AGP Executive Report
Last update: 6 hours agoAI and Robotics: China’s JD.com is making embodied AI a strategic priority, aiming to gather 10 million hours of real-world video and one million hours of robot-operation data within two years. Canadian AI company Cohere is seeking up to $715.5 million in a Series E round to build a frontier AI business outside the U.S. and China. Research Breakthroughs: Samsung honored 10 researchers in basic science, materials and ICT, selected from work across 644 projects backed by its technology program. Clean Energy: African nations are seeking Indian investment, technology and training to expand solar power, with Zimbabwe targeting a 49% share of non-fossil energy by 2030. Advanced Computing: Weebit Nano launched a research program for in-memory computing, a technology designed to process data more efficiently. Tech Policy: U.S. tech shares rallied after the midterms, even as growing opposition to data centers threatens to complicate the AI infrastructure buildout.
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