Today's developments highlight the rapid expansion of AI into specialized physical and biological domains alongside shifting industry standards for hardware and safety.

1. OpenAI acquires startup Orchestra Bio⁠ to beef up its biotech business

OpenAI is integrating Orchestra Bio's team and technology to enhance its Rosalind platform, aiming to improve how researchers conduct and interpret life sciences experiments.

_{Source: TechCrunch AI}

2. Plants can speak using electricity, so this startup built an AI model to decipher their language

A new startup is utilizing AI to interpret electrical signals in plants, potentially creating a novel method for monitoring botanical health and environmental responses.

_{Source: TechCrunch AI}

3. Ex-Nvidia-turned-VC Amulya Vishwanath: ‘Physical AI is in its LEGO era’

Industry experts suggest that physical AI is currently in a modular, early-stage development phase, drawing parallels to the foundational growth of robotics.

_{Source: TechCrunch AI}

4. Anthropic pitches AI safety bill that may block a model if 50+ people could be killed

Anthropic is proposing legislation that would require judicial oversight before federal agencies could block the release of AI models based on potential safety risks.

_{Source: TechCrunch AI}

5. Eka is worth $1.45B thanks to a physical AI model that has experts raving

Eka Robotics has achieved a significant valuation by developing a robotic arm capable of manipulating diverse objects with high precision and human-like movement.

_{Source: TechCrunch AI}

6. Terminal X matches senior investor judgment 88.6% with GPT-6.1

Terminal X reports that its evaluation agent, powered by GPT-6.1, successfully matches human investment judgment in the vast majority of cases while identifying mandate deviations.

_{Source: OpenAI}

7. Google has joined Amazon in attacking Nvidia’s stronghold with AI app developers

Google has introduced tools to facilitate the migration of PyTorch applications away from Nvidia hardware, intensifying competition in the AI infrastructure market.

_{Source: TechCrunch AI}

8. Meta suspends Muse chats sharing feature after it left private details exposed

Meta temporarily disabled a chat sharing feature after a vulnerability allowed unauthorized access to private conversations and internal company information.

_{Source: Engadget}

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