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Gemini Robotics 2.0 Full-Body Control, Simile $2B — 2026-07-31 00:00

Google DeepMind ships Gemini Robotics 2.0 for whole-body robot control, Simile hits $2B valuation, Nscale buys Anyscale, Okta acquires Permiso, Commonwealth Fusion raises $1B, and more.

1. Google DeepMind unveils Gemini Robotics 2.0 for whole-body robot control — Three physical AI models: whole-body control, dexterity, and multi-robot collaboration. The Verge · Jul 30
2. Simile raises $200M at $2B valuation, five months after $100M Series A — Synthetic-user startup's explosive funding velocity signals demand for AI agent testing infrastructure. TechCrunch · Jul 30
3. Nscale buys Anyscale to own more of the AI compute stack — British AI neocloud acquires the company behind Ray, consolidating hardware and software layers. TechCrunch · Jul 30
4. Okta acquires AI security startup Permiso for ~$200M — Identity threat detection for AI agents and non-human identities across cloud environments. TechCrunch · Jul 30
5. Commonwealth Fusion Systems raises another $1B for commercial fusion — Startup moves toward first power plant as fusion investment signals shift from science fiction to engineering. TechCrunch · Jul 30
6. Meta says AI is making it dramatically easier to build and launch apps — Zuck tells investors more consumer products are on the way, as AI-assisted development becomes the default inside big tech. TechCrunch · Jul 30
7. Friend AI wearable returns with a new voice and a much bigger price tag — The AI companion hardware adds voice capabilities as the "AI as a person" category refuses to die. TechCrunch · Jul 30
8. LinkedIn adds "seems like AI slop" reporting button — Platform also replaces its own AI writing tool with proofreading, acknowledging AI-generated content is a quality problem. TechCrunch · Jul 30
9. Moonshot AI open-sources MoonEP, an MIT-licensed expert parallelism library — Balanced MoE training tool ensures every expert parallelism rank gets exactly S×K tokens. Marktechpost · Jul 30
10. Google says AI helped fix more Chrome bugs in June than the previous two years combined — LLMs finding vulnerabilities at a pace human reviewers can't match. TechCrunch · Jul 30

🧪 Try This Next

• 🔧 Read the Gemini Robotics 2.0 breakdown — whole-body control is a genuine milestone for physical AI
• 🎥 Check out Moonshot's MoonEP if you're working with MoE architectures — MIT-licensed and balanced
• 📝 The Okta-Permiso deal is a signal — identity security for AI agents is going to be a massive market

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