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Pony.ai unveils autonomous electric truck for logistics fleets

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Pony.ai has unveiled an autonomous electric truck for logistics fleets, developed with GAC Commercial Vehicle for freight supply chains. Unveiled at IAA Transportation 2026, this Level 4 (L4) heavy rig marks the fourth-generation (Gen-4) iteration of Pony.ai’s Robotruck platform. It builds on GAC Commercial Vehicle’s T9 battery-electric truck architecture, with mass production set to start […]

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Palantir Foundry and cuOpt drive NVIDIA supply chain allocation

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NVIDIA is using Palantir Foundry and cuOpt to automate its hardware supply chain allocation decisions across global manufacturing sites. The company measures operational delivery from wafer-out to first token. This window splits into time-to-rack (the transit from fab output to an assembled data centre system) and time-to-token (which covers power, cooling, networking, and day-one software

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JD.com expands physical AI in logistics with 3 million robots

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JD.com is expanding AI and robotics across its logistics network under a new Physical AI Acceleration Plan, while reiterating a five-year target to procure 3 million robots, 1 million autonomous vehicles, and 100,000 delivery drones. The company launched the plan at JDDiscovery 2026 in Beijing. JD Logistics also unveiled its industrial Wolf Robot series, designed

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Samsung taps Mistral AI models for semiconductor manufacturing

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Samsung has partnered with Mistral AI to deploy on-premises models across its semiconductor manufacturing and engineering operations. The agreement was announced during the bilateral state summit held in Paris between South Korea and France. Samsung will integrate Mistral’s software suite – including its flagship Mistral Large model – into internal semiconductor facilities to build customised

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The robotics capability framework for physical AI by Arm.

Arm launches Total Design for Physical AI and robotics framework

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Arm has launched Arm Total Design for Physical AI alongside a new robotics framework to establish common standards across automated systems. Physical industries – spanning mining, agriculture, manufacturing, and global transport – account for trillions of dollars in economic activity and an estimated $200 billion annual compute opportunity by the 2030s. To address engineering fragmentation

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NVIDIA to acquire Hugging Face for $12.93B

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NVIDIA has agreed to acquire Hugging Face for $12.93 billion to scale the open-source model repository’s platform and infrastructure. The transaction targets platform growth and infrastructure investment, aiming to expand AI access for enterprise developers, software engineers, and research institutions globally. Built over the past decade by Clem Delangue, Julien Chaumond, Thomas Wolf, and their

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A quarter of Nvidia’s business next year comes from labs it is financing

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Nvidia has put nearly US$50 billion into the AI labs that buy its chips, and has lined up commitments for more than $500 billion Colette Kress, the company’s chief financial officer, told analysts on August 26 that demand from the labs Nvidia backs with its own balance sheet will contribute toward roughly a quarter of its business

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NVIDIA Jetson Orin Nano 2 brings physical AI to drones and robots

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NVIDIA has unveiled the Jetson Orin Nano 2, an edge robotics computer aimed at bringing physical AI to drones, robots, and vision systems. The company is positioning the new board as an entry-level option for developers who want generative AI models running directly on a machine instead of inside a data centre. NVIDIA’s argument for

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XPENG IRON humanoid robot draws record physical AI funding

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XPENG’s physical AI unit has secured over $900 million at a $6.3 billion valuation to scale its IRON humanoid robot platform. The Chinese electric vehicle maker announced the funding round for its robotics business through a set of share purchase agreements with multiple investors. XPENG says the deal represents the largest single-round private capital raise

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Stripe agrees to buy OpenRouter as AI model routing expands

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Stripe has agreed to acquire OpenRouter, an AI model-routing platform that gives developers access to hundreds of models through a single interface. The deal adds model selection and routing to Stripe’s existing work around AI usage and token-based billing. OpenRouter supports more than 400 models from over 80 providers, according to Stripe. Rather than requiring

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