontier of Physical AI
This is an exciting milestone with many more coming soon!
Describe any environment and let robot gym create it using it's physics accurate assets.
We are currently offering $1,000 + in GPT astra credits to researchers to help expand our library. https://t.co/OoHZM3F7s6
Edit any environment with ease, or choose form our 1,246 sim-ready environments. 90,349 physics-calibrated objects.
This allows researchers to quickly create physics accurate environments ot test their robot policies in. https://t.co/2QBVDPMnlE
We handle all of the Compute and GPU hosting so you can focus on running your simulations.
Pick from 1,246 sim-ready environments. 90,349 physics-calibrated objects.
We hope to advance the frontier of physical AI simulation with the help from the top researchers in robotics.
Physics you can trust.
Cloth here isn't an animation. It's a real solver: every thread-level patch has stretch, bend and friction, and it collides with itself and the robot.
The bottle is a thin plastic shell that buckles, dents and stays dented, while the water inside flows out as a real fluid.
We will soon be adding many more physics solvers to make our simulations accurate.
Aaron Rupar quotes Trump saying he plans to sign a document renaming artificial intelligence “Super Intelligence,” while Rapid Response 47 quotes the change as already official. The wording is reaching beyond political posts: Wall St Engine quotes Elon Musk correcting “AI” to “Super Intelligence,” and the Solana account posts the new term with “Artificial” crossed out. These posts document a naming claim and its uptake, not what was signed or what practical effect it would have.
Trump: "We're gonna be signing a document today renaming artificial intelligence, because it's not artificial. We're gonna be naming it Super Intelligence. Officially renaming it." https://t.co/Wgv6y5Hznl
Elon Musk:
I think it is worth highlighting the positive benefits of AI... Pardon me. "Super Intelligence" 😂
I think the most likely outcome is age of abundance https://t.co/a7S0IWUSal
@atrupar And, what's the average price for a gallon of gas in the US today?
How about that reflecting pool ["American Flag Blue", isn't it?]?
Where are the steelworkers bonus checks? https://t.co/edswQFrWjc
@atrupar Congratulations pedophile supporters . The ONLY thing this pedophile cares about is renaming shit. How is this helping out your daily lives????
You assholes voted for a pathetic loser that ONLY cares about himself and no one else
The White House announced America.gov, saying it brings answers from thousands of government websites into one place. The Tectonic, another account in the supplied posts, describes it as an AI-powered portal for federal services. Trump War Room says Trump signed an order requiring every federal agency to integrate its public-facing services with the site, potentially making it a central way Americans access government services.
President Trump is delivering on his promise to ensure the government works FOR Americans with one of the most revolutionary product launches in history: https://t.co/qE8nYYj3WT 🚀
Get answers from thousands of government websites — all in one place, with a single swipe. https://t.co/rZi2q1D38E
President Trump signs a historic executive order directing every federal government agency to make all of their public-facing services integrate directly with https://t.co/vmLjDxyPEz as soon as possible. https://t.co/CFbtE0X4rF
President Trump on https://t.co/nrmMwnHBXe: "If it is the biggest thing I've ever done, I've done a shitty job as President. But you know what? It's damn good." https://t.co/ZgORKIYauk
🇺🇲 Trump launches https://t.co/5LAu6SdNDq and presses AI titans for voluntary self-regulation
President Donald Trump on Tuesday staged a full-day AI showcase in Washington: the public launch of https://t.co/5LAu6SdNDq, an AI-powered portal meant to become a single front door to federal services, followed by an East Room lunch with the industry's biggest executives at which he argued for "tremendous self-regulation" rather than smothering regulation.
National Design Studio chief Joe Gebbia told CNBC the chatbot is powered by Google Gemini and xAI's Grok and queries roughly 29,000 official government sites. For now the site answers questions from official sources; Trump officials say passport renewals, Medicare enrolment and other form-completion tasks are targeted for early 2027. Google confirmed it is a technology partner.
At lunch, Trump sat with Meta's Mark Zuckerberg, Nvidia's Jensen Huang, Elon Musk, Google's Sundar Pichai and others including Amazon's Jeff Bezos, Anthropic's Dario Amodei, OpenAI's Greg Brockman, Microsoft's Satya Nadella and Palantir's Alex Karp. He said the United States is leading and will keep that lead, and that he would officially rename "artificial intelligence" as "super intelligence" in government use.
House Speaker Mike Johnson, present at the lunch, said AI executives signed an "accord" on technology standards without detailing terms. The leaders of the frontier labs have signed the White House Accord on Super Intelligence, accepting responsibility for the safety of their systems through new internal controls and external audits.
https://t.co/MNWvGTf7kr
@WhiteHouse TRUMP APPROVAL PLUMMETS TO 29%
He hasn't even finished with IORAN and Now he is talking about Striking CUBA. The man is INSANE!
#MAGA #AmericaFirst #patriot https://t.co/MI72qZ9laP
@WhiteHouse TRUMP APPROVAL PLUMMETS TO 29%
Could it be 618 days in office and he w/the "help" of The GOP have done NOTHING to help the American People Prosper?
Trump said the quiet part out loud 👇
Donald Trump: "I DON'T think about Americans' financial situation, I DON'T think about anybody."
#MAGA #AmericaFirst
