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Emerald AI Raises $150M Series A at $1.05B Valuation to Scale Power-Flexible AI Data Centers
Insider Brief Emerald AI raised $150 million in an oversubscribed Series A at a $1.05 billion valuation, co-led by Energize Capitaland DCVC, with 12 Fortune Global 500 companies now among its investors, including NVIDIA, Samsung Ventures, Siemens, and Salesforce Ventures. The company’s Emerald Conductor software platform dynamically orchestrates AI computational workloads and onsite energy resources,…
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Alice Secures $140M to Make Sure AI Does Exactly What It’s Supposed to Do
Insider Brief Alice, an AI trust, safety, and security company formerly known as ActiveFence, raised a $140 million funding round led by Apax Digital Funds, with participation from MoreTech, Phoenix Financial, and existing investors including Resolute Ventures, CRV, and Norwest, bringing total funding to $280 million. The company is approaching $100 million in ARR, with…
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Google Updates Android Requirements, Expands AI Travel Booking, And Rehires Former OpenAI Executive
Google announced new app quality requirements for Android developers this week, addressing industrywide memory chip shortages tied to the AI data center boom by introducing performance thresholds around dynamic memory and bitmap usage, along with code optimization standards to reduce slowdowns and crashes. The company will provide developer tools flagging apps that exceed these thresholds,…
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Nvidia Expands Amazon Partnership With 2 Million GPU Deal While Reportedly Nearing $12.9B Hugging Face Acquisition
Nvidia and Amazon announced an expanded partnership Wednesday that includes deploying an additional 2 million Nvidia GPUs, including Blackwell Ultra, Rubin, and Rubin Ultra chips, across Amazon Web Services data centers in 2027 and 2028. The deal follows an agreement five months earlier to deploy over 1 million GPUs, with Nvidia stating that demand had…
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Every machine is about to speak Claude
Read Online | Sign Up | Advertise Good morning, {{ first_name | AI enthusiasts }}, and welcome to our 2,879 new readers. Anthropic’s Model Context Protocol (MCP) started as a connector and eventually became the default way AI agents talk to software. The company’s next act is getting a bit more physical. The new Model…
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Anthropic Signs $45B Compute Deal With British Infrastructure Firm Nscale
Anthropic has signed a deal to rent approximately $45 billion in AI compute from Nscale, a British AI infrastructure company, according to a source familiar with the matter. Nscale, founded in 2024 and already partnered with Microsoft, will supply Anthropic with computing power built on Nvidia’s new Vera Rubin chip system, a six-chip architecture representing…
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10 Nordic-Based AI Scale-Ups You Need to Know in 2026
The Nordics have built a reputation for pairing deep technical rigor with a genuine focus on solving specific, high-stakes problems, and this list bears that out. Sweden contributes the largest share, with entries spanning video analytics, data observability, and driving risk insights, while Denmark brings clinical AI for radiology and elder care, and Finland and…
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Quintessent Raises $40M Series A and Begins Sampling First Product for AI Optical Interconnects
Insider Brief Quintessent raised $40 million in an oversubscribed Series A led by Cycle Capital, with new investors including Goldman Sachs XIG-Industry Ventures, Susquehanna International Group, and Ciena, alongside existing backers Foothill Ventures, M Ventures, Osage University Partners, and Sierra Ventures. The company also began customer sampling of its single-chip quantum dot-based DWDM comb laser,…
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Startup Keenable Announces $26M in Funding To Build Web Search Infrastructure Built For AI Agents
Keenable, founded by former Yandex search executive Andrey Styskin and AI scientist Matthias Petri, emerged from stealth with $26 million in seed funding led by Accel, with participation from Conviction Partners and angel investors. The startup is building web search infrastructure specifically designed for AI chatbots and agents, arguing that existing search tools were optimized…
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Google’s Gemini Live Update Highlights Broader AI Industry Struggle With Overcomplicated Interfaces
Google announced new voice features for Gemini Live on Wednesday, promising users wouldn’t need to determine which specific feature, such as Spark or Daily Brief, a given task required. However, the company’s own branding structure undercuts that goal, with the Gemini app splitting functionality across multiple distinctly branded features, each with separate icons and navigation,…
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