Email: Agility runs NVIDIA 🦵, Intel CTO on chips 🧠, world sims for AI 🌍

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Agility runs NVIDIA 🦵, Intel CTO on chips 🧠, world sims for AI 🌍
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                                        &lt;strong&gt;Agility's Digit 5 humanoid robot will run on Nvidia as it heads for Nasdaq (4 minute read)&lt;/strong&gt;
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                                    Agility Robotics will use Nvidia's IGX Thor modules as the exclusive onboard computer for the general-sale version of Digit 5, with early access starting in the first half of 2027. The robot also adopts parts of Nvidia's Halos safety platform, whose inspection lab will check Digit's safety software before outside certification. Agility reports more than $300 million in multi-year Digit 5 orders, four new customers, and a new Pittsburgh site, as it prepares to list on Nasdaq via a merger with Churchill Capital Corp XI.
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                                        &lt;strong&gt;SpaceX books a $561M unrealized gain on its Boring Co. stake (2 minute read)&lt;/strong&gt;
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