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Despite fears about robots replacing humans at work, there are still plenty of things humans can do far better than machines. That’s fine with Robust AI, a startup building robots designed to complement what humans do best. The company’s mobile robot, named Carter, resembles a utility cart on wheels and is designed to fit seamlessly…

The use of algorithms to design structures has led to new parts optimized for ultralight aircraft, high-bandwidth antennas, and F1 racing cars. But the best algorithmic design techniques still require lots of computation and time: Users only see the final design after it’s complete, after which they often must start the design process all over…

An Unemployment Labs analysis by Will DePue, published November 12, 2026, found initialization patterns consistent with NVIDIA’s export-controlled Blackwell GPUs in six open-weight models from DeepSeek, Moonshot AI, MiniMax and Ant Group. The analysis associates DeepSeek-V4-Flash and MiniMax-M3 with initialization on B200 or B300 chips, and DeepSeek-V4-Pro, Kimi K3, Kimi K3.1-Pro and Ling-3.1-flash with GB200…

House Ways and Means ranking member Richard E. Neal and Senate Finance ranking member Ron Wyden opened an investigation on November 12, 2026 into the Trump administration’s approval and taxation of Nvidia H200 AI-chip sales to Chinese companies, including a 25% tariff, and demanded that relevant records be preserved. The letter to Commerce Secretary Howard…

DuPont announced on November 12, 2026 a research collaboration with Microsoft and NobleAI that will broaden access to AI and machine-learning tools for its scientists and engineers, with the goal of reducing the time needed to deliver customer solutions. Each company contributes a different component. DuPont supplies expertise in advanced solutions and applications; NobleAI provides…

Cerebras Systems raised its full-year revenue forecast on November 12, 2026, after third-quarter GAAP revenue rose 55% year over year to a record $210.8 million. Cloud and other services revenue jumped 265% to $141.9 million, growth the company attributed to demand for high-speed AI inference, but its GAAP net loss widened to $161.2 million. Cerebras…

IBM announced on November 12, 2026 that it had acquired AuthMind, an identity-security company focused on observing identity activity and detecting threats. IBM plans to integrate AuthMind more deeply into HashiCorp Vault so organizations can protect credentials and secrets when they are issued and as AI agents use them across applications, tools and data. The…

Dallas-based 4Minds announced on November 12, 2026 that it raised $15 million in a Series A at a $500 million post-money valuation to advance its contextual AI platform and reach more enterprises, including highly regulated organizations. Investors include Waterwood Capital Group, Isom Holdings and family offices from the energy and data center ecosystem. The round…

Luminal has raised a $25 million Series A led by Standard Capital, the investor announced on November 12, 2026. The AI infrastructure startup is expanding its compiler and hosted inference business across Nvidia, AMD and specialized chips, with a focus on extracting more useful work from hardware customers already own. Co-founders Joe Fioti, Jake Stevens…

SpaceX on November 12, 2026 announced plans for two AI supercomputing campuses representing more than $74 billion in planned investment: up to $24 billion at Starbase, Texas, and roughly $50 billion in Cochise County, Arizona, where county approval is still required. The Starbase facility is intended to train frontier AI systems for medical research, emergency…