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TechCrunch 1 month ago 43
Mecka AI is nearing a Sequoia Capital–led funding round after collecting human motion data for humanoid-robot training. The company is valued at about $500 million, three months after raising $60 million. This new round would expand its physical-data collection effort that it uses to train robotics models.
TheSequence 1 month ago 8
The Sequence Opinion’s Issue 931 argues that robotics is waiting for a ChatGPT-like moment where people can teach robots through conversation with minimal setup. Issue 931 is number 931. It says conversational models make new tasks easier to explore, but real-world progress still hinges on learning, control, and the economics of deploying robots in new environments.
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16 October 2026
AI infrastructure kept the spotlight today, and it wasn’t just abstract “compute demand.” TSMC posted a record profit for its sixth straight quarter—Q3 net income up 68.7% to 763 billion New Taiwan dollars (about $24 billion)—and also moved the needle on Elon Musk’s planned Terafab chip factory by setting conditions that the facility be run by TSMC, tightening the control question that will determine how quickly new capacity can actually feed cutting-edge models.
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