Ati Robotics Builds China-Free Robots Amid US Import Ban
US regulators banned Chinese-made robots last week, prompting startups like Ati Robotics to pivot to India for production, reducing reliance on Chinese parts.
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The chips and systems powering modern AI — GPUs, accelerators, data-center infrastructure, and the hardware roadmaps from Nvidia, AMD, and custom silicon makers driving training and inference.
US regulators banned Chinese-made robots last week, prompting startups like Ati Robotics to pivot to India for production, reducing reliance on Chinese parts.
Runware introduced its modular Sonic Inference Pod, offering faster inference at lower cost than serverless platforms and GPU clouds, with 10 pods deployed globally.
Ukraine's military is deploying 50,000 AI-equipped Shrike drones to autonomously target moving enemy assets, including armored vehicles and helicopters.
LinkedIn is keeping its compute and storage flat this fiscal year, using existing GPUs twice as efficiently to avoid costly expansions.
Taiwan's prosecutors detained an Nvidia employee in a widening probe into illegal exports of Super Micro AI servers to China, according to Bloomberg and Reuters.
PJM Interconnection plans to cut power to data centers during shortages starting in 2027, citing rising demand and failed capacity auctions.
Samsung semiconductor workers are defecting to SK Hynix, which is offering $476,000 bonuses, sparking a talent war in the HBM chip industry.
AMD's MI450 GPU achieves 85% peak HBM bandwidth with optimized Gluon kernel for attention decode workloads in large language model inference.
TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 will host the Smart Systems Stage from October 13-15, featuring leaders from Commonwealth Fusion Systems, Helion, and others discussing energy and AI infrastructure challenges.
A power line failure in Washington, DC, caused over 3 gigawatts of data centers to stop drawing power, stressing the PJM grid and causing regional flickers.
OpenAI introduced Micro, a customizable keypad for ChatGPT, priced at $230, with mixed reactions from users.
AT&T and Microsoft announced a partnership to scale trillion-token workloads using Microsoft Foundry and AMD technology, marking a new milestone in large-scale AI model training.