04 Jun 2026
How Hyundai, LG stole the spotlight from Samsung for Huang's Korea visit
LG Electronics' CLOiD robot was introduced at Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang's speech at GTC Taipei 2026 in Taiwan on June 1.
04 Jun 2026
1X Launches World Model Lab to Scale Humanoid Intelligence
Today, we're excited to announce that 1X has officially established the 1X World Model Lab, our new frontier research organization dedicated to accelerating the path to fully autonomous humanoids through large-scale embodied world model pretraining. Also, we’re proud to welcome Sam Sinha– previously a founding research scientist at Luma AI and a leader in scaling multimodal generative video…
04 Jun 2026
Helion, the Sam Altman-backed fusion startup, raises $465M to build a power plant for Microsoft
Helion, the fusion startup backed by Sam Altman, announced on Thursday that it had raised $465 million in a new funding round that values the company at $15.5 billion.
04 Jun 2026
Boston University Partners with National Science Foundation Institute to Advance Frontiers in Physics and AI
In a groundbreaking advancement at the intersection of artificial intelligence and fundamental physics, Boston University has become a pivotal member of the National Science Foundation (NSF)–sponsored Institute for Artificial Intelligence and Fundamental Interactions (IAIFI). This interdisciplinary consortium, funded by a substantial five-year federal grant, is leveraging the unprecedented…
04 Jun 2026
Generalist raises $400M to scale its general-purpose AI models
From left to right, Generalist’s co-founders: CEO Pete Florence, Chief Scientist Andy Zeng, and CTO Andrew Barry. | Source: Generalist
04 Jun 2026
Nvidia, Fei Fei Li back Generalist’s $400m round to scale AI robotics
From left: Pete Florence, Andy Zheng and Andrew Barry. Image: Generalist Generalist hopes to make ‘general intelligence’ robotics a reality. US AI robotics company Generalist has raised $400m at a reported $2bn valuation to accelerate its plans towards achieving “physical” artificial general intelligence (AGI).
04 Jun 2026
Generalist AI Raises $400M in New Funding to Develop Physical AGI
Generalist AI has raised $400 million in new funding, bringing its total funding to more than $500 million, to accelerate development of what it calls physical artificial general intelligence, or AGI.
04 Jun 2026
Is Silicon Valley ready to put robots in people’s homes? Hello Robot is.
Martinez, California, is about as far as you can get from Silicon Valley and still be in the San Francisco Bay Area. Perched on the northeast edge of the bay, the small city is home to Hello Robot, a startup that itself is about as far as one can get from the maximalist promises of its robotics rivals 45 miles south.
04 Jun 2026
Amazon and Google are sitting on billions in Anthropic stock. The IPO will finally reveal how much.
Anthropic, most recently valued at $965 billion, has confidentially filed for an IPO—gearing up for what could be one of the largest public offerings in history.
