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NVIDIA’s Inference Inflection: What Jensen Huang Announced at GTC 2026

NVIDIA’s Inference Inflection: What Jensen Huang Announced at GTC 2026

I remember pulling an all-nighter back in the late 90s trying to get an old web server to handle more concurrent users than it was ever designed for. The hardware could train the model—figuratively speaking—but keeping it responsive under real load was the part that kept biting us.

Samsung SDI Pouch-Type All-Solid-State Battery Powers the Next Generation of Humanoid Robots

Samsung SDI Pouch-Type All-Solid-State Battery Powers the Next Generation of Humanoid Robots

I just fired up the old Commodore 64 emulator in the basement—watching those pixelated sprites dodge and weave across the screen—while reading about Samsung SDI's latest battery prototype, and it hit me: this is the real-life power-up that could finally let humanoid robots escape the "

Samsung SDI Unveils Pouch-Type Solid-State Battery for Humanoid Robots

Samsung SDI Unveils Pouch-Type Solid-State Battery for Humanoid Robots

Samsung SDI has introduced a pouch-type all-solid-state battery sample designed specifically for physical AI applications, including humanoid robots. The prototype was unveiled at InterBattery 2026 in Seoul earlier this month, under the exhibition theme "AI Thinks, Battery Enables." Unlike conventional lithium-ion batteries that rely on liquid electrolytes, solid-state

Yann LeCun’s AMI Labs Raises $1.03B to Pursue World Models for Real-World AI

Yann LeCun’s AMI Labs Raises $1.03B to Pursue World Models for Real-World AI

Yann LeCun, the Turing Award-winning AI pioneer, has launched Advanced Machine Intelligence (AMI) Labs with more than $1 billion in seed funding. The Paris-based startup announced a $1.03 billion raise at a $3.5 billion pre-money valuation, marking one of the largest early-stage rounds on record in Europe. A

Solid-State Batteries Poised to Power the Next Generation of EVs and Robots

Solid-State Batteries Poised to Power the Next Generation of EVs and Robots

Samsung SDI pulled back the curtain at InterBattery 2026 on a pouch-type all-solid-state battery sample developed specifically for physical AI applications like humanoid robots. The unveiling, part of a broader showcase themed "AI Thinks, Battery Enables," signals accelerating momentum in solid-state technology that could reshape not only electric