AMD buys Fei-Fei Li's World Labs for $8.2B; Marble API stays live
All-stock deal folds a spatial-AI lab into a chipmaker. Plus: MIT-licensed egress guardrails for agents, and 7 tiny LLMs that run in-browser.
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Your Marble pipeline is safe today — watch Q1 2027
AMD is buying Fei-Fei Li's World Labs in an $8.2B all-stock deal, closing by year-end, with Li becoming AMD's chief scientist. The Marble/World API keeps running at today's ~$0.12–$1.28-per-world pricing and exports to Blender, Unity, Unreal and Isaac Sim, but access, pricing and any open-weight spatial models are the Q1 2027 question — AMD's answer to Nvidia's Cosmos.
Egress guardrails that decide before the tool call
OpenAPPA (MIT, Rust with Python bindings) sits between an agent and its tools and answers one question before every action: is this data allowed to reach this destination? It enforces declarative TOML policies in-process or as a sidecar, and its own benchmarks claim 94.3% task completion at 0% attack success — timely if this week's agent-breach headlines have you locking down data egress.
Seven tiny LLMs, running in your browser tab
MicroLLM Lab loads seven small models quantized to Q4 and runs them fully client-side over WebGPU — no server, no API key, nothing leaves the tab. It's an open playground for gauging how far a tiny local model gets you, and a clean reference if you want to ship browser-native inference this weekend.