News Summary

• Travis Kalanick's new robotics startup, Atoms, has scooped up a high-profile hire.
• Vikas Chandra, a longtime Meta AI executive who led AI work for the company's smart glasses, announced Monday that he is joining the startup as vice president of AI.
• Chandra said he will build "foundation models for the physical world" — AI systems designed to help machines understand and act in real-world environments.
• Atoms raised $1.7 billion earlier this summer in a round led by Andreessen Horowitz.