Solaris Energy Infrastructure Upsizes Bond Sale to $1.25 Billion at 7% to Fund Its AI Data Center Power Buildout
Solaris Energy Infrastructure (NYSE: SEI) has priced $1.25 billion of senior notes paying 7% and due April 1, 2032. The deal launched at $1.0 billion…
Domo Sale to Progress Software Closes; What’s Left Becomes Huckleberry.ai With $221 Million in Cash and $900 Million in Tax Losses
Progress Software has closed its purchase of Domo’s business. Progress (Nasdaq: PRGS) now owns Domo’s AI and data platform, its employees and substantially all of…
Heidi Raises $340 Million and Doubles Its Valuation to $900 Million as AI Medical Scribes Turn Into Clinical Agents
Heidi, the Melbourne AI medical scribe company, has raised $340 million in new capital. The money comes in two parts. A $100 million Series C…
Atomera Takes Aim at 4F² DRAM With a Junctionless Vertical Transistor Paper at SISPAD 2026
Atomera (Nasdaq: ATOM) will present work on 4F² DRAM at SISPAD 2026, the semiconductor process and device simulation conference, held this year in Kumamoto, Japan.…
China PC Shipments Rise 11% in Q2 on Xinchuang Buying, but Omdia Forecasts a 6% Drop for 2026
Mainland China shipped 11.4 million PCs in the second quarter, up 11% on a year earlier, according to Omdia. The growth came almost entirely from…
Go.AI Raises $85 Million Series A to Put On-Prem AI Inside Banks, Hospitals and Defense Contractors
Go.AI, until recently called Go Abacus, has raised an $85 million Series A led by Updata Partners, with existing investors GFT Ventures and LAUNCH joining.…
Teledyne e2v Launches Nexora 12MP and 16MP Backside-Illuminated Global Shutter Sensors for Machine Vision
Teledyne e2v has launched Nexora, a new family of backside-illuminated global shutter CMOS image sensors. The first two parts are a 12 MP sensor at…
Marvell Demonstrates 2nm Optical Interconnects for 3.2T AI Data Centers
Marvell Technology is pushing its optical connectivity roadmap further into the 2nm era, announcing what it describes as industry-first demonstrations of several 2nm optical interconnect…
Dell Launches $999 XPS Googlebook With Snapdragon X Elite and Gemini AI
Dell is taking its premium XPS brand into a new category with the XPS Googlebook, a 13-inch laptop built around Google’s new Googlebook platform and…
Tech Digest, September 21, 2026: China’s Stock Tax Take Jumps 80%, SoftBank Lines Up $10B of Debt for OpenAI
Beijing collected $32.3 billion in stamp duty on stock sales from January through August, up more than 80% year over year, with average daily turnover…
Apple’s Siri Home Hub, Raspberry Pi’s AI Skeptic, CXMT’s New LPDDR5X and Polymarket’s Laundering Scare
Eight stories worth your time today. Apple is betting on the home, a chip maker in China just hit a memory milestone, doctors are pushing…
Tech Digest: September 17–18, 2026
The CFTC exempted “passive software” providers from broker registration as long as they never hold user assets, per Bloomberg’s Lydia Beyoud, a move that opens…
Top 10 Emerging Technologies in 2026
Every major research house puts out its own “emerging technologies” list this time of year, and most of them read like a wish list: promising,…
The World Economic Forum and Forrester Can’t Agree on What Counts as Emerging Technology in 2026
Every year brings a fresh crop of “top 10 emerging technologies” lists, and every year they get treated as one conversation. They’re not. Look at…
Snap’s AI Glasses, Faraday Future’s Robot Push, and Fresh AI Funding Lead the Sept. 16-17 Tech Wire
Snap used Tuesday to reposition itself as more than a camera company. The SPECS Intelligence launch pairs the hardware refresh detailed in a companion release,…
Bending Spoons Buys Miro at a 90% Discount
The biggest deal of the day came with a brutal haircut. Bending Spoons agreed to buy Miro for cash at an enterprise value of $1.355…
Morning Tech Digest, September 10, 2026: Chinese AI Chip Prices Up 20% to 50% on HBM Costs, Nasdaq’s $100 Million Kraken Bet
Overnight into Thursday morning. The memory squeeze reached end-customer pricing in China, two card networks sat down with Ant to write rules for agent payments,…
Apple Watch Series 12 and Ultra 4: The Hard Part of Audio Intelligence Is Everyone Not Wearing the Watch
Apple put a microphone on your wrist that listens continuously, holds the last fifteen seconds of whatever was said near you, and can write a…
Apple iPhone 18 Pro: The Base Price Rose $100, the Top Storage Step Rose $600
Apple raised the entry price of the iPhone 18 Pro by $100, to $1,199 for 256GB. Every write-up led with that figure. The number that…
Anthropic Walks Away From $6 Billion Decart Acquisition
Anthropic has reportedly walked away from talks to acquire AI startup Decart for roughly $6 billion after conducting due diligence on the company, according to…
Collapse of Kenya’s academic ghostwriting industry
The New York Times has reported on the collapse of Kenya’s academic ghostwriting industry, which at its height supported more than 40,000 people in Nairobi…
OpenAI Chief Scientist Jakub Pachocki Says No Lab Has Solved Alignment Well Enough to Scale at Full Speed
OpenAI chief scientist Jakub Pachocki has said, publicly, that no lab has solved alignment to a degree that would justify scaling at maximum speed, and…
Anthropic Has Contracted at Least 14.8 GW of Compute and May Spend $517B Over the Next Decade
Valida Pau’s analysis in The Information puts numbers on how far Anthropic’s infrastructure commitments have run since October: agreements covering at least 14.8 GW of…
Inspur Is Routing Around US AI Chip Controls Through a Network of New Subsidiaries
The New York Times has laid out how Inspur, the state-owned server maker that has been on the US entity list since 2023, keeps getting…