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.
News Desk
2026
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…
@1x_tech
2026
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.
Tim De Chant
2026
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…
Bioengineer
2026
04 Jun 2026
Accelerate Physical AI Development from Prototype to Production with Amazon Kiro
AWS Physical AI Blog Introduction Physical AI development today faces a critical bottleneck. Engineering teams spend disproportionate hours on infrastructure setup, environment configuration, and dependency management—time that could be spent building intelligent robots. The iterative cycle of environment setup, data collection, policy training, and simulation validation consumes weeks of…
News Desk
2026
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
@therobotreport
2026
04 Jun 2026
Doja Cat Roasts ‘Barrel-Chested Ewok’ Elon Musk While Demanding Changes to X
Doja Cat recently took a shot at Elon Musk, demanding that the tech mogul make changes to the social media platform, X (formerly Twitter). He bought the platform in October 2022 for $44 billion. Previously, the singer had also asked for Musk’s help after she accidentally changed her name on the platform.
Ishita Verma
2026
04 Jun 2026
Fighting AI with AI: The time to act is now
The new AI-powered threat environment has already changed in ways that security teams cannot address by working harder or adding head count. According to the Unit 42 Global Incident Response Report 2026 , which draws on more than 750 major incidents, attackers can move from initial access to data exfiltration in as little as 72 minutes, four times as fast as in the prior year. What’s more,…
News Desk
2026
04 Jun 2026
SpaceX and Anthropic are about to go public—and your 401(k) may be forced to buy in
Two of the most valuable companies in history are about to go public, and because of their sheer size, they may fundamentally alter what sits inside millions of Americans’ retirement accounts.
Catherina Gioino
2026