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1. 21h
   Tsinghua prize winner's world-model startup reported at $600M valuation after three rounds

   Wu Haixu, a 2022 winner of Tsinghua University's top scholarship, has founded a world-model startup called Wuyuan Technology (物原科技), which has already closed three funding rounds and reached a reported valuation of about $600 million (roughly RMB 4 billion), according to QbitAI. Investors named in the report include Ant Group, Meituan, Dachen Caizhi and Xinglian. The company is said to focus on world models with physical modeling capability, partly extending GeoPT — a February paper Wu co-authored as first author that uses synthetic dynamics to lift static geometry into dynamic space so models learn physical intuition from particle trajectories without labels. Wu is currently a postdoc at MIT CSAIL with Wojciech Matusik; GeoPT co-authors also included Tsinghua associate professor Long Mingsheng and MIT's He Kaiming. The valuation and deal details come from people familiar with the matter and have not been confirmed by the company.

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2. 1d
   MIT Strands AI Agent Eko on a Virtual Island for 30 Hours

   A team at MIT CSAIL placed Eko, an agent powered by Claude Code with a virtual lobster-like body, in a bounded virtual island containing movable blocks, a rock and a golden ring, and let 13 instances roam freely for up to 30 hours with little instruction. The Ekos spelled their name with blocks, built a “temple” and a Stonehenge-like monument, and erected a memorial for objects lost to the simulated ocean; one stacked blocks to reach a spire previously out of reach. The researchers say the agents' chain-of-thought transcripts show a quasi-scientific loop of observation, hypothesis and experiment, and that six of them independently discovered a mid-jump block throw that its designers had not coded in.

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3. Oct 9
   Why we can't help treating AI like a human — and whether we should

   A TechCrunch reporter visiting MIT CSAIL met two Unitree humanoid robots — priced around $50,000 each according to his guide, though the vendor says $16,000 — and instinctively shook one's hand and greeted it. At MIT Future Fest, Sherry Turkle, who has studied human-computer relationships since joining MIT in 1976, launched her book "Artificial Intimacy," arguing people believe relational artifacts care for them and are wired to care back. MIT Media Lab's Pat Pataranutaporn, who founded the Cyborg Psychology group, asks who we become when we talk to AI; he served as an expert in a wrongful-death lawsuit involving Character.AI.

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