Follow the change ·
What happened in AI and robotics — and the change behind it. A reading path through 19 stories from BIG CHANGE.
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Dropbox plans AI storage and a Tigris acquisition.
Developers will be able to buy storage independently.
Supported applications use an S3-compatible interface.
Further capabilities remain planned.
Pangram reports image and video detector results.
Image 1.0 produces a heatmap of suspected AI-generated regions.
Flash checks video frame by frame.
Results are signals for investigation, not proof of origin.
Finpilot says its agents prepare investment-office research and reports for human review.
The November 4 funding backs a product aimed at institutions that receive investment information across reports and disconnected systems.
Finpilot describes configured workflows that prepare evidence and stop for human review at specified decision points.
For firms assessing AI-assisted extraction, the value of a draft depends on whether staff can check it and manage errors.
Atmospheric AI describes software for modeling material costs, carbon and supply risk.
Atmospheric says its platform models raw-material supply chains from origin to factory gate, connecting estimates of cost, carbon and risk.
Buyers could use such estimates to question a supplier’s price or investigate alternatives, subject to the underlying data and model quality.
Its estimates need independent verification.
Images 2.6 is available across ChatGPT and Codex, while GIF creation is rolling out in ChatGPT.
Users can request looping GIFs or animate a sketch as the ChatGPT feature becomes available.
API developers can choose Flare or Sunburst and adjust image quality separately from planning complexity.
OpenAI claims faster generation and better consistency across edits; BIG CHANGE has not tested those claims.
Phaze says its remote desktop and management tools let people and agents share access to workstations.
Phaze says employees and agents can connect to workstations rather than each having a dedicated machine.
Its experimental MCP server gives compatible agents a way to operate a permitted computer and hand control to a person.
The promised efficiency is not an independently measured result.
Codex already uses Pierre review tools; Code Storage integration is planned after closing.
Trees and Diffs already help Codex users navigate files and review changes.
Code Storage features are planned for Codex after closing; OpenAI has not given an integration date.
Pierre's open-source projects will remain open-source, OpenAI says, and Code Storage customers can continue using the service after closing.
Toyota will establish a robotics organization in January 2027.
The new organization will gather robotics functions under corporate oversight and work with development departments.
Toyota intends to connect the effort to manufacturing needs and move robots toward practical use and commercialization.
The decision reorganizes work; it does not announce a new robot or demonstrate a deployment.
