Nvidia-backed startup Generalist raises $400M at a $2B valuation in the physical AI race, even as experts and industry leaders warn that allowing a handful of companies to monopolize generalized robotics technology poses serious risks to humanity, prompting calls for open-source collaboration and government accountability.
Apollo Global Management and Blackstone seal a landmark $35 billion financing deal to expand Anthropic's AI infrastructure, funding Google's custom AI chips in one of the largest financing arrangements in the artificial intelligence race.
Apple strikes a secret deal with Google to power a rebuilt Siri using Gemini AI after a crisis meeting reveals Apple Intelligence has badly fallen behind rivals, with a chatbot-style Siri overhaul set to debut at WWDC 2026 as Tim Cook's final major bet before handing the CEO role to …
Microsoft breaks free from OpenAI dependency, launching seven in-house 'MAI' AI models and unveiling a bold five-year plan to become a self-sufficient frontier AI lab capable of achieving superintelligence using its own researchers, custom silicon, and enterprise data pipelines.
Generalist AI secures $400 million in new funding, pushing total capital raised past $500 million, as its robots achieve 99% reliability and speeds three times faster than previous benchmarks, signaling a major leap toward commercially viable physical AI.
Nvidia-backed robotics startup Generalist AI raises $400 million in a new funding round led by Radical Ventures, catapulting the company to a $2 billion valuation as it pushes to build advanced AI models that enable robots to tackle increasingly complex real-world tasks.
Microsoft launches the Surface Laptop Ultra, a sleek sub-4.5-pound powerhouse featuring a 15-inch mini-LED touchscreen, an NVIDIA chip delivering up to one petaflop of AI compute, and up to 128GB of unified memory, designed for creators and professionals demanding cutting-edge on-device AI performance.
NVIDIA launches Nemotron 3 Ultra, a massive 550B-parameter AI model delivering frontier reasoning capabilities at 30% lower cost and 5x higher throughput than comparable open models, powered by cutting-edge hybrid architecture and a novel multi-teacher training method, with fully open weights released for enterprise adoption.
Canada launches 'AI for All,' an ambitious national strategy targeting $200 billion in economic growth and 250,000 new jobs by 2034, backed by new AI safety legislation, a national literacy initiative, sovereign supercomputing infrastructure, and 12 international partnerships.
PRIME-RL launches as a fully open-source reinforcement learning framework capable of scaling to 1000+ GPUs and trillion-parameter models, supporting major AI model families with asynchronous training, multimodal capabilities, and flexible multi-node deployment under the Apache 2.0 license.