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News March 29, 2026

OpenAI Leases 202,400-Square-Foot Richmond Warehouse, Likely Home for Second Robotics Lab

OpenAI signed a lease for a 202,400-square-foot industrial warehouse at Richmond's Portside Commerce Center, county records show. The facility — previously vacant after battery startup Moxion Power collapsed — aligns with Business Insider's January report that OpenAI told employees it planned to open a second robotics lab in Richmond. The deal adds to over 1.6 million square feet of Bay Area space OpenAI has secured in recent months.

News March 28, 2026

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Physical Intelligence in Talks to Raise $1 Billion at $11 Billion Valuation, Doubling in Four Months

The two-year-old San Francisco robotics startup Physical Intelligence is in discussions to raise about $1 billion in new funding at a valuation exceeding $11 billion, according to Bloomberg. The deal would nearly double the company's $5.6 billion valuation from its November 2025 round, with Founders Fund expected to join returning backers Thrive Capital and Lux Capital.

News March 20, 2026

3 min read

Chinese Developers Put OpenClaw Inside Unitree's G1 Humanoid Robot — While the US Debates Regulation

Business Insider reports Chinese labs have integrated OpenClaw into Unitree's G1 humanoid robot for real-time command interpretation and physical navigation. A separate team demonstrated remote-controlling humanoid robots through orbital edge computing. OpenClaw just left the laptop.

News March 19, 2026

4 min read

GTC 2026 Closes With Disney's Kamino Robotics Platform, T-Mobile Edge AI, and a $1 Trillion Forecast

NVIDIA's three-day GTC 2026 conference ended with Disney revealing Kamino, its GPU-accelerated simulator that trained a robotic Olaf to walk on a moving boat using deep reinforcement learning. T-Mobile announced an edge AI partnership for cell tower infrastructure, and Jensen Huang reiterated his $1 trillion revenue forecast through 2027.

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