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Figure to Launch Hark Proactive AI Assistant This Week

Brett Adcock says Hark, the personal AI assistant from his company Hark Labs, launches this week, with a free paid plan for the first 100,000 sign-ups. We set out what Hark’s App Store listing, terms of service and development builds reveal, how its Handoff browser agent scores on benchmarks, the $700 million behind it and the risks of handing an AI agent your logins.

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New AI Tool: Helix 2.5 Has Just Landed on AIxploria

Figure’s Helix 2.5 humanoid AI model got its AIxploria card on 18 September 2026, about 16 hours after Figure’s announcement. We checked it against Figure’s own post: 30 unseen Bay Area homes, 56% zero-shot success against 9% without Index pretraining, 237 of 420 trials (beds 67%, towels 62%, toys 40%). The research numbers hold. The card leaves out the scaling law and the 1.90% cap on any task in pretraining, tags an unbuyable model “Paid”, repeats an unsourced sub-$20,000 price, and its exact #4 badge ranks the model above Figure 03, the robot it runs on.

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