This Week’s News

  1. Reno, Nevada based startup Positron has raised 230 million USD in funding to take on NVidia in the GPU market. [Link]

  2. Intel will also challenge NVidia in the GPU market with its hire of a GPU architect. [Link]

  3. Open AI and Snowflake, a data and AI platform company, have entered into a 200 million USD agreement to partner together to integrate GPT-5 into Snowflakes platform. [Link]

  4. Carbon Robotics, a major supplier of agricultural robotics has announced its first large plant model (LPM) to categorize and recognize different species of plants. [Link]

  5. A coalition of nonprofit groups has drafted a letter to congress urging a federal ban on Grok from X/AI over non consensual sexualized images posted on the site. [Link]

  6. India has announced a no-tax deal through 2047 to lure AI startups to base in its country. [Link]

  7. Openclaw, the open source AI agent is taking the world by storm. [Link]

  8. SpaceX has acquired xAI in an all‑stock deal that values the combined company at roughly 1.25 trillion dollars, the highest valuation ever attached to a merger. [Link]

  9. Moltbook, a site where AI agents can congregate and open discussions with each other draws millions of spectators. [Link]

  10. Coffee chain Starbucks is integrating robots into its drive throughs. [Link]

  11. British company The School of Coding and AI will open a branch in Dubai and begin training students in May. [Link]

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