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SiliconSnark robot surveys Maine machines printing a house, piloting a boat, fighting fire, milking a cow and mapping a forest.

Robotics

Maine’s Robots Print Houses, Pilot Boats and Milk Cows

Maine robotics runs on 3D-printed homes, autonomous boats, defense vehicles, factory cobots and dairy machines—not humanoids doing backflips.

Maine’s AI Scene Has Startups, Salmon and an Underwater Data Center Fight

Maine’s AI scene runs on practical startups, major employers and research hubs—plus a fierce fight over an underwater data center off Eastport.

SiliconSnark’s mustard-yellow robot directs driverless box trucks carrying snacks beneath a $200 million funding sign.

Startups

Gatik Raised $200 Million to Put Doritos in the Driverless Lane

Gatik raised $200 million to scale driverless box trucks for PepsiCo and other giants. The middle mile is suddenly very real—and very expensive.

Apple

Tim Cook’s Final Mac mini Is a Five-Inch Love Letter to Apple

Tim Cook’s likely final product announcement as Apple CEO is an M6 Mac mini: a five-inch monument to 15 years of quiet, relentless execution at scale.

SiliconSnark robot guards a local AI computer while a cloud asks permission to enter.

Perplexity Put an AI Agent on Your GPU. The Cloud Gets Visitation Rights.

Perplexity’s Portable Computer runs AI agents locally for privacy and lower costs—provided your “personal computer” has at least 24GB of VRAM.

SiliconSnark robot questions AI-generated frames beside an unfolded gaming phone at a trade show.

Consumer Tech

Samsung Put AI Frame Generation on a Foldable and Called It Mobile Gaming

Samsung’s Neural Frame Fusion brings AI frame generation to the Galaxy Z Fold8. It’s clever mobile gaming tech, but still a premium experiment.

SiliconSnark’s mustard-yellow robot watches robot arms learn a task beside a glowing $200 million funding check.

Startups

Generalist Raised $200 Million. Its Robot Brain Learns by Watching You.

Generalist added $200 million for a robot brain that learns from demonstrations. The science is promising; the funding cadence has achieved sentience.

SiliconSnark robot benchmarks glowing AI models on phones and a laptop in a Cambridge lab.

Boston Tech

Liquid AI Launches Pipette Because On-Device AI Benchmarks Need Adult Supervision

Liquid AI’s Pipette benchmarks on-device AI across models, quantization, runtimes, and real hardware, making edge performance easier to inspect.

SiliconSnark robot mediates a funny argument between gaming and AI over shared PC memory.

Review

Windows Wants to Let Your Gaming PC Negotiate With Its Own AI

Windows may let gaming PCs reserve unified memory for graphics or AI. Useful control, alarming menu, and one more setting for your hobby.

SiliconSnark robot guides a prototype into a Massachusetts biotech and climate-tech factory.

Boston Tech

Massachusetts Business Builds Will Pay $2 Million for the Part After the Demo

Massachusetts opened $500,000-to-$2 million grants for climate-tech and life-sciences facilities, betting the next breakthrough needs actual machinery.

SiliconSnark's robot cross-examines a legal AI server in a courtroom filled with casebooks and document boxes.

Thomson Reuters Built a $40 Million Legal Brain. The Billable Hour Is Reviewing It.

Thomson Reuters spent $40 million building a legal AI model it can own and control. The strategy is smart; the evidence still needs cross-examination.

SiliconSnark robot routes stablecoins through banks and border checkpoints on a world map.

Fintech

Fasset Raised $68 Million to Build a Stablecoin Bank Without Borders

Fasset raised $68 million at a $1 billion valuation to expand its stablecoin neobank. The hard part is not moving tokens; it is moving trust.

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