About75 PostsHardwareHow Nvidia Uses AI to Design Chips: Chipmaker's models design circuits, verify designs, and test new layoutsNvidia’s chief scientist dreams of telling an AI model to design a new GPU, then skiing for a couple days while the system does the job.HardwareHumanoid Robots Work Factory Floors: Agiliy Digits humanoid robots fetch and carry bins at a Schaeffler auto-parts factory, displacing humans into higher-level jobsA small number of humanoid robots have made their way into industrial settings, where they’re roughly matching the cost of human labor and propelling some workers into higher-level roles.HardwareGLM 5.1 Aims for Long-Running Tasks: Z.ai’s GLM 5.1 evaluates interim results and may change its approach hundreds of times before it delivers final outputZ.ai updated its flagship open-weights large language model to work autonomously on single tasks for up to eight hours.HardwareOpenAI Tracks Agent States on AWS: OpenAI’s deal with Amazon to build a stateful runtime environment for AI agentsOpenAI partnered with Amazon to build infrastructure for agents on the world’s largest cloud platform, a further sign that its close relationship with Microsoft is weakening.HardwareOpen-Source Speed Demon: Nvidia’s open Nemotron 3 Super 120B-A12B model sets new paces in its classNvidia, the dominant supplier of AI chips, released a competitive open-source large language model whose speed tops its size class — the first open-weights leader to come from the United States since last year, when Meta delivered Llama 4.HardwareDeepSeek Snubs Nvidia for Huawei: DeepSeek made its upcoming 4.0 model available for performance testing to Chinese chipmakers but not U.S, onesDeepSeek, the Chinese developer of outstanding open-weights models, has withheld an upcoming update of its flagship model from U.S. chip makers, a move that intensifies the AI rivalry between the U.S. and China.HardwareDrones Hit Persian Gulf Data Centers: Iran struck AWS facilities in Bahrain and the UAE, threatened data centers throughout the regionIran hit at least three Amazon data centers in the Middle East, an indicator of AI’s critical role in the United States’ war against Iran and possibly the first time such facilities have been targeted during warfare.HardwareAI Data Centers Go Off the Grid: Rather than rely on public utilities, AI companies build their own power plantsMeta and OpenAI are among the tech companies that are building private power plants that will operate independently of regional grids to supply electricity for their massive buildout of AI data centers.HardwareCan Local AI Stand In for the Cloud?: Stanford and Together.AI researchers chart edge models’ performance in intelligence per wattProjected demand for output from large language models is spurring a massive buildout of data centers. Researchers asked whether smaller models running on local devices could meaningfully lighten that load.HardwareFaster Reasoning at the Edge: Liquid AI’s small reasoning model mixes attention with convolutional layers for efficiencyReasoning models in the 1 to 2 billion-parameter range typically require more than 1 gigabyte of RAM to run. Liquid AI released one that runs in less than 900 megabytes, and does it with exceptional speed and efficiency.HardwarexAI Blasts Off: SpaceX acquires xAI, announces plans for data centers In spaceElon Musk’s SpaceX acquired xAI, opening the door to richer financing of the merged entity’s AI research, a tighter focus on space applications of AI, and — if Musk’s dreams are realized — solar-powered data centers in space.HardwareChina’s AI Chip Industry Takes Root: China banned GPUs and TPUs from U.S. manufacturers to promote domestic chipsThe United States government’s effort to deprive China of AI computing power backfired as China turned the tables and banned U.S.-designed chips.HardwareData-Center Buildout Goes Big: AI’s growth spurred infrastructure investment worldwideTop AI companies announced plans to build data centers that are projected to burn through trillions of dollars and gigawatts of electricity in the next few years.HardwareCoordinating Robot Teams: Google DeepMind’s RoboBallet project blends GNNs with RL to drive 8-armed robotsIn factories, where teams of robotic arms work in tight spaces, their motions are programmed by hand to keep them from interfering with one another. Researchers automated this programming using graph neural networks trained via reinforcement learning.HardwareOpenAI Reorganizes For Profit: ChatGPT’s maker completed restructuring, freeing it to go public, make deals with new partnersOpenAI completed its transition from nonprofit to for-profit in a feat of legal engineering that took an army of lawyers, investment bankers, and two state attorneys general 18 months to negotiate.Load MoreSubscribe to The BatchStay updated with weekly AI News and Insights delivered to your inbox