An investigation found Aivres, the unlisted US subsidiary of blacklisted Inspur, exported at least $5.6B in advanced tech to Southeast Asia between April 2024 and February 2026 — including over $3B in servers packed with Nvidia's most advanced Blackwell chips that ended up serving ByteDance and Alibaba. Lawmakers are pushing the Remote Access Security Act to close the cloud loophole.
Broadcom's fiscal Q3 2026 revenue hit $29.6B, with AI chip revenue up 221% to $16.7B. The company guided Q4 AI semiconductor revenue to $21.7B and full-year fiscal 2026 AI revenue to roughly $56-58B, with line of sight beyond $100B in FY2027.
Agility Robotics' S-4 filing reveals just $1.8 million in 2025 revenue against a $140 million operating loss, as it plans to scale production of its Digit humanoid ahead of going public via SPAC.
TGOPD verifies teacher reliability per prompt with small verifier-scored probe sets, then routes prompts to dense on-policy distillation or verifier-grounded GRPO. Across 4B and 35B students it beats vanilla OPD in all six single-domain settings and lifts teacher-node GPU utilization from 9.8% to 78.9%.
A new benchmark tracks how local user revisions propagate through LLM-generated artifacts, evaluating nine revision methods with GPT-OSS, GPT-5.4-mini and Qwen3.5. Selecting from three parallel samples via LLM-based or medoid selection improves accuracy by 2.2-9.7% at the lowest cost.
A Google DeepMind and MIT study maintains a performance-modeling library as a graph of natural-language design docs; coding agents regenerate the implementation on every change, reproducing reference results to round-off precision.
A DeepMind study followed 16 writers for a week using agents with configurable roles and proactivity levels, finding users favor prospective planning and lightweight, non-directive presentation over intrusive interruptions.
NoRA normalizes the LoRA down-projection during training or at initialization, improving convergence, stability and final performance with zero extra parameters or inference cost across pretraining, SFT and RL.
Wang Naiyan, former head of Xiaomi Auto's L3 autonomous driving technology, has left to start a physical AI venture, joining a wave of Chinese automotive talent moving into embodied AI as Xiaomi prepares its own electric car for a robotaxi trial.
Data-center water consumption reached 222 billion liters globally in 2025 and could nearly triple by 2030, but closed-loop liquid cooling is improving efficiency: Nvidia says its DSX design nearly eliminates water use with 45°C coolant, while Microsoft and AWS improved water-use efficiency 25% and 37% between 2022 and 2025.
Researchers from Tohoku University and VISTEC used adversarial inverse reinforcement learning to teach a hexapedal robot stick-insect style locomotion from brief observation, mastering varied terrain in under an hour with a reward network that transfers across body types.
A MassRobotics survey of member companies found the industry evenly split on the FCC's July 2026 decision adding foreign-produced advanced robotics devices — including some mobile robots and humanoids — to its Covered List, with views largely tracking where companies manufacture and source components.
After deploying vision-guided control across over 100 factories and 40M-plus robot cycles, Inbolt's CEO argues physical AI progress in the factory is gated by deployment and part-handling constraints rather than raw training data, as in-hand localization lets robots adjust trajectories mid-move.
Cato closed a €6 million seed round led by Keen Venture Partners, bringing total funding to €7.6 million. Its AI platform tracks more than 27,000 sources to help companies find, analyze and prepare bids for Italian public tenders, and the startup says it has reached 150 active clients.
Led by Ronnie Screwvala with Antler India, Sharad Sanghi, Sandeep Singhal and Paula Mariwala, the round funds Navana's full-stack voice AI for Indian languages, targeting BFSI and regulated enterprises.
Led by EquityPitcher Ventures and High-Tech Gründerfonds, the round funds Jaipur Robotics' computer vision and AI for waste-to-energy, cement and biomass plants — hazard detection, calorific value estimation and crane guidance.
A $25M seed at $225M post-money, led by Elad Gil with Khosla Ventures, Fifth Wall, Lennar and others, funds a hands-free AI copilot for construction field workers that runs on smartphones and Meta glasses.
Free means $0 per token today, not unlimited or unconditional: both platforms rate-limit free use and require a free API key, some OpenRouter free endpoints may train on your prompts unless you opt out in account settings, and the roster changes daily. Verified against each provider's own pricing data at generation time — but pricing changes without notice, so confirm it's still free on the provider's own page before you rely on it.
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