The agreement, reported by The Verge on September 14, 2026, includes at least partial support for a proposal that would embed third-party auditors in AI labs.
Reward AI, a robotics startup founded by researchers behind DexCap, HumanPlus, and ALOHA, has unveiled OM-1 (Omnibody Model 1), a general-purpose manipulation policy trained exclusively on human demonstrations captured with a sensorized glove.
At TechCrunch's StrictlyVC event in New York on Thursday night, Insight Partners managing director Deven Parekh made a case that has become contrarian in modern venture capital: his firm is deliberately staying diversified while rivals concentrate their bets on frontier AI labs such as OpenAI and Anthropic.