Tesla Robotaxi Reaches 8 Cities, Optimus May Be Rented, Agility Goes Public, Claude Fable and Mythos 5.2, Gemini for Healthcare

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A self-driving car, a waving robot and an AI chip — Tesla Robotaxi, Optimus, Agility, Claude 5.2, Gemini for Healthcare

Tesla Robotaxi expands to San Antonio, its 8th city, and passes Waymo in Texas registrations

Tesla started its Robotaxi service in San Antonio, Texas, at 5 a.m. local time on November 9. Its service area of about 272 square miles is reported to be its largest yet.
That makes eight cities: five in Texas (Austin, Houston, San Antonio, Dallas and Fort Worth) and three in Florida (Miami, Orlando and Tampa). The service uses Model Y cars; the Cybercab runs only in Austin so far.
On the Texas DMV list of registered autonomous vehicles, Tesla had 1,302 (729 Model Ys and 573 Cybercabs) as of November 10, five more than Waymo's 1,297. These are registrations, not the number of cars actually on the road or rides given.

In an interview at the Baron Investment Conference, Elon Musk was asked whether Tesla would sell or rent its Optimus humanoid robots. "I think probably rent them," he said (reported November 6).
On cost, he said it would be about the same as a car at first, "but then over time it would be much less." He agreed it could start around $30,000 per robot and fall toward $20,000.
He did not give a rental price. The first deliveries to outside companies are expected around the end of 2027.

Agility Robotics, maker of the Digit warehouse robot, began trading on Nasdaq under the ticker AGLT on November 5. It is the first US-listed company built entirely around humanoid robots.
It went public by merging with a SPAC. Reports put its value at about $2.5 billion and the money raised at about $465 million. The shares closed their first day at $11.51.
The company says it has more than $300 million in multi-year orders, but its revenue last year was only about $1.8 million.
The same week, a humanoid robot lined up with human runners in an Antarctic ultra-marathon, but its battery gave out in the freezing cold after less than two miles.

On November 9, Anthropic released Claude Fable 5.2 and Claude Mythos 5.2, its most capable models. Both are built on the same underlying model. Anthropic says they produce output up to 30% faster than 5.1, with better coding, reasoning and vision.
Fable 5.2 is available on all platforms today (API name claude-fable-5-2). Mythos 5.2 is limited to organizations admitted to its cybersecurity and life sciences verification programs.
Pricing is $8 per million input tokens and $40 per million output tokens. Some reports say that is 20% lower than the previous Fable.
Anthropic says the two models voiced suspicion that they were being evaluated more often than any of its recent models, which makes it harder to judge how they will behave in real-world use.

On November 10, Google released a US preview of a Gemini agent for healthcare organizations. It runs on Google's Gemini and Anthropic's Claude models.
It has more than two dozen connectors, including Epic and Oracle Health records, Medicare coverage rules and diagnosis codes. It merges scattered records into one timeline and flags missing tests or consent forms before a visit.
It also drafts prior authorization packets and appeals, but clinicians and reviewers make the final decision. Google says patient data is not used to train its foundation models.
OpenAI and Anthropic launched similar healthcare offerings in January.