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The Lumi ‘AI Factory’ in Espoo, southern Finland, has announced plans to deploy an IQM quantum computer. Delivery of the Halocene H4 system is expected in 2027, with a series of upgrades to be delivered in multiple phases over an unspecified timeline in order to increase the numb

NVIDIA Nemotron 3 Ultra is offering leading performance at lower cost than top closed models with the largest and most widely adopted AI agent orchestration platform. LangChain tuned its Deep Agents harness for NVIDIA Nemotron 3 Ultra, achieving the highest accuracy among open mo

Vermilion Cliffs Ventures announced Wednesday the close of a $25 million Fund II. The firm was founded in 2023 by operator-turned-investor Ashley Smith, who runs it as one of the few solo women GPs in venture capital. Speaking to TechCrunch, Smith said this fund will continue the

Agentic systems often face a trade-off between accuracy and cost. The highest-performing proprietary frontier models and harnesses provide top accuracy but are expensive. Fine-tuning offers one way to address this problem. Smaller or more efficient open models starting with lower

Global consumer Wi-Fi router shipments fell 6% in Q1 2026, down 34% from 2021 peak — mesh systems and gaming routers still prove popular Amazon and Google mesh routers, along with gaming routers, bucked the declines of the broader market The Wi-Fi router market is facing headwind

AI compute platform provider SambaNova has raised $1 billion in a Series F round, led by General Atlantic. The company was valued at $11bn with significant investment from Seligman Ventures, T. Rowe Price Associates, Inc., and Capital Group. New and existing investors include A&E

SiPearl's long-awaited Rhea CPU finally gets in the lab, opening the door for Europe's first sovereign HPC CPU — 'availability of Rhea1 is scheduled for end of 2026' SiPearl VP says, following long development process A giant step forward for the whole HPC industry in Europe. Sip

Uneasy Streets: How Chinese Money Is Remaking Urban Britain by Caroline Knowles. China is planning a gigantic embassy in London, which will include secret rooms buried next to sensitive communications cables. It’s just one of many huge Chinese investment projects in Britain. Know

Divided Federal Reserve officials indicated at their last meeting that they will address persistent inflation this year with one interest rate hike. History, though, suggests that policymakers will have a hard time stopping there. In fact, there have been few instances over the p

The Discount That Would’ve Kept Us So we’re going to churn off Adobe Marketo. The irony: I was one of the first 10 Marketo customers. Ever. I’ve been a customer (with a break) for goodness, the better part of two decades. And a reference account for years. I did the calls. I told

Diskover finds and eliminates ROT data Diskover, the vast scale file and object data management supplier, has a way of increasing effective flash capacity; get rid of the useless data polluting it. The company’s software provides a wide and deep lens through which customers can f

MOST POPULAR AI - AI and ML OpenAI makes ChatGPT better at banter With GPT-Live, talking, listening, and formulating answers all happen at once - ai and ml The AI that spawned MechaHitler and deepfake porn puts on a suit to become legal advisor and Excel jockey The newly renamed

MOST POPULAR AI - AI and ML OpenAI makes ChatGPT better at banter With GPT-Live, talking, listening, and formulating answers all happen at once - ai and ml The AI that spawned MechaHitler and deepfake porn puts on a suit to become legal advisor and Excel jockey The newly renamed

Power company hikes data center bills by 30%, cuts residential electricity costs by 1.3% — Oregon approves change through POWER Act, pushes developments using more than 20 Megawatts of power to pay their fair share Residents no longer have to shoulder the costs of developing the

Why AI-Ready Data Is The Real Advantage Many ambitious enterprise AI projects stall before they ever reach production, and according to Nvidia's Kevin Deierling, the reason is not what most IT leaders expect. "In almost every environment we walk into, the compute works," says Dei

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Samsung Electronics announced mass production of the PM1763, its first PCIe 6.0 enterprise SSD built for AI and HPC server environments. We are just starting the transition to PCIe Gen6 systems with some hyper-scale CPUs, NVIDIA Vera, and soon AMD EPYC Venice launching with suppo

Meet the 33 cybersecurity startups joining the Gemini Startup Forum Sandra Joyce VP, Google Threat Intelligence Startups are at the forefront of tackling some of the world’s most complex challenges, especially in cybersecurity, where new ideas and adaptability are always needed.

object DDN gets Infinia ready for production AI inferencing DDN has updated its Infinia object storage SW to v2.4, saying that this is not a minor, maintenance, release. It represents a strategic expansion into AI Inference at scale, RAG and intelligent data lakes, and multi-prot

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Researchers from Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL), Cleveland Clinic, and IBM have used quantum computers to calculate nine molecular configurations of FLiBe, a molten salt material widely considered a leading candidate for tritium breeding in future fusion reactors. The work,

Senegal’s president announced plans to set up his own party, further deepening a rift at the top of the country’s political system after he fired his prime minister. President Bassirou Diomaye Faye gathered more than 300 mayors on Friday and asked his senior adviser to establish

South Africa’s Treasury has withheld budget allocations for Johannesburg and dozens of other municipalities, in a crackdown on allegedly wasteful spending just months before local government elections. Johannesburg, the financial hub of Africa’s biggest economy, is expected to be

Nigeria opened a $250 million lithium processing plant that underscores a wider push across Africa to capture more value from raw materials. The plant, built by Chinese companies Jiuling and Canmax in the northern state of Nasarawa, will process 3 million metric tons of lithium o

US rare earths produced by Washington-backed companies are flowing to Japan and South Korea, as American demand has yet to materialize despite the Trump administration’s push to develop a national supply chain. Rare earths products produced by MP Materials, Energy Fuels and Phoen

StorONE can tier disk data to existing all-flash arrays StorONE has extended its real-time tiering from disk to SSDs, enabling an allocated portion of existing all-flash arrays to be its high-performance tier with block-level caching of disk data on the flash to increase its effe

'Slopfix' software team charges $10,000 a week to delete AI-generated code bloat — ironically, the team uses AI agents to trim messy repositories by up to 65% Slopception. A software house (if you can call it that) known as 'Slopfix' has launched a fixed-price service that refact

Fi Ultra becomes first dog tracker powered by Starlink satellites – the Fi Ultra Dog Tracker makes Fido trackable via satellite, onboard GPS, and LTE connectivity Never lose Fido again, even if there’s no GPS or cellular connection. Smart pet technology firm Fi has launched the F

At the RAISE Summit in Paris, DDN introduced Infinia 2.4, the latest release of its AI data platform designed for production AI, large-scale inference, and sovereign AI deployments. The update expands enterprise capabilities with multi-tenancy, governance, identity management, an

Tom's Hardware Verdict Cooler Master’s 3DHP tech, presented in its Master V4 and V8 air coolers, is the biggest advancement in air cooling in years. But early adoption comes at a price. Pros - + 3D heatpipes allow for reduced fin area - + V4 Alpha is one of the quietest coolers o

Deep tech startup eNLife Research has raised Rs 6 crore in a seed funding round led by Piper Serica VC Fund. The proceeds will be deployed to build and validate its blood based biomarker platform, expand its Bengaluru based R&D team, and take its first diagnostic assay from proto

Editor's note: This tracker covers deals in 2026. To see deals from 2021 to 2025, click here. Trends in retail dealmaking — from initial public offerings to M&A — help explain where the industry is in a variety of ways. They reveal sector-level insights, speak to the macroeconomi

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MOST POPULAR AI - AI and ML OpenAI makes ChatGPT better at banter With GPT-Live, talking, listening, and formulating answers all happen at once - ai and ml The AI that spawned MechaHitler and deepfake porn puts on a suit to become legal advisor and Excel jockey The newly renamed

The rocket company founded by Jeff Bezos, Blue Origin, is raising private capital, the DealBook newsletter reported early Wednesday. According to the publication, the company is raising $10 billion, leading to a valuation of $130 billion. Coatue Management, a big asset manager, i

The UAE is deepening its relationship with Microsoft, as the government pushes to meet its own deadline to automate at least half of the public sector’s work using AI agents. Microsoft’s Copilot software is already on 35,000 Abu Dhabi government employees’ computers. Now, Incepti

Saudi Arabia’s debt levels could reach 60% of GDP by 2030, which could push up borrowing costs and put pressure on the government to tighten spending, according to consultancy Capital Economics. The kingdom’s debt levels, while low compared to most other countries, are expected t

Money transfers between Saudi Arabia and the UAE are being delayed or cancelled without explanation, forcing some businesses to route payments through third countries and some individuals to travel between the two Gulf states with large amounts of cash. The problem, first reporte

Cracked version of Assassin’s Creed Black Flag Resynced leaked days prior to official release despite Denuvo DRM protection — Denuvo unable to stop crackers, with some finding ways to completely remove it from other titles Crackers are now beating game studios and releasing pre-r