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    DeepMind Ships Gemini Robotics 2.5 — Apollo 2 Hits 96% at Mercedes
    • Nov 10 launch: most capable Gemini vision-language-action model to date, paired with a Gemini Robotics ER planner.
    • Apptronik Apollo 2 humanoids hit 96% on auto-parts kitting on live Mercedes-Benz lines in Kecskemét, Hungary and Sindelfingen, Germany.
    • 30–100% higher success vs prior baselines across 200 manipulation tasks; harder multi-step jobs still land 40–75%.
    • Open-sourced ASIMOV-Jailbreak safety benchmark — DeepMind reports 99.5% resistance for Gemini 4 Argon vs 82% for Gemini Robotics ER 2.
    • Rolling out to robotics partners only; no public API or pricing disclosed.
    models deepmind.google

    Anthropic Prices IPO at $70–$78, Lines Up $26B Anchor from Nvidia, Google, AMD
    • Roadshow terms (Nov 10): 825M Class A shares on Nasdaq Global Select under ticker `ANT`; implied raise $57.8B–$64.4B, up to $74B with the greenshoe.
    • Implied valuation up to ~$1.4T, trimmed from earlier $2T talk as the AI stock selloff cools expectations.
    • $26B concurrent private placement to AMD, Broadcom, Google, Micron, Microsoft, Nvidia, and TSMC at the IPO price.
    • Pricing expected Nov 18; trading debut targeted for Nov 19 per CNBC/Bloomberg reporting.
    • Supersedes the Nov 11 roadshow write-up — final price range and anchor list weren't public at that time.
    industry anthropic.com

    Chrome's Modern Web Guidance Hits #1 on GitHub Trending
    • `GoogleChrome/modern-web-guidance-src` tops daily trending with +739 stars; source repo at 3.5k, 1,592 commits on main, Apache-2.0.
    • 128 web platform features and 100+ expert-vetted use cases packaged as agent skills to keep coding agents off legacy patterns.
    • Google's internal benchmark: 37-point gain in modern best-practice adherence when a generic agent loads the pack.
    • Installs via `/plugin marketplace add GoogleChrome/modern-web-guidance` in Claude Code, `gh skill install` on the GitHub CLI, or `npx modern-web-guidance@latest install`.
    • Co-maintained by the Chrome DevRel and Microsoft Edge teams — first real cross-vendor browser-platform skill set for agents.
    tools github.com

    CopilotKit's OpenBot Lands on Trending as Self-Hosted Grok Bot Alternative
    • +298 stars today to 11.8k on GitHub daily trending; MIT-licensed, v0.0.7 shipped since the Nov 1 launch.
    • Each AI coworker provisioned with its own browser, files, and tools; every tool call logged through policy-gated execution.
    • AG-UI bridge lets agents built on LangGraph, Mastra, CrewAI, and Pydantic AI plug in without rewriting.
    • Framed as an `alpha template` — not a hosted service — explicitly pitched against xAI's Grok Bot and OpenAI's Dots.
    open-source github.com

    Meta's Astryx Compounds From 22k to 27k Stars in Four Days
    • +1,830 stars today pushes Meta's agent-ready React design system to 26.8k total, sustaining the Nov 9 launch spike into a week-long climb.
    • ossinsight now ranks it global #2,059 among active GitHub repos; TypeScript, MIT.
    • CLI + MCP server scaffold UI from design tokens for Claude Code, Codex, and Cursor without hand-written component grabs.
    • Head-to-head posts this week keep placing it directly against shadcn/ui and MUI — the comparison set has shifted from component libraries to agent-native systems.
    tools github.com

    addyosmani/agent-skills Keeps Climbing — +816 Stars to 116.8k
    • Daily-trending return at +816 stars; spec→plan→build→verify→review→ship toolkit now sits at 116.8k total.
    • 25 skills, 9 slash commands (`/spec`, `/plan`, `/build`, `/test`, `/review`, `/ship`), 4 agent personas.
    • Evidence gates (passing tests, runtime data) and anti-rationalization tables designed to stop agents from faking green CI.
    • Portable Markdown — runs under Claude Code, Cursor, Codex, Gemini CLI, and GitHub Copilot.
    open-source github.com