Artificial Intelligence
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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.
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Positron AI raised $875 million at a $5 billion valuation to tape out Asimov silicon, ramp Titan systems and scale memory-first inference after deploying 50-plus Atlas racks at Oracle Cloud.
