PONGBOT raises hundreds of millions of RMB in Series B

Former Plaud exec Peter Mo's Ambi raised $26M across multiple rounds led by Luminous Ventures and ODM Huaqin. It is releasing iPhone, Mac, and Apple Watch apps that listen continuously, with an agent that surfaces suggestions mid-meeting and lets tasks move between devices.

A European Commission filing, reported by MacRumors, shows Apple structured the deal as a "reverse acqui-hire": it hired Huxe's founders and core team and paid a licensing fee for the technology without buying the company. Huxe was founded by former team members who built Gemini Notebook's podcast-making features.

Amazon runs over 1 million warehouse robots alongside 1.5 million human workers, per its 2025 annual report, and plans new factories to expand the fleet. George Mason's Brian Greenwood says collaborative robots differ from past automation because they work physically close to people and set the pace of work.

A developer built a free Android app that reads receipt photos into JSON — store, date, total, and every line item — using a fine-tuned 0.8B vision model running locally, so receipts never leave the phone. An iOS version is pending Apple review.

An r/OpenAI thread asks which specific parts of work AI tools make easier for people with ADHD, pushing back on vague "AI improves productivity" claims. Suggested angles include breaking fuzzy tasks into a first step, immediate feedback, and capturing ideas quickly.

Reddit users report ChatGPT now addresses them by name more often before responding and displays richer visual elements, prompting speculation about an unannounced update.