AI & Technology News The AI & Technology category at The Robotics Media covers artificial intelligence research, machine learning breakthroughs, and the software and hardware powering modern robotics. Readers find reporting on foundation models, computer vision, autonomous systems, chips and sensors, plus industry news from AI labs, startups, and major technology companies. Coverage includes product launches, funding rounds, research papers, and policy developments shaping AI and robotics.
Samsung Kicks Off Early Prep For Second Taylor Foundry Fab In Texas — Aug 27, 2026 — Samsung Electronics has asked equipment suppliers to complete SEMI safety certification for a second foundry fab in Taylor, Texas months before ground...SpaceXAI Picks NVIDIA Vera CPUs For Grok, Sends Vera Rubin NVL72 To Orbit — Aug 27, 2026 — SpaceXAI will deploy standalone NVIDIA Vera CPUs to power Grok's next-generation agentic workloads and plans to launch a Vera Rubin NVL72 rack aboard...Intel Unveils 256-Core Diamond Rapids Xeon at Hot Chips 2026 — Aug 26, 2026 — At Hot Chips 2026, Intel detailed its 2027 Diamond Rapids Xeon with 256 P-cores and 1.28 GB cache, alongside the Crescent Island inference GPU and Wil...Japan Switches On 'Shunkai', Its First Full-Stack Neutral-Atom Quantum Computer — Aug 26, 2026 — The Institute for Molecular Science, with Hitachi and Infleqtion, has switched on Japan's first full-stack neutral-atom quantum computer under the Moo...Xiaomi Debuts 3nm Xring O3 With LPDDR6, Plus AI and Auto-Driving Chips — Aug 25, 2026 — Xiaomi's second-generation flagship SoC arrives on TSMC's 3nm N3P with 24 billion transistors, LPDDR6 support and 200 TOPS of AI, alongside a stacked...Cloudflare Gives AI Agents A Wallet And A Handle, Extending x402 To 160M Transactions — Aug 24, 2026 — Cloudflare launched Wallets and cloudflare.pay handles, giving AI agents a stablecoin balance and human-readable identity to autonomously pay for APIs...TSMC's 1.6nm A16 Node Slated For Q4 2026 Mass Production, Roadmap Holds — Aug 24, 2026 — TSMC confirmed its 1.6nm-class A16 process is on track for high-volume manufacturing in the fourth quarter of 2026, targeting datacenter AI accelerato...Generalist AI Unveils GEN-1.5, A Robot Foundation Model That Learns From One Demo — Aug 23, 2026 — Generalist AI released GEN-1.5, an embodied foundation model that can learn new physical tasks from 3 to 12 seconds of demonstration data in-context,...Google Gives Publishers a 'Preferred Sources' Button as AI Reshapes Search — Aug 23, 2026 — Google is rolling out an embeddable Preferred Sources button that lets publishers give readers a one-tap way to boost the visibility of their reportin...OpenAI Brings ChatGPT Into Apple Messages on macOS — Aug 23, 2026 — OpenAI is rolling out a Messages integration for ChatGPT on macOS that reads, searches, summarizes, drafts and sends iMessage conversations after user...Apple Music Will Label Songs Materially Generated Using AI — Aug 23, 2026 — Apple Music told partners it will surface visible labels on tracks that content providers identify as materially generated using AI, extending its AI...Brazil Unveils $444M AI Push With Huawei, iFlytek and US Tech Partners — Aug 23, 2026 — Brazil announced roughly $444 million in artificial intelligence investments spanning US and Chinese partners, including a $250 million supercomputing...Claude Designs Protein Binders For 14 Of 15 Targets In Wet-Lab Test — Aug 23, 2026 — Anthropic's Claude Mythos Preview and Opus 4.8 autonomously ran a de novo protein binder campaign against 15 targets and produced confirmed binders fo...Rigetti Spins Up Systems Delivery Org, Names New COO and CTO — Aug 23, 2026 — Rigetti Computing carves off a dedicated Systems Delivery organization, promotes David Rivas to Chief Operating Officer and appoints Andrew Bestwick a...Quantum X Labs' AI Decoder Tops PyMatching On Google's Surface-Code Data — Aug 23, 2026 — QXL says its AI-driven quantum error correction decoder, trained only on synthetic samples, beat Google's correlated-matching and PyMatching benchmark...Cloudflare Launches Kitesurf, A Rust Browser Built For AI Agents On Workers — Aug 22, 2026 — Cloudflare has released Kitesurf, an agent-first, Chromium-free browser written in Rust that runs on V8 isolates on the company's Workers edge platfor...Alibaba Unveils Qwen-UI-Agent, GUI Model Beats GPT-5.6 And Claude 4.8 — Aug 22, 2026 — Alibaba's Qwen-UI-Agent, a GUI-focused foundation model, tops MobileWorld, OSWorld-Verified and WebArena while outscoring GPT-5.6 Sol and Claude Opus...Google's Gemma Open Models Pass One Billion Downloads — Aug 21, 2026 — Google DeepMind says its Gemma family of open-weights AI models has crossed one billion downloads and 100,000-plus community variants, with deployment...Nvidia's H200 AI Chips Trickle Into China, ByteDance And Tencent Get 10K Each — Aug 21, 2026 — The FT says ByteDance and Tencent have each received about 10,000 Nvidia H200 processors as Beijing eases curbs, but requires much of the hardware sta...OpenAI Brings ChatGPT Ads To 31 European Markets Next Week — Aug 20, 2026 — OpenAI will expand ChatGPT Ads to 31 European markets starting the week of August 24, its largest ads rollout to date and a direct push into ad revenu...