Artificial Intelligence
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NVIDIA has launched an open safety architecture that moves AI-agent controls below the model and into the software, CPU and hardware layers that execute an agent’s work, including robots operating in the physical world. According to the company, the new Open Agent Safety Platform combines open-source OpenShell runtime software with a Sentry reference design that…
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AMD is making one of its largest bets yet on the software side of artificial intelligence, agreeing to acquire Fei-Fei Li’s World Labs in an all-stock transaction valued at approximately $8.2 billion. According to the chipmaker, World Labs will bring model researchers and spatial-intelligence expertise directly into AMD as the company develops future AI hardware,…
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xAI’s Memphis AI buildout is becoming an energy-storage project on the scale of a power plant. Satellite imagery reviewed by Canary Media shows 720 Tesla Megapack containers at the Colossus 2 campus, while xAI and local utility officials have described a multi-gigawatt-hour battery system designed to let the supercomputer shed grid load when electricity is…
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XDOF is moving unusually fast for a robotics infrastructure startup. Less than three months after emerging from stealth with a $70 million Series A, the Berkeley-founded company is reportedly in late-stage talks for a new Series B that could value it at roughly $1.2 billion. The reported talks matter because XDOF is not primarily selling…
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Flexiv’s seven-axis Rizon 4 is now supported in NVIDIA Isaac and serves as reference hardware for a contact-rich DisplayPort insertion workflow trained in simulation.
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Schneider Electric’s new Motivair WCDU delivers up to 3.5 MW of cooling per unit and can coordinate up to 20 units for 30–40 MW AI data halls.
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SolarEdge and Infineon are extending their collaboration into one of the least glamorous but most important pieces of 800 VDC AI infrastructure: fault protection. The companies are developing solid-state circuit breakers designed to isolate DC faults in a few microseconds, targeting the distribution layer between high-efficiency power conversion and the compute rack. The companies say…
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LITEON Technology is moving deeper into the physical infrastructure behind AI computing. The Taiwan-based power-electronics company plans to acquire roughly 25% of Warsaw-based DCX Liquid Cooling Systems in a transaction valued at about $176 million, combining rack-level power delivery with direct liquid cooling for high-density AI and HPC systems. The company says the transaction is…
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Meta unveiled Muse Charm at Connect 2026, giving its new personal AI agent a dedicated pocket-sized device alongside AI glasses and a rapidly expanding connector ecosystem.
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Apple’s new M5 Ultra Mac Studio can scale local AI across Thunderbolt 5 and RDMA, with four Macs demonstrated running a trillion-parameter model while offering up to 512GB unified memory per system.
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Aeva and LG Innotek are moving FMCW 4D lidar toward production, with Omni robot sensors targeted for 2027 and Atlas Ultra automotive lidar targeted for 2028.
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Samsung and Mistral AI are developing secure on-premises AI models for semiconductor design and manufacturing, with Samsung also leading investment in Mistral.
