{
  "id": 7438121,
  "title": "Travis Kalanick's robotics startup taps Meta veteran for top AI role",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/09/15/travis-kalanicks-robotics-startup-taps-meta-veteran-for-top-ai-role",
  "topic": "ai",
  "section": "AI",
  "published": "2026-09-15T00:44:48.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Business Insider",
    "slug": "business-insider",
    "url": "https://www.businessinsider.com/travis-kalanick-robotics-startup-taps-meta-veteran-top-ai-role-2026-9"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": "Travis Kalanick's robotics startup, Atoms, has hired Vikas Chandra, a former Meta executive who led AI work for the company's smart glasses. Chandra will serve as vice president of AI, focusing on building foundation models for the physical world. He joined Atoms following a $1.7 billion funding round led by Andreessen Horowitz. Atoms, which plans to build robots for industries like food, mining, and transportation, did not respond to requests for comment.",
  "summary": "Vikas Chandra, a longtime Meta AI executive who led AI work for the company's smart glasses, is joining Atoms.",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
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  "coverage": {
    "outlets": 2,
    "also_reported_by": [
      {
        "outlet": "TechRadar",
        "title": "Meta enlists tiny Korean startup to build 'one-chip-like datacenter' — CXL architecture introduced by Facebook's parent company and Panmnesia can handle almost 1000 AI GPUs per domain",
        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/09/13/meta-enlists-tiny-korean-startup-to-build-one-chip-like-datacenter",
        "published": "2026-09-13T22:35:00.000Z"
      }
    ]
  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}