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AI & Robotics

Compute, capex, and the machines coming for the machines.

Goldman Quintuples Humanoid Forecast; Oracle Spends $28.5B on AI

Goldman now sees 6.5 million humanoid robots by 2035, XPeng's Turing chip jumps from cars to bipeds, and Oracle's AI capex bill just hit restructuring territory.

XPeng IRON Walks Off the Line; China EV Pivots to Humanoid Hardware

The first IRON robot just shipped itself—and XPeng says margins could beat selling cars.

Nscale Drops $3.5B on Figure; Humanoid Chips Get Complicated

A data-center builder just made the biggest robotics bet of the year, Xpeng raised $900M, and engineers admit humanoid compute is messier than autonomous cars.

One Robot Per Hour: Figure's BotQ Line Is Actually Ramping

A 24x throughput increase in under 120 days, paid BMW deployments, and the first credible answer to the only question that matters: can you build them fast enough?

Meta Compute Just Rewrote the AI Capex Math

The biggest buyers of GPUs are becoming sellers of GPU time. That sound you hear is a thousand data center models being rebuilt from scratch.

Optimus Gen 3: Late Again, Still the Main Character

Fremont production slips to late July or August. The robot is not shipping on time. The narrative ships daily.

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The Trillion-Dollar Circle: Everyone Is Buying Everything From Everyone

OpenAI commits to Oracle. Oracle buys Nvidia. Nvidia invests in OpenAI. At some point this is either the greatest infrastructure buildout in history or a very expensive group hug.

Atlas Punches In at Hyundai

The backflip robot got a job. The era of humanoids as YouTube content is ending. The era of humanoids as line workers is starting, slowly, in Georgia.