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Recent advancements in AI chip technology are being demonstrated through a collaborative initiative between Otto Group and Sereact. The partners are deploying up to 25 NVIDIA-powered AI-controlled robots in a logistics center to automate the labor-intensive task of handling returned items. Utilizing Sereact’s Cortex Physical AI, the robots are capable of processing items without prior…

San Francisco-based startup Niobia is betting big on a critical but often overlooked part of battery and chip making: helping engineers understand how and why things go wrong. Its AI software flags production defects and lets engineers ask a chatbot what caused them, aiming to deliver answers in minutes rather than days.

Throughout the history of the computer chip, engineers have treated waste heat as an inevitable cost of a calculation. Hannah Earley, however, thinks it’s a design choice. Earley, 31, is cofounder and chief technology officer of Vaire Computing, a startup building chips that recycle energy usually thrown away as heat—a strategy known as reversible computing.…