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India has built the digital foundation to emerge as a significant player in the artificial intelligence era, but sustaining that momentum will require greater investment in innovation, semiconductor capabilities, and computing infrastructure, according to Prabhu Ram, vice president, Industry Research Group, CyberMedia Research (CMR). Delivering the opening keynote at CyberMedia
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Executive Readout The next AI conference cycle is concentrated in three arenas. First, research conferences are becoming governance infrastructure. CVPR opens in Denver on June 3 with explicit compute-reporting and research-integrity processes, while ICML Seoul is already signaling capacity pressure through registration, workshops, tutorials, and invited-talk announcements. These are no
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South Korea is moving to expand its AI infrastructure base through a series of projects covering data centres, semiconductors, and robotics. SK Telecom plans to build up to 15GW of AI data centre capacity. The plan follows a set of South Korean “mega projects” covering semiconductors, physical AI, and AI
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CyberMedia Leadership & Awards Night 2026 in New Delhi became more than an evening of recognition. It turned into a larger reflection on where India’s technology journey is headed next. Held on July 3, the event brought together technology leaders, policymakers, industry veterans and innovators. It also brought the
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It’s no longer a question of if – only when. The promise of humanoid robotics is finally crystallizing into a commercial reality. This new era will create a sector with the heft to rival megaliths like automotive and computing. But we’re not there yet, and though large and well-known
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The humanoid robotics market is awash in money right now. Last week, AI2 Robotics, a Shenzhen-based startup that makes wheeled humanoid robots, raised nearly $735 million at a nearly $3 billion valuation. Earlier this year, Apptronik, an Austin-based maker of humanoid robots for manufacturing and logistics, closed a $935 million
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TL;DR A federal judge ordered the Pentagon to give Alibaba temporary relief from the law that caused all its Washington lobbyists to drop it, while the court weighs the measure’s constitutionality. The case stems from Alibaba’s June addition to the Pentagon’s 1260H Chinese military companies list,
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* Japan plans to deploy 10 million additional robots before 2040 arrives * Nursing homes and food factories sit at the centre of expansion * Noetra will supply the AI foundation powering future Japanese robots nationwide Japan has unveiled a revised national robotics strategy which aims to introduce around 10 million robots in
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A new dental robot is in development at the University of Basel in Switzerland to help with tooth drilling. It's called the MIR, or Miniature Intraoral Robot, and its bite-sized design allows it to fit inside a patient's mouth. The aim is to speed up the
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With AI igniting an investor frenzy, more startups are achieving unicorn status every month. Using data from Crunchbase and PitchBook, TechCrunch tracked down the VC-backed startups that became unicorns in 2026. While most are AI-related, a surprising number are focused on other industries like healthcare and even a few crypto
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Executive Summary Today’s highest-confidence strategic signal is the consolidation of a new frontier-model access regime. Anthropic says the U.S. export controls applied to Claude Fable 5 and Claude Mythos 5 were lifted on June 30, with Fable 5 restored globally from July 1 and Mythos 5 restored to
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Beneath the Earth's surface lies an extraordinary underground fungal network of almost unimaginable scale. An international team of researchers has, for the first time, produced a global map of this vast mycorrhizal network—the system of fungal filaments that forms mutually beneficial partnerships with plants across the planet.
