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Schaeffler opens a humanoid robot joint module factory in Taicang, with humanoid robots participating in production

Schaeffler has opened an approximately 7,500-square-meter Lighthouse Factory in Taicang, China, using 6 humanoid robots at 5 workstations to produce linear and rotary actuators for use by other humanoid robots. The factory features assembly lines, a training and data collection center, a digital twin platform, and a data center, with production processes virtually mapped and pre-tested via the digital twin. Schaeffler previously announced plans to deploy hundreds of humanoid robots in its own factories over the next five years, and has reached an agreement with Humanoid to supply four-digit numbers of robots by 2032.

Pure Storage rebrands as Everpure, launches Data Intelligence in shift toward data intelligence

Pure Storage has rebranded as Everpure and launched Data Intelligence software, designed to identify and classify structured and unstructured data across storage locations and add metadata and semantic context to make it easier for AI agents to use. The software supports SMB and NFS file shares and S3 object storage, and offers nearly 300 connectors that can integrate with other vendors' storage systems, SaaS applications such as Salesforce and ServiceNow, and mainframes, without requiring data to be migrated to a central location. The newly added File Intelligence can analyze access permissions and file age on file shares, and the newly integrated MCP lets AI agents query the data catalog, but they do not automatically gain permission to read the corresponding data.

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Scaled Cognition Launches Customer Service Voice Model Voice

Scaled Cognition has released Voice, a text-to-speech model that supports more than 25 languages and voice cloning, and can be accessed via API or deployed self-hosted. It focuses on accurately reading aloud details such as account numbers and addresses. Managed API pricing is $9 per million characters, while self-hosting costs $1 per million characters (excluding infrastructure). The company says that at a scale of 5 million characters, including infrastructure, the cost is about $13 per million characters, and it claims a speech generation latency of 70 milliseconds. Voice's Smart Pronunciation capability first determines the meaning of abbreviations and numbers before generating audio—for example, reading "Pay 1/2 by 1/2" as "pay half by January second"—and it can run without relying on APT or other large language models.

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The U.S. Department of Homeland Security requires civilian agencies to remove DeepSeek and its derivative products

The U.S. Department of Homeland Security, pursuant to the 2018 Federal Acquisition Supply Chain Security Act, requires U.S. civilian agencies to remove DeepSeek and DeepSeek-related products, as well as third-party products and services developed using DeepSeek, from information technology systems. DHS states that DeepSeek's hosted models store data on servers in China, with every prompt and response passing through that service, and that the data may be combined with public information to form actionable intelligence targeting U.S. personnel and government programs; for model weights running on U.S. servers, the ban relies on warnings that the models may contain malware or other vulnerabilities. Exceptions require an application submitted 60 days in advance with sufficient justification, and systems in national security systems and secure isolated information systems are outside the scope of the order; the only Chinese model named in the order is DeepSeek, while Kimi and Qwen face similar distillation allegations.

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AI work assistant startup Town raises $108 million, reaching a $1 billion valuation to join the unicorn ranks

AI work assistant startup Town has raised a $108 million Series B at a $1 billion valuation, bringing its total funding to $160 million. Town was co-founded by former Plaid CTO Jean-Denis Greze and launched its AI assistant called townies in June, with annualized revenue reaching several million dollars within weeks. Each employee is equipped with a Townie that can connect to systems such as email and calendars and share information with other Townies, and enterprises can retain these context assets.

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DeepSeek Opens Up Search and Fetch Search APIs, Charging $0.75 per Thousand Requests

DeepSeek is opening its in-house search engine to external developers through two new APIs, Search and Fetch, which can retrieve real-time web search results and webpage body text. It charges $0.75 per 1,000 successful requests, requires no additional model calls, and can be used in applications powered by other vendors' models. Search returns ranked results with titles, URLs, snippets, and summaries, while Fetch returns the content of a single webpage in Markdown format; the company says the engine handles hundreds of millions of requests per day and its index contains hundreds of billions of webpages. The release coincides with a minor version update, DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash-1017. The API documentation shows that each account is limited to 5 Search and 5 Fetch requests per second, a single search returns at most 50 results, and only requests that return results are billed.