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I Gave My OpenClaw Agent a Physical Body

I Gave My OpenClaw Agent a Physical Body

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I recently gave my OpenClaw a real robot arm to play with. The results just about blew my own neural network. The AI agent was able to configure the arm, use it to see and slowly grab things, and even train another AI model to pick up and place specific objects. And they say AGI is still a few years away! (I’m joking, it probably is). The results have me convinced that we may be on the brink of a robotics breakthrough. Training and controlling robots used to require considerable skill. Today’s AI models can make it almost easy. “AI-powered coding is super exciting because it has the potential to bridge the gap between conventional engineering methods, which are reliable but don’t generalize, and contemporary vision-language-action models, which generalize but are not yet reliable,” says Ken Goldberg, a roboticist at UC Berkeley who is exploring the approach. I told OpenClaw to try moving its new arm and it came up with this little wave. I bought a prebuilt arm called a LeRobot 101. It’s part …

Futures Rise Ahead Of Critical Nvidia Earnings As Oil, Bond Yields Drop

Futures Rise Ahead Of Critical Nvidia Earnings As Oil, Bond Yields Drop

Published by Jenni Sidey

US equity futures are higher led by tech as the selloff in bonds eased and traders awaited earnings from Nvidia after the close. As of 7:30am ET, S&P futures are up 0.3% while Nasdaq futs rose 0.7% showing optimism heading into the release and overlooking weakness in tech during APAC trade. In premarket trading, NVDA is up 1.8% in premarket trading, as semis see a strong bid with Mag7 names almost all higher. Cyclicals ex-Energy are rallying led by Industrials with Defensives lagging and Staples down. European stocks have edged higher alongside a pullback in energy prices, which saw Brent briefly slip onto a $108/bbl handle. Today is all about NVDA but Fed Minutes this afternoon may provide color on the dissenters from the previous Fed Day. Bond yields in the US and Europe retreated from multiyear highs as traders pared back aggressive bets on interest-rate hikes this year. US yields are 1-3bp lower across the curve, the 10Y dropping to 4.64% from yesterday’s high of 4.69%, as the USD sees a mild bid. Brent fell 1.8% toward $109 a barrel with the …

President lands in Beijing with Tesla, Nvidia CEOs

President lands in Beijing with Tesla, Nvidia CEOs

Published by Sam Flores

U.S. President Donald Trump participates in an arrival ceremony at Beijing Capital International Airport during his visit to the country, in Beijing, China, May 13, 2026. Evan Vucci | Reuters U.S. President Donald Trump has landed in Beijing for a highly anticipated presidential summit with his Chinese counterpart, Xi Jinping. Trump is being accompanied on the trip by a group of executives from some of America’s most valuable companies, including Tesla CEO Elon Musk and Nvidia boss Jensen Huang. The president was greeted on the tarmac by a brass band and flag wavers, who performed as he descended the steps of Air Force One. On Thursday, Trump is scheduled to participate in a welcome ceremony and hold a bilateral meeting with Xi, before touring the historic Temple of Heaven and attending a state banquet. He will leave China on Friday, following tea and a working lunch with Xi. Read more about Trump in China The high-stakes talks between the two leaders are expected to cover tariffs, rare earths, artificial intelligence, the Iran war and Taiwan. Experts are anticipating that …

Jensen Huang joins Trump’s China trip after the U.S. president called the Nvidia CEO

Jensen Huang joins Trump’s China trip after the U.S. president called the Nvidia CEO

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Jensen Huang, CEO of Nvidia speaks with CNBC on May 5, 2026. CNBC BEIJING — Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang has joined U.S. President Donald Trump’s trip to China, after initial indications the executive had not been invited. After seeing the media coverage of Huang’s absence from the delegation, Trump called the Nvidia executive and asked him to join, a source familiar with the situation told CNBC. Huang flew to Alaska to board Air Force One, the source said. Trump is bringing more than a dozen U.S. executives to Beijing this week where he is scheduled to meet with Chinese President Xi Jinping Thursday and Friday. “Jensen is attending the summit at the invitation of President Trump to support America and the administration’s goals,” a spokesperson for the chip giant said in a statement. Nvidia referred to the same comment when asked about Huang joining mid-journey in Alaska, but did not provide a reason. The White House did not immediately respond to a request for comment. In a social media post, Trump confirmed Huang was on …

Foxconn Ransomware Attack Shows Nothing Is Safe Forever

Foxconn Ransomware Attack Shows Nothing Is Safe Forever

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A ransomware group is attempting to extort the electronics manufacturing giant Foxconn, claiming that it stole 8 TB of data from the company, including schematics and project details from customers including Dell, Google, Apple, and Nvidia. Foxconn did not immediately respond to WIRED’s request for comment about the validity of the claims, but the company did acknowledge that some of its North American factories “suffered a cyberattack” in recent days, and that “affected factories are currently resuming normal production” after outages. Foxconn is the type of target that is particularly appealing to ransomware and data extortion actors, because it is a massive company with divisions and subsidiaries around the world that not only hold its own intellectual property, but that of its customers. The company is a key manufacturing contractor for electronic components or entire devices, including Apple’s iPhones. “Ransomware groups are increasingly targeting victims that can impact the supply chain, whether it is physical or software,” says Allan Liska, a threat intelligence analyst at security firm Recorded Future. “So it’s unsurprising that a company …

CUDA Proves Nvidia Is a Software Company

CUDA Proves Nvidia Is a Software Company

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Forgive me for starting with a cliché, a piece of finance jargon that has recently slipped into the tech lexicon, but I’m afraid I must talk about “moats.” Popularized decades ago by Warren Buffett to refer to a company’s competitive advantage, the word found its way into Silicon Valley pitch decks when a memo purportedly leaked from Google, titled “We Have No Moat, and Neither Does OpenAI,” fretted that open-source AI would pillage Big Tech’s castle. A few years on, the castle walls remain safe. Apart from a brief bout of panic when DeepSeek first appeared, open-source AI models have not vastly outperformed proprietary models. Still, none of the frontier labs—OpenAI, Anthropic, Google—has a moat to speak of. The company that does have a moat is Nvidia. CEO Jensen Huang has called it his most precious “treasure.” It is not, as you might assume for a chip company, a piece of hardware. It’s something called CUDA. What sounds like a chemical compound banned by the FDA may be the one true moat in AI. CUDA …

Nvidia has already committed B to equity AI deals this year

Nvidia has already committed $40B to equity AI deals this year

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Nvidia continues to be a major investor in the AI ecosystem, committing more than $40 billion to equity investments in AI companies — and that’s just in these early months of 2026, according to CNBC. Much of that total comes from a single bet, a $30 billion investment in OpenAI. But CNBC reports that the chipmaker has also announced seven multi-billion dollar investments in publicly traded companies, most recently deals to invest up to $3.2 billion in glassmaker Corning and up to $2.1 billion in data center operator IREN. We’ve previously rounded up Nvidia’s investments in AI startups, including 67 venture deals in 2025. And according to FactSet data, it’s already participated in around two dozen investment rounds in private startups in 2026. The fact that Nvidia has been investing in some of its own customers has led to the recurring criticism that these are circular deals moving money back-and-forth between the same companies. Wedbush Securities analyst Matthew Bryson said Nvidia’s investments fall “squarely into the circular investment theme,” but suggested that if successful, they …

Thailand Emerges As Possible Hub In Nvidia Chip-Smuggling Channel To Alibaba

Thailand Emerges As Possible Hub In Nvidia Chip-Smuggling Channel To Alibaba

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New details have emerged in the alleged AI chip diversion scheme involving the co-founder of Super Micro Computer. Bloomberg reports that some of the $2.5 billion worth of servers containing advanced AI chips were allegedly routed through a Bangkok-based company before reaching Chinese AI leader Alibaba. The Bloomberg report noted: US prosecutors this year outlined a scheme in which Super Micro’s co-founder allegedly worked with an unnamed Southeast Asian company and a “rotating cast” of third-party brokers to divert the AI semiconductors in violation of US trade rules. The Southeast Asian firm the prosecutors didn’t name, identified only as Company-1, is Bangkok-based OBON Corp., the people said. Some of the $2.5 billion worth of servers sold to OBON allegedly went to Chinese AI leader Alibaba, according to the people, who requested anonymity to discuss a sensitive legal and geopolitical matter. It is important to note that OBON is linked to Thailand’s AI infrastructure buildout and the creation of Siam AI, Thailand’s sovereign cloud champion. Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang even appeared at a Siam AI event …

Japan’s SoftBank explores homegrown AI servers with Nvidia, Foxconn, Nikkei reports

Japan’s SoftBank explores homegrown AI servers with Nvidia, Foxconn, Nikkei reports

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May 8 : SoftBank Corp has begun discussions with U.S. chip giant Nvidia and Taiwanese contract manufacturer Foxconn as it weighs plans to build “made-in-Japan” artificial intelligence servers, the Nikkei newspaper reported on Friday. The Japanese telecom company wants to build a production system by initially assembling externally sourced components by the end of the decade, before eventually taking charge of the entire server manufacturing process, Nikkei added. The unit will focus on high-performance servers capable of running advanced graphics processing units at high speeds, the report also said. The project will be part of SoftBank’s medium-term management plan, which, according to Nikkei, could be announced as soon as Monday. The development comes after Masayoshi Son-led SoftBank Group poured in more than $30 billion in investments in OpenAI so far, for about an 11 per cent stake, in an “all-in” bet that it will emerge as a winner in the battle among developers of large language models. Source link

You don’t need a powerful PC to run the biggest open models anymore — thanks to Nvidia

You don’t need a powerful PC to run the biggest open models anymore — thanks to Nvidia

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I have been getting really into local LLMs lately, and I’ve even built my own local AI server. The problem is that it is an extremely expensive hobby, and I do not have thousands of dollars in hardware lying around to scratch that itch properly. But I still find myself wanting to try out the biggest open-weight models, and I think I have found a pretty good solution to that. Related I’ll never pay for AI again AI doesn’t have to cost you a dime—local models are fast, private, and finally worth switching to. Nvidia Build lets you run open-weight models your hardware can’t Inference for free Screenshot by Raghav -NAR Nvidia Build is basically Nvidia’s cloud inference platform for running local LLMs. Without complicating too much, Nvidia Build basically takes open-weight models, optimizes them to run on their own DGX Cloud hardware, and gives you API access to them. To get started, just head over to the Nvidia Build website and create a new account. Once you have done that, I would recommend going …