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Here’s what’s on the menu today:

• 2 AI drones > 100 soldiers ✈️ 💥

  Anduril Industries unveiled the ISR and Bolt-M drones.

• Your robot chauffeur = 30k bucks 🦾 🤖

  Tesla unveiled the Cybercab, Robovan, and Optimus updates.

• Fix your song in 10 seconds 📻 🔊

  Suno launched its Replace Section feature.

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MAIN COURSE

Your next drone = all AI, no mercy ✈️ 💥

On Thursday, Anduril Industries announced its Bolt family of drones. They’re compact, AI-powered drones designed for military surveillance and strike missions.

What are the models?

It comes in 2 versions: Bolt for surveillance (ISR) and Bolt-M for precision strikes. Both are portable and deploy quickly with minimal training.

What’s so great about them?

They use Anduril's Lattice AI platform to automate flight and tracking, which reduces the need for skilled pilots.

What can it do?

It can carry up to 3 lbs of munitions, attack targets from virtually any angle, and stay airborne for 40 minutes with a range exceeding 12 miles.

What else has Anduril done?

Back in May, we reported on Anduril’s Pulsar family. It comes in two versions: Pulsar V (vehicle-mounted) and Pulsar A (aerial drone-based).

Last month, we covered Anduril’s partnership with Microsoft. The goal is to upgrade the U.S. Army's mixed-reality headsets, known as IVAS.

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SIDE SALAD

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On Wednesday, Tesla held its We, Robot event. Tesla unveiled the Cybercab, Robovan, and updates on the Optimus humanoid robot.

What’s up with the Cybercab?

It’s a two-seater autonomous electric vehicle without a steering wheel or pedals that allegedly costs less than $30,000.

Moar…

Ok… It’s powered by inductive charging, the operating costs are estimated to be $0.20-$0.30 per mile, and production will “probably” start in 2026 or “before 2027.”

Cool. What about Optimus?

Tesla showcased its humanoid robot interacting with attendees, serving drinks, and playing games. Musk claimed it could perform tasks like babysitting, lawn mowing, and more. The price will be $20,000-$30,000 at scale.

Sweet, I want one.

Me too, but Tesla’s demonstrations were not fully autonomous, they were teleoperated during the demonstrations.

Bummer… Tell me about the Robovan.

It’s an autonomous vehicle that’s positioned as a solution for urban mass transit. It features an art deco design and can hold up to 20 passengers or cargo. No specific production timeline was provided.

What else has Tesla been up to?

Last year, we covered Tesla’s supercomputer. It’s an AI cluster with 10,000 NVIDIA H100 GPUs. It also invested over $1 billion to develop its own supercomputer called Dojo.

In April, we reported on the Robotaxi’s debut. It’s an autonomous vehicle without pedals or a steering wheel that Musk claimed would be on the road in 2020.

A LITTLE SOMETHING EXTRA

AI songwriter = slightly more usable 📻 🔊

On Tuesday, Suno launched its Replace Section feature. It allows you to easily replace specific sections of AI-generated songs.

What dat thing do?

Replace Section allows you to edit lyrics or add instrumental breaks to your songs.

How does it work?

You can select a song section, highlight lyrics, and rewrite them directly.

Why do I care?

It gives you more control over your song’s content, allows you to change repetitive/odd lyrics, and more.

So it’s perfect?

Not even close. Single-word edits aren't possible due to the 10-second minimum. The AI lyric generator option is still available, but may produce similar results.

How do I use it?

If you’re a Pro or Premium Suno user, you can use it now.

What else has Suno done lately?

In July, we reported Suno’s mobile app launch. It allows you to create full-length, AI generated songs from your mobile device.

Last September, we covered Suno’s Cover feature. It's a new beta feature that transforms your music into different styles while keeping the original melody.

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Think Pieces 🧠

An AI-powered tongue? Researchers developed a graphene “tongue” that can accurately distinguish between similar drinks like Coke and Pepsi.

AI discovers 160,000 new species of virus. University of Sydney researchers used LucaProt to find new RNA species, marking the largest virus discovery in a single study.

John Hopfield and Geoffrey Hinton won the Nobel Prize in Physics. The prize is for developing artificial neural networks that transformed the science and medicine industries.

Startup News 💰

Google DeepMind claims Gemini can handle up to 50% of information requests in its legal department. This allows employees to focus on more important tasks.

Zoom introduced AI Avatars. They can create and send short messages on your behalf during meetings and will be available next year.

Research 👨‍🔬

Only-IF — research that proves diversifying training instructions across multiple semantic domains is essential for AI models to generalize to new tasks.

LongGenBench — a new benchmark designed to evaluate large language models' ability to generate coherent and logically consistent long-context text.

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