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Boston Dynamics Gives Atlas a 13-DOF Hand — and Skips the Pinky

Boston Dynamics has unveiled a new hand for its Atlas humanoid: 13 degrees of freedom across four fingers, including a four-DOF opposable thumb, dense tactile sensors and direct actuation built for simulation-driven reinforcement learning. It can pinch, tripod-grasp and work tool triggers such as drills and welding torches — but there is no pinky, because the team decided the extra complexity was not worth it.

Sean Parker Is Rebuilding Stability AI Around Music — With the Major Labels On Board

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Sean Parker Is Rebuilding Stability AI Around Music — With the Major Labels On Board

Stability AI, the image-generation company rescued from near-collapse two years ago, is being rebuilt as a music-tools business. Napster co-founder Sean Parker and CEO Prem Akkaraju have raised $76 million from Sony, Warner and Universal — which also licensed their catalogs for training — and shipped three new audio models plus AI music-editing software. An upcoming update will let users hum a melody or beatbox a drum pattern to steer the model.

Meta Open-Sources Its Muse Agent So You Can Build Your Own Gadgets

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Meta Open-Sources Its Muse Agent So You Can Build Your Own Gadgets

Meta has open-sourced code that lets anyone put its Muse AI agent on self-built hardware — an off-the-shelf ESP32 board or a Raspberry Pi — and is giving away 5,000 Muse Home Link hubs. Meta Superintelligence Labs' Nat Friedman says the hub works with community-built skills to control lights, TVs and printers. A waitlist is open, with shipping expected this month.

Agent-Reach Tops GitHub Trending: One CLI to Give Agents Eyes on the Social Web

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Agent-Reach Tops GitHub Trending: One CLI to Give Agents Eyes on the Social Web

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