The U.S. is shutting out more foreign-made drones and robots. China’s scale means the global competition may simply move elsewhere.
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Read the full story on TechCrunchThe OpenClaw Foundation has released v2026.8.1, which the project calls OpenClaw 2.0: 933 contributors, 569 first-timers, and more than 16,000 pull requests, roughly half of every PR ever merged into the repo. Setup now reuses existing subscriptions, API keys and local models. The rebuilt Control UI cut test-harness startup from about 1.6 seconds to 575 ms. Shared cloud sessions add real…
Aug 31, 2026
Voice agents fail on latency long before they fail on intelligence. Time to first token is the metric most teams use to choose an inference API, and it is the right starting point and the wrong stopping point. This benchmark works through every layer of the voice stack — LLM, speech-to-text, text-to-speech, and speech-to-speech — using figures verified against primary sources on August 30, 2026,…
Aug 30, 2026
Google Cloud AI Research, with Washington University in St. Louis and UNC Chapel Hill, has released EnvHarness, an Apache-2.0 layer that turns a static agent benchmark into one that adapts to the policy training on it. It wraps a frozen environment through the standard reset()/step() interface, so tasks and human-built verifiers stay untouched — and an LLM designer, EnvRigger, writes those…
Aug 30, 2026
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