Nvidia’s Robot Blueprint Puts a Chinese Chassis at the Center
Nvidia’s vision for humanoid robots now has a blueprint. The company this week released Isaac GR00T, its first open-source reference design for a humanoid robot, a specification sheet and software…
Intel Wins Google’s TPU Business in a Foundry Breakthrough
Google has ordered more than three million of its custom TPU AI chips from Intel’s foundry, with production scheduled for 2028, according to people familiar with the agreement. The order…
Amazon Locks Up Fiber in a Multibillion-Dollar Deal With Corning
Amazon has signed a long-term agreement to buy fiber-optic cable from Corning worth billions of dollars, as the company races to connect the data centers powering its AI buildout, according…
WeChat Opens Its Mini-Program Empire to AI Agents
WeChat, the messaging app that runs the daily lives of more than a billion people in China, has opened its doors to AI agents. The company said it is letting…
Amazon and Nvidia Put $1.4 Billion Into German Robot Maker Neura
Neura Robotics, a German company founded in 2019 by engineer David Reger, has closed a $1.4 billion Series C round with Amazon and Nvidia among the investors, according to people…
TSMC Flags Higher Prices as AI Demand Strains Its Lines
Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co., the world’s largest contract chip maker, is signaling that its customers should expect to pay more. Chief Financial Officer Wendell Huang said inflation has pushed up…
Warner Music Buys an AI-Tracing Startup to Track Its Catalog
Warner Music Group said Tuesday it has acquired Sureel AI, a company whose technology builds a unique “AI-DNA” signature for each piece of music and tracks how AI models use…
Global Smartwatch Shipments Rose 4.8% in the First Quarter
The smartwatch market is growing again, slowly. Worldwide wrist-worn device shipments reached 47.05 million units in the first quarter, up 2.2% from a year earlier, and smartwatches specifically totaled 37.03…
TSMC’s May Sales Rise 30% as AI Demand Holds
HSINCHU, Taiwan—The monthly revenue sheet Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. released Wednesday morning carried the number the market had been waiting for: May revenue of NT$416.98 billion, or about $13.2 billion,…
OpenAI Nears Lease on 10-Gigawatt Ohio Data Center
PIKETON, Ohio—The site along the Ohio River once enriched uranium for America’s nuclear arsenal. Within a decade, it could host the largest data center on earth, and OpenAI is negotiating…
