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Tenet Industries, backed by Y Combinator, is developing low-cost, mass-producible strike drones as an alternative to expensive defense systems built by traditional primes.

The AM-ARM200 is a new open-source robotic arm with 6+1 degrees of freedom, 1kg payload, and 52cm reach, available for a $240 BOM, extending the SO-ARM100 philosophy to a more capable class.

Google introduces Gemini 3.5 Flash (Low), a new model variant that uses about 45% fewer tokens than the Medium version while outperforming the older Gemini 3 Flash (High) on SWE tasks. They have also reset quotas for all paid plans.

DeepSeek releases a native coding agent called DeepSeek reasonix, featuring high caching and low cost.

Hugging Face has released LeRobot Humanoid, an open-source, low-cost ($2.5k) 3D-printed humanoid robot designed for robot learning, including hardware, software, simulation, and training tools.

LeRobot Humanoid is an open, low-cost bipedal robot platform for robot learning, including hardware, runtime, identification tools, and training environments, built from 3D-printed and off-the-shelf parts for about $2,500.

A person named billtheinvestor uses a Mac Studio and a Claude subscription to automate generating approximately $18,400/month in revenue through the collaboration of multiple AI agents, without needing a dev team or VC funding, demonstrating an extremely low-cost AI-driven business model.

Three college students used first principles to design a purely mechanical hearing aid costing only $19.99. Customized via AI and 3D printing, it requires no battery or circuitry, and has the potential to make hearing assistance affordable for hundreds of millions worldwide.

IndexKit is a simple, low-cost, tag-based persistent memory system for AI agents that requires no vector database, survives model deprecations, and works with any LLM.

A Chinese startup launches a $3 AI device that creates interactive holograms of deceased loved ones using photos, voice recordings, and chat histories.