NuScale Power Corporation, working in close collaboration with Oak Ridge National Laboratory, has released the results of a detailed techno-economic assessment that quietly pushes the small modular reactor conversation beyond grids and into the beating heart of heavy industry. The study looks at what actually happens when a NuScale Power Module is coupled directly to a real … [Read more...] about NuScale Power and Oak Ridge National Laboratory Push SMRs Into the Industrial Core
The unveiling of Intel® Core™ Ultra Series 3 processors marks the company’s first AI PC platform built on Intel’s own 18A process technology
At CES this year, Intel stepped onto the stage with something that feels less like a routine generational update and more like a statement of intent. The unveiling of Intel® Core™ Ultra Series 3 processors marks the company’s first AI PC platform built on Intel’s own 18A process technology, designed and manufactured in the United States, and that detail matters more than the … [Read more...] about The unveiling of Intel® Core™ Ultra Series 3 processors marks the company’s first AI PC platform built on Intel’s own 18A process technology
Qi2 Wireless Charging Momentum, CES 2026, Las Vegas
Wireless charging has been talking about convenience for years, but Qi2 finally feels like the moment where that promise stopped being theoretical and started showing up in everyday routines—on desks, bedside tables, cars, and increasingly on wrists. According to the Wireless Power Consortium, the pace of Qi2 adoption through 2025 wasn’t just healthy, it was aggressive in the … [Read more...] about Qi2 Wireless Charging Momentum, CES 2026, Las Vegas
Consumer Tech & Durable Goods Outlook: Flat Topline, Fragmented Opportunity
NielsenIQ’s newly released 2026 outlook for Consumer Tech & Durable Goods, developed in collaboration with the Consumer Technology Association, sketches a market that looks deceptively calm at first glance. After a solid 2025, with global sales finishing around $1.3 trillion and growing roughly 3% year over year, the industry is expected to flatten in 2026, edging down by about … [Read more...] about Consumer Tech & Durable Goods Outlook: Flat Topline, Fragmented Opportunity
Qualcomm Acquires Ventana Micro Systems: Why It Matters, What It Changes, and Why Arm Should Pay Attention
Qualcomm’s decision to acquire Ventana Micro Systems isn’t about chasing a buzzword or hedging a tiny bet on an alternative architecture; it’s a structural move that reveals how seriously the company is thinking about the post-Arm, post-licensing-friction future of CPUs. For years, Qualcomm has been one of Arm’s most important customers, building entire empires in mobile, … [Read more...] about Qualcomm Acquires Ventana Micro Systems: Why It Matters, What It Changes, and Why Arm Should Pay Attention
Scylos Secures $3M Seed Round to Rethink Endpoint Security from the Ground Up
Scylos has quietly stepped into a much louder conversation by closing a $3 million oversubscribed seed financing round, led by Galgano family investments with participation from a group of private investors. The size of the round matters less than the signal it sends. Endpoint security, long trapped in cycles of patching, monitoring, and post-breach clean-up, is starting to … [Read more...] about Scylos Secures $3M Seed Round to Rethink Endpoint Security from the Ground Up
Databricks has just closed a massive new funding round that pushes its valuation to roughly $134 billion
Databricks has just closed a massive new funding round that pushes its valuation to roughly $134 billion, instantly reinforcing its position as one of the most valuable private technology companies in the world. This wasn’t a symbolic top-up or a defensive raise either; it was a statement round, pulling in more than $4 billion from heavyweight investors who are clearly betting … [Read more...] about Databricks has just closed a massive new funding round that pushes its valuation to roughly $134 billion
Nu Quantum’s $60M Leap Toward the Entanglement Era
The news about Nu Quantum’s oversubscribed $60 million Series A feels like one of those inflection-point moments, the kind people later point back to and say, *that’s when distributed quantum computing stopped being a footnote and became the roadmap*. The announcement has this interesting mix of ambition and inevitability baked into it—almost like watching a technology that … [Read more...] about Nu Quantum’s $60M Leap Toward the Entanglement Era
Haven Energy Raises $40M to Scale Virtual Power Plants Across the U.S. Grid
Haven Energy just added real weight to the idea that the future of the American grid won’t be built only with steel towers and massive substations, but quietly, house by house. The energy tech company announced a $40 million raise combining an equity round led by Giant Ventures with a debt facility from Turtle Hill, joined by California Infrastructure Bank, Carnrite Ventures, … [Read more...] about Haven Energy Raises $40M to Scale Virtual Power Plants Across the U.S. Grid
Supermicro Expands NVIDIA Blackwell Portfolio with Liquid-Cooled HGX B300 Systems
Super Micro Computer, Inc. is clearly leaning into the reality of where large-scale AI infrastructure is heading, and this latest expansion of its NVIDIA Blackwell lineup feels less like a product refresh and more like a statement of intent. With the introduction and immediate shipment availability of new 2-OU OCP and 4U liquid-cooled NVIDIA HGX B300 systems, Supermicro is … [Read more...] about Supermicro Expands NVIDIA Blackwell Portfolio with Liquid-Cooled HGX B300 Systems