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…

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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…

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Visa has made an undisclosed investment in AI coding platform Replit, as the two companies explore integrating Visa’s payment products directly into Replit’s development environment — enabling both human developers and the AI agents they build to accept and process payments without leaving the platform. The partnership centres on Visa Intelligent Commerce and Visa’s Trusted Agent Protocol,…

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Read Online | Sign Up | Advertise Good morning, {{ first_name | AI enthusiasts }}. Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang had a simple but bold statement at COMPUTEX in Taiwan to open his keynote: “Agentic AI has arrived.” He then pointed his whole ecosystem at backing that claim up. The chipmaker’s latest reveals stretched from the…

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Since its announcement in April this year, the proposed changes to billing methods on GitHub Copilot were a source of much speculation: how much more or less would a pay-a-you-use AI cost an organisation or individual compared to a flat-rate, monthly subscription? Just a day into the changeover to token-based billing for the LLM-based service,…

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Anthropic’s IPO filing marks the maturation of generative AI from a research-heavy venture phase into a stabilised enterprise utility. Model developers operating in private markets have prioritised rapid iteration and maximum compute performance over predictable billing cycles. Taking a foundational provider public aligns those engineering goals with standard corporate procurement, introducing structured release schedules and…

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Insider Brief Japanese humanoid robotics startup Atom has raised 3 billion yen (nearly $19 million) in seed funding as it develops what it describes as a “new species” of AI-powered humanoid robots designed for manufacturing, logistics and transportation environments. The round was co-led by ANRI, Beyond Next Ventures and JAFCO Group, with participation from ALPHA,…

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Insider Brief Unitree unveiled the H2 Plus, a full-size humanoid robot and reference development platform built on Nvidia’s Isaac GR00T ecosystem, combining locomotion, manipulation, sensing and onboard AI computing in a system expected to launch in late 2026. The robot stands nearly 6 feet tall, weighs about 150 pounds, features 75 degrees of freedom, tactile…

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Welcome to AI Insider’s The Week Ahead in AI. See the key developments and events we’re watching May 31- June 6. Weekend AI News Briefs US Takes Step to Halt Nvidia AI Chip Shipments to Chinese Firms Outside China The U.S. Commerce Department issued new guidance clarifying that advanced AI chips require export licenses when sold…

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Insider Brief Pudu Robotics is partnering with Shenzhen Culture & Tourism Industry Development Co. to develop a robot-serviced hotel in Shenzhen, China, where robots will handle functions including guest reception, room delivery, housekeeping, food service and guest assistance. The project will be deployed in phases through 2030, with initial operations expected by the end of…

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