Robot Boxing Is Here… For Real

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Happy Saturday!

Markets remain a mess amid the tariff madness, but technology is accelerating at Godspeed.

Let’s get to it…

Robot Boxing Is Here… For Real

Unitree’s humanoid robot, G1, is ready for the ring!

Standing 51 inches and equipped with LiDAR, depth cameras, and powered joints, G1 can punch, dodge, and maintain balance in real-time.

The company will livestream the robot rumble — Iron Fist King: Awakening — in about a month, though no official date has been announced.

Boxing Bots are no longer a Hollywood sci-fi – robot boxing is here, for real.

Ironwood: The First Google TPU

Google unveiled Ironwood, its most advanced AI chip to date — engineered specifically for inference, the stage where AI generates real-time responses.

Each unit delivers 4,600 teraflops of processing power and includes 192GB of high-speed memory. At scale, it reaches 42 exaflops, exceeding the capabilities of the world’s fastest supercomputer.

Ironwood will power Google Cloud’s infrastructure, supporting everything from conversational AI to search and real-time analytics with greater speed and efficiency.

As large language models (LLMs) grow in size and complexity, performance has started to lag. Ironwood addresses this head-on — accelerating AI response times and enabling smoother, more scalable deployment.

Learn more about Google’s Ironwood TPU here.

The Nuclear Shift

Public support for nuclear power is climbing. A new Gallup poll shows 61% of Americans now favor it — one point shy of its all-time high of 62% in 2010. What was once politically untouchable is becoming a clean, stable energy solution.

Governments are responding. The UK has entered final negotiations for its Small Modular Reactor (SMR) program, with Rolls-Royce and Westinghouse leading bids.

In the U.S. and China, rising demand from AI and data centers fuels the next wave of development, with nuclear power poised to meet the growing load.

Still, friction remains. As I previously shared, companies like Valar Atomics are navigating outdated regulatory frameworks.

The sentiment is shifting. The question is whether policy will move fast enough to meet the moment.

Palantir Wants You To Skip The Degree

Palantir opened applications for its Meritocracy Fellowship — a four-month, full-time program for high school grads who opt out of higher ed.

The Fellowship pays up to $5,400 a month, with applicants needing at least a 1460 SAT or 33 ACT to qualify.

The young studs will work directly on the company’s core products alongside its engineers and operators.

No lectures. No dorms. This is real work.

Building Better Browsing Agents

OpenAI launched BrowseComp, a new benchmark to test how well AI agents can find hard-to-reach information online.

It includes 1,266 challenges — questions designed to confuse, mislead, or stay buried. The tasks require critical thinking, source comparison, and persistence.

Today, most benchmarks test trivia. BrowseComp tests research. Think legal work, competitive intel, or analyst-grade digging.

The goal? Build AI agents that don’t just search — but investigate.

Read OpenAI’s full whitepaper here.

Base Power’s $200M Series B

Texas-based Base Power raised $200M in Series B funding from a16z, Lightspeed, Addition, and Valor.

The company installs large home batteries and sells excess energy back to the grid — cutting costs for homeowners while stabilizing demand.

With 1,500+ members across 70 towns, Base is scaling fast and capital is flowing toward companies reinventing energy infrastructure.

Read Base Power’s official press release here.