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Partnerships pairing Nvidia's robotics platform with Korean industrial component supply chains to produce bipedal and service robots.
Samsung and SK Hynix are committing about $518 billion to new Gwangju memory fabs, the largest line in South Korea's roughly $900 billion decade plan. Company balance sheets supply much of that capital, so the two chipmakers will set how fast the new supply actually arrives.
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The neural value alignment work with Microsoft Research Asia decodes brain waves to tell an agent whether its goal or its method was wrong. The speed claim comes from simulations.
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Actuate went from 250 attendees in 2024 to 1,500 this year and could have sold 2,000. Almost none of them brought a working robot, which tells you where the bottleneck sits.
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Veeda AI raised $90 million three months after being founded, co-led by Khosla Ventures and Radical Ventures. The pitch: simulated reality is the infrastructure layer robotics is missing.
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Average first-half pay at SK hynix rose 23% to 144 million won across 36,042 people. Every hardware employer in Korea now recruits against a number it did not choose.
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