Canada funds North America's only cobalt refinery with C$20M commitment
Electra Battery Materials secures definitive Canadian government funding for its Ontario cobalt sulfate refinery, completing a $48M tri-government capital stack and eliminating the continent's last critical minerals processing gap.
DHL commits to 1,000+ Boston Dynamics robots, signaling volume inflection
DHL Group signed an MOU with Boston Dynamics on May 13, 2025, to deploy over 1,000 Stretch robots globally by 2030, expanding from container unloading into case picking, the largest single logistics operator robot commitment yet announced.
Tenstorrent ships Galaxy Blackhole, taking on Nvidia in inference
Tenstorrent began volume production of Galaxy Blackhole, a $110,000 AI inference server that claims 23 PFLOPS performance and 350+ tokens per second, challenging Nvidia's GPU dominance with a clean-sheet hardware design.
Tenstorrent's $110K AI Server Challenges Nvidia's Inference Dominance
Tenstorrent launches Galaxy Blackhole inference servers at 3-5x cheaper per node than Nvidia DGX, with 16 units already deployed at Equinix and performance claims that undercut the GPU+LPU disaggregation trend.