AGP Executive Report
Last update: 10 hours agoMilan Innovation Push: Fastweb+Vodafone opened an Innovation Hub at SmartCityLab in Milan, partnering with a PwC-led consortium to back Italian startups and SMBs with new experimentation and collaboration. AI for Industry: VAST Data expanded its collaboration with AMD to help AI cloud providers and enterprises run “AI factories” at scale, aiming to improve how data and compute are managed for training and inference. AI Hardware Race: AMD unveiled Helios, a rack-scale AI system meant to challenge Nvidia’s datacenter dominance, with shipments planned later this year. Startup Safety Tech: Genoa-based Generative Bionics debuted its Gene.01 humanoid robot, highlighting pre-contact sensing via distributed tactile skin—built for safer human-robot work. Robotics for Farming: Nanovel won an EIC Accelerator grant to commercialize autonomous citrus-harvesting robots, with field trials in Spain and Italy and a target launch in 2028. Compliance Pressure: A new GDPR email-marketing guide flags tougher 2026 enforcement on small and mid-sized senders, including consent, tracking pixels, and unsubscribe handling.
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