TechSambad Jun 12, 2026: Robots, Rockets, and the Agent Swarm

A curated roundup of the most impactful stories in AI, technology, and research — handpicked to keep you informed and ahead of the curve.

1 Cheaper, faster, and culturally aware, Avataar’s video AI is built for India’s scale

Avataar AI's distilled video model is priced at $0.005 for every second of generation

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2 Theker just raised $85M to build the factory robot that doesn’t specialize in anything

Unlike humanoid robots designed around a fixed form — think Boston Dynamics — Theker's machines are built to be reconfigured.

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3 Jeff Bezos’s Prometheus raises $12B to build an ‘artificial general engineer’ for the physical world

The new round values the physical AI startup that aims to automate heavy engineering and drug design at $41 billion.

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4 SpaceX officially prices shares at $135 in the largest IPO ever

Wits its official share pricing announcement, SpaceX's IPO has begun.

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5 Google DeepMind is worried about what happens when millions of agents start to interact

Google DeepMind is funding research into the potential dangers of situations where millions of different AI agents interact with each other online. According to Rohin Shah, who directs the company’s...

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6 Perplexity Moves Deep Research Into Computer, Routing Research Subtasks Across 20+ Frontier Models For Reports, Decks, And Dashboards

Deep Research now lives inside Perplexity Computer, breaking hard questions into subtasks and routing across 20+ frontier models. The post Perplexity Moves Deep Research Into Computer, Routing Research Subtasks Across...

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7 xAI Ships Grok Build Plugin Marketplace With MongoDB, Vercel, Sentry, Chrome DevTools, Cloudflare, and Superpowers Plugins at Launch

Grok Build's in-terminal marketplace bundles skills, agents, hooks, and MCP servers, with commit-SHA verification on every remote plugin. The post xAI Ships Grok Build Plugin Marketplace With MongoDB, Vercel, Sentry,...

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8 Nous Research Ships Hermes Agent Profile Builder: Identity, Model, Skills, and MCP Servers in One Dashboard Flow

The Hermes Agent dashboard now builds complete agent profiles in one flow, replacing multi-step CLI setup for users. The post Nous Research Ships Hermes Agent Profile Builder: Identity, Model, Skills,...

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9 Guide to Propensity Score Matching for Causal Inference to Estimate True Impact

One of the core challenges of data science is drawing meaningful causal conclusions from observational data. In many such cases, the goal is to estimate the true impact of a...

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10 Grow your LinkedIn Scarily Fast (For Data Scientists) with This AI Workflow

What if I told you, you often lose your next big role to someone much less credible than you? Unjust, yes, but certainly not untrue. Here is the reality: recruiters,...

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