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Cisco brings enterprise AI infrastructure to the edge: CUBEd Award winner

Artificial intelligence is changing the technology equation in numerous ways, including how enterprises approach edge computing. Much of today’s edge infrastructure was not built to support AI workloa

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EU finds that Meta breached bloc’s rules with its social network interfaces

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The European Union has tentatively found that Meta Platforms Inc. breached the bloc’s DSA tech industry law. The European Commission, the EU’s executive arm, published its conclusions today. The DSA,

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Memory chip giant SK hynix bags $26.5B in blockbuster US listing

South Korean memory chipmaker SK hynix Inc. has priced its American Depository Receipts at 149, raising around 26.5 billion ahead of its debut on the Nasdaq exchange Friday. The decision to list its s

Open-source AI model developer MiniMax raises $2B in funding

MiniMax Group Inc., a Shanghai-based artificial intelligence developer, is raising 2 billion in funding. Bloomberg reported on Thursday that more than half the funds are expected to come from the sale

Pulling out the AI stops at RAISE Paris

Everyone who’s anyone in the crazy artificial intelligence world attended the RAISE Summit in Paris this week. Bigger, noisier and more crowded than last year’s installment, this year’s summit feature

VAST Data targets KV cache storage and neoclouds as AI infrastructure enters the exabyte era

As AI infrastructure investment scales globally and inference workloads multiply, cache storage is emerging as the critical data layer that makes AI factories functional, persistent and economically v

Web data scraping infrastructure startup Oxylabs reels in $130M in its first funding round

Data scraping startup Oxylabs UAB has broken into unicorn territory after raising 130 million in funding from the private equity firm Warburg Pincus LLC. The round is the first time the bootstrapped c

AI agent startup Lyzr reportedly raising 100M at 500M valuation

Lyzr Inc., a startup that helps enterprises build artificial intelligence agents, is reportedly raising a funding round worth about 100 million. Bloomberg today cited sources as saying that the deal h

AMD targets system-level AI infrastructure optimization as agentic workloads reshape enterprise compute

Infrastructure design is being redefined by agentic AI, pushing the industry toward system-level AI infrastructure optimization, balancing performance and cost across diverse workloads rather than foc

Blue Origin seeks to raise $10B from external investors in first VC-led funding round

Jeff Bezos’s rocket company Blue Origin Enterprises LP is reportedly looking to raise money from outside investors for the first time in more than two decades. The company is in talks to secure 10 bil

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Cerebras Systems positions inference speed as the defining edge in AI infrastructure

The race to build the fastest AI infrastructure is reshaping the semiconductor industry, with inference speed emerging as the defining competitive dimension of the AI era. As AI model wars intensify a

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Cyolo launches CPS Segmentation to curb lateral movement in OT networks

Secure remote privileged access company Cyolo Ltd. today announced Cyolo CPS Segmentation, a microsegmentation product that extends its platform beyond human-to-machine access into controlling how mac

Darktrace finds AI gateway with Amazon Bedrock access hijacked for cryptomining

Researchers at U.K.-based cybersecurity company Darktrace Holdings Ltd. today detailed a cloud intrusion in which a compromised artificial intelligence gateway tied to Amazon Web Services Inc.’s Amazo

Data sovereignty emerges as the defining moat in the agentic AI era

As agentic AI accelerates enterprise transformation, data sovereignty is crystallizing from a compliance checkbox into a foundational strategic imperative — one that determines not just where data liv

DDN targets GPU efficiency with AI data infrastructure as the make-or-break layer

The race to build AI factories is well underway, and the winning organizations have learned that AI data infrastructure determines whether or not GPU investments pay off, while others are still scramb

Exclusive: Corvic AI launches V5 to turn one-off prompts into repeatable workflows

Enterprise artificial intelligence startup Corvic AI Inc. today released Corvic V5, a version of its platform built around reusing prompts, so when one gets the right answer, V5 can save it as a workf

Fast token generation emerges as the key differentiator as heterogeneous inference takes hold

The race for fast token generation has moved from benchmark sheets into production data centers, and the hardware blueprint for winning it is no longer a GPU-only story. As agentic AI use cases multip

Market data platform startup Databento closes 97M round after drawing 300M in investor demand

Market data platform startup Databento Inc. today revealed that it has raised 97 million in new funding to broaden its data coverage across asset classes and expand internationally. Investor demand ra

Mercor buys Deeptune to build training environments for AI agents

Artificial intelligence training data company Mercor.io Corp. announced today that it has acquired Deeptune Inc., a startup that builds simulated software environments used to train AI agents. Financi

Meta launches flagship Muse Spark 1.1 model with multi-agent upgrades

Meta Platforms Inc. today launched a new flagship large language model optimized to power multi-agent automation workflows. Muse Spark 1.1 is available in the company’s Meta AI chatbot service and via

Meta reportedly testing prototype AI specs that record everything the user sees and hears

Meta Platforms Inc. this week sought to reassure consumers about the privacy safeguards of its controversial artificial intelligence-enabled glasses, yet at the same time it’s reportedly pushing even

Mindbeam sets generative AI models to task on drug design, hunting for better pain meds

Enterprise artificial intelligence infrastructure startup Mindbeam AI Inc. today published research showing how generative AI can aid in the discovery of safer pain-relief drugs. The company used acet

Open-source AI developer tool Ollama raises $65M to grow its platform

Ollama Inc., the largest artificial intelligence platform connecting developers to open models, today announced it has raised 65 million in a new funding round led by Theory Ventures. Benchmark, 8VC,

OpenAI debuts ChatGPT Work, an agentic tool for automating business workflows

OpenAI Group PBC today launched a new “agentic” tool called ChatGPT Work as it announced the global rollout of its most advanced model family so far in GPT-5.6. ChatGPT Work is a new mode within ChatG

Permiso brings FICO-style risk scores to human, machine and AI identities

Unified identity security platform provider Permiso Security Inc. today launched the Risk Score Engine, a model that assigns continuous, multidimensional risk scores to every human, machine and artifi

PitchBook: US venture funding hits $412.7B in first half as AI deals dominate

U.S. venture capital deal value hit 412.7 billion in the first half of 2026, nearly 30% more than investors put to work in all of last year — and a small cluster of giant artificial intelligence round

Prime Intellect raises 130M at 1B valuation for its AI training platform

Artificial intelligence training startup Prime Intellect Inc. has raised 130 million in funding from a group of prominent investors. The consortium included Nvidia Corp.’s NVentures, Intel Capital and

QIZ Security raises $17M seed round for post-quantum readiness platform

Cybersecurity startup QIZ Security Ltd. today announced it has raised 17 million in seed funding to expand a platform that discovers and governs the encryption buried across enterprise systems ahead o

TheCUBE Research finds Oracle’s AI database move could unlock bigger multicloud returns

A new economic analysis from theCUBE Research found that migrating from a fragmented, on-premises data estate to Oracle Corp.’s Autonomous AI Database on Multicloud can deliver meaningful modernizatio

Token per watt becomes the defining metric as storage moves to AI’s critical path

Token per watt — not raw compute — is emerging as the defining efficiency metric for AI data centers, putting storage at the center of an infrastructure rethink that is reshaping how the industry meas

10 insights from the Machina AI Summit: Physical AI moves from demos to deployment

Physical AI and robotics are moving beyond impressive demonstrations into a new phase of practical deployment, with companies now targeting specific, high-value use cases in manufacturing and logistic

Apple promises to buy $30B worth of US-made chips from Broadcom

Apple Inc. said today it has penciled in a new multiyear deal with Broadcom Inc. that’s expected to be worth more than 30 billion, in what is the iPhone maker’s largest commitment to U.S. manufacturin

Argentum targets the capital stack as the missing layer in AI infrastructure buildout

The AI infrastructure boom has trained the industry’s attention on silicon and power, but a more fundamental constraint within the capital stack is quietly throttling the speed of global data center d

Arkenstone Defense launches with $35M to help startups sell to the Pentagon

Federal contracting software startup Arkenstone Defense Inc. formally launched today with 35 million in new funding to take on the compliance, security and workforce setup that keeps many commercial t

DeepFabric ships more than 50 AI agents for supply chain operations

Supply chain artificial intelligence startup DeepFabric today announced the general availability of an AI agent platform built for supply chain execution, and a roster of enterprise customers is alrea

Ex-GitHub chief’s Entire opens distributed Git network for the AI agent era

Entire Inc., the developer-platform startup founded by former GitHub Chief Executive Thomas Dohmke, today launched a preview of a distributed Git network built to let artificial intelligence coding ag

Inference chip startup SambaNova valued at 11B in 1B funding round

Chip startup SambaNova Inc. today announced that it has raised 1 billion in funding at a 11 billion valuation. General Atlantic led the Series F round with contributions from more than a dozen others.

Kaon AI raises $60M to build the next generation of AI-driven interactive entertainment

Kaon AI, a generative artificial intelligence platform and research outfit formerly known as FlowGPT that provides online interactive entertainment, today announced it has raised 60 million across rec

Meta launches image generation model with coding, search capabilities

Meta Platforms Inc. today debuted an image generation model that can write code and search the web. Muse Image is the second algorithm released to date by Meta Superintelligence Labs, the company’s ar

OpenAI launches GPT-Live voice model series ahead of broad GPT-5.6 release

OpenAI Group PBC today introduced GPT-Live, a family of artificial intelligence models optimized to process spoken instructions. The model series will power ChatGPT’s voice mode. Additionally, OpenAI

Quantum startup Oratomic banks $300M to race straight to fault-tolerance

Oratomic Inc., a quantum computing startup, has raised 300 million in early-stage funding to scale its quantum hardware and accelerate its path to fault tolerance and error correction, creating the ne

Refiant goes where rivals only promised with a 10 million-token AI model

Artificial intelligence optimization startup Refiant Inc. today launched Protea, a suite of long-context AI models led by a 10 million-token context window that the company says ranks among the larges

Salesforce enhances Slackbot with connectors to the entire platform ecosystem

Salesforce Inc. today announced new updates for Slackbot, the company’s personal artificial intelligence agent in Slack, giving it full access to every part of the Salesforce ecosystem. “Slackbot can

Solidigm targets the intelligence layer as agentic inference pushes storage to center stage

The shift from model training to agentic inference is forcing a fundamental rethink of how artificial intelligence infrastructure is built and which components carry the most strategic weight. What wa

SpaceXAI’s newest AI model Grok 4.5 dramatically undercuts Anthropic and OpenAI on price

Elon Musk’s SpaceXAI Corp. has released a new model called Grok 4.5, in what is its first major launch since it went public a few weeks earlier. In a blog post earlier today, the company said Grok 4.5

Superhuman launches Docs, merging writing, AI and data for document collaboration

Superhuman Inc., the company formerly known as Grammarly, today announced the launch of Docs, a product that enables multiple users to collaborate on writing using artificial intelligence. Docs contai

Tensordyne targets AI inference market with logarithmic math and Juniper-derived rack architecture

The race to serve AI inference faster and cheaper is exposing the hard limits of conventional chip architecture. As demand for real-time AI responses accelerates, the industry’s standard response — st

With $25M in funding, Alta AI aims to accelerate go-to-market automation

Agentic go-to-market automation startup Alta AI Inc. said today it has raised 25 million in an early-stage round of funding as it tries to accelerate its mission to enhance customer acquisition for en