Microsoft’s Majorana 2 quantum chiparrived this week, with numbers that are genuinely difficult to contextualise: qubits 1,000 times more reliable than those of the first generation models, a mean qubit lifetime of 20 seconds against an industry norm measured in microseconds, and a revised roadmap targeting a commercially scalable quantum computer by 2029. Behind those…

Continue Reading

Walmart has reportedly begun limiting employees’ use of an internal AI assistant called Code Puppy after demands placed on the LLM backing the tool were higher than expected. Employees of Walmart were encouraged to use Code Puppy without any stricture or stipulations as to the limits of use, but Walmart is now assigning employees a…

Continue Reading

Insider Brief Ouster and FieldAI have partnered to combine FieldAI’s robotics foundation models with Ouster’s Rev8 lidar technology to improve how autonomous robots perceive and navigate complex industrial environments. The companies said the collaboration is focused on enabling robots to operate in unstructured settings without pre-mapped routes, supporting infrastructure or significant modifications to the worksite.…

Continue Reading

Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier has filed the first state-led lawsuit against OpenAI and CEO Sam Altman, alleging the company ignored internal and external safety warnings while prioritising competitive dominance over user protection. The 83-page complaint links ChatGPT to a mass shooting at Florida State University, suicides, and other violent incidents, claiming OpenAI misrepresented the safety of…

Continue Reading

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang opened Computex in Taipei by unveiling the RTX Spark, a one-petaflop “superchip” designed to run AI agents locally and securely on Windows PCs. ASUS, Dell, HP, Lenovo, Microsoft Surface, and MSI will ship RTX Spark-powered machines this autumn, with Acer and Gigabyte to follow. The chip includes secure sandboxes co-developed with…

Continue Reading

Alphabet has announced plans to raise $80 billion through a stock sale to fund AI infrastructure expansion, including a $10 billion tranche sold directly to Berkshire Hathaway. The Google parent said AI demand from enterprises and consumers is currently exceeding available supply, making the capital raise necessary to scale foundational compute capacity. CEO Sundar Pichai…

Continue Reading

Insider Brief Nvidia and Foxconn are expanding healthcare AI deployments in Taiwan through the government-backed Healthy Taiwan initiative, which includes $1.5 billion in investment to build an AI-enabled healthcare system spanning hospitals, universities and technology companies. Foxconn introduced new AI-powered clinical tools, including its CoDoctor platform with specialized agents for cardiac screening, coronary artery analysis…

Continue Reading

Insider Brief Physical AI startup RLWRLD will showcase its Robotics Foundation Model, RLDX-1, at Nvidia GTC Taipei 2026, highlighting a humanoid robot AI system focused on dexterous manipulation and built on Nvidia’s robotics and AI software stack. RLWRLD said RLDX-1 achieved leading results across eight public robotics benchmarks, including a score of 70.6 on RoboCasa…

Continue Reading

XCENA, a chip startup with offices in South Korea and the US, has raised $135 million in a Series B at a $570 million valuation, led by Seoul-based firms Atinum and IMM Investment, to commercialise a chip that processes AI data directly within memory rather than routing it through expensive CPUs and GPUs. Founded in…

Continue Reading

Insider Brief Signaloid has completed the tapeout of its C0-ASIC AI accelerator, a chip designed for energy-efficient robotics and physical AI workloads, with engineering samples expected to ship to its first customer in the third quarter of 2026. The company said the chip uses its distribution-extended computing architecture to reduce the energy required for AI…

Continue Reading