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The most recent articles from a list of feeds I subscribe to.

How Disney Imagineering built an Olaf robot, set to arrive at Disneyland Paris this month, and taught it to move via reinforcement learning and simulation (Jacob Krol/TechRadar)

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In an all-hands meeting, Fidji Simo described plans to shift OpenAI's strategy around coding and business users, urging staff to avoid "side quests" (Berber Jin/Wall Street Journal)

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RoboForce, which is developing robotics systems to perform physically demanding industrial work, raised $52M led by YZi Labs, bringing its total funding to $67M (Duncan Riley/SiliconANGLE)

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Nvidia announces the Nemotron Coalition, which includes Thinking Machines Lab, Cursor, and Mistral, to develop an open model trained on Nvidia DGX Cloud (Sebastian Moss/DatacenterDynamics)

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Nscale acquires American Intelligence & Power, which owns a 2,250-acre data center campus in West Virginia, where it plans to build up to 8GW of compute by 2031 (Robbie Whelan/Wall Street Journal)

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Austin-based Ironlight, which is building a regulated marketplace for tokenized securities, raised a $21M Series A; its platform received FINRA approval in 2025 (Ryan Lawler/Axios)

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Manus introduces My Computer, a Windows and macOS app that enables its AI agent to interact directly with the user's local files, tools, and apps (Manus)

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Roche says it has deployed 3,500+ Nvidia Blackwell GPUs, which it calls "the greatest announced GPU footprint available to a pharmaceutical company" (Sebastian Moss/DatacenterDynamics)

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Nvidia says BYD, Geely, Isuzu, and Nissan will use its Drive Hyperion AV platform, and that Uber will launch Hyperion-powered robotaxis across 28 cities by 2028 (Andrew J. Hawkins/The Verge)

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Nvidia unveils Space-1 Vera Rubin for orbital data centers, saying its GPU delivers up to 25x more AI compute for space-based inferencing compared to the H100 (Sebastian Moss/DatacenterDynamics)

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US startup Reflection AI is working with South Korea's Shinsegae Group to build a 250MW data center in South Korea, sources say in a several-billion-dollar deal (Amrith Ramkumar/Wall Street Journal)

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Nvidia announces NemoClaw, which combines the OpenClaw agent platform with components of Nvidia's Agent Toolkit to add privacy and security controls (Frederic Lardinois/The New Stack)

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Nvidia unveils a server rack with 256 Vera CPUs, with each CPU featuring 88 custom Olympus cores and LPDDR5X memory for up to 1.2 TB/s of bandwidth (Tobias Mann/The Register)

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Z.ai launches GLM-5-Turbo, a closed-source, faster, and cheaper variant of GLM-5 optimized for agent-driven workflows and OpenClaw-style tasks (Carl Franzen/VentureBeat)

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Nvidia announces the Nvidia Groq 3 LPX, an inference server rack featuring 256 Groq 3 LPUs and 128GB of on-chip SRAM, available in H2 2026 (Dylan Martin/CRN)

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Jensen Huang says Nvidia expects to generate $1T+ in sales from its flagship AI chips through the end of 2027, after previously forecasting $500B by 2026's end (Ian King/Bloomberg)

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Nvidia unveils DLSS 5, which uses a real-time neural rendering model to add photorealistic lighting to game frames, arriving this fall to RTX 50-series GPUs (Richard Leadbetter/Digital Foundry)

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A recording of Jensen Huang's Nvidia GTC 2026 keynote at the SAP Center in San Jose, California (NVIDIA on YouTube)

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Digital asset wealth management platform Abra plans to go public on Nasdaq via a SPAC merger with New Providence at a $750M pre-money valuation (Stacy Jones/Decrypt)

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A group of Tennessee teenagers sues xAI, alleging its AI tools were used to create nude images of them by editing photos in which they were clothed (Faiz Siddiqui/Washington Post)

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