XPeng's Robot Arm Just Raised $900 Million
XPeng's robotics unit raised $900M at a $6.3B valuation before selling a single IRON humanoid robot. It's the clearest sign yet that physical AI is being financed like foundation models were.
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Nvidia's $6 Billion Bet on Not Buying Poolside
Nvidia is licensing Poolside's AI model-building software and hiring its 109 engineers for $6 billion — without buying the company. Here's why the structure matters more than the price.
7 Best Vector Databases in 2026: Pinecone, Qdrant, Weaviate, Milvus, Chroma, Turbopuffer and pgvector Compared
Retrieval-augmented generation lives or dies on the database underneath it — and the seven products below split into three very different bets: fully managed convenience, open-source control, and storage-layer economics.
Every serious RAG pipeline, recommendation engine, or semantic search feature needs somewhere to store embeddings and query them
7 Best AI Gateways in 2026: Kong, LiteLLM, TrueFoundry, Portkey, Cloudflare, Helicone and OpenRouter Compared
We compared Kong, LiteLLM, TrueFoundry, Portkey, Cloudflare AI Gateway, Helicone, and OpenRouter on deployment model, pricing, and licensing — with real pros and cons for each.
The Leading Edge Belongs to AI Now
How TSMC's A16 node ended fifteen years of smartphones going first, and what that reordering costs everyone else.
LG Rents Nvidia's Robot Brain
How a humanoid partnership reveals that the scarce asset in physical AI is neither the model nor the machine, but the factory floor.
OpenAI Taps the Brakes on Astra
How a sentence OpenAI could not disprove stopped a frontier model, and why cyber was the threshold that broke first.
Anthropic Watermarks the Word
How an EU transparency rule turned the randomness inside Claude into a signature, and exported the standard worldwide.
Google Gives Away the Handshake
How moving the A2A protocol to the Agentic AI Foundation trades control for the one thing enterprise buyers actually demand.
Cloudflare's Browser for Machines
How Kitesurf, an agent-first browser built in Rust, resets the unit economics of letting AI read the web.