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This $30M startup built a dog crate-sized robot factory that learns by watching humans

MicroFactory has more than 100 preorders for its general purpose tabletop robotic factory which it hopes to start shipping in two months.

China is investigating Nvidia’s 2020 acquisition of Mellanox Technologies as trade tensions between the U.S. and China heat up.

The robotics startup market has matured over the last decade and the cost to produce robots has gone down significantly.

OpenAI and Oracle reportedly signed a deal that includes OpenAI buying $300 billion of compute over a five-year span.

Intel also announced the creation of a central engineering group that will build custom chips for outside customers.

Customer service AI agent startup Sierra claims to have hundreds of customers, including SoFi, Ramp, and Brex, among others.

Lambda, which allows companies to rent GPUs, is reportedly following its rival CoreWeave to the public market.

The U.S. government’s recent stake in Intel comes after a long period of floundering at the company’s foundry business.

Runway is building up a robotics-focused team and fine-tuning its existing models for robotics and self-driving car customers.

The deal allows the U.S. to take more equity in Intel if the company doesn’t retain at least 51% ownership in its foundry business.