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…

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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…

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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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