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Global technology spending is heading into 2026 with a confidence that feels earned rather than speculative, as Forrester projects worldwide tech outlays to grow by 7.8 percent year over year, reaching roughly $5.6 trillion compared to $5.2 trillion in 2025. That pace holds even as US tariffs continue to distort trade flows and cost structures, which is notable in itself. … [Read more...] about Forrester Sees Global Tech Spending Hitting $5.6 Trillion in 2026 as AI Drives Growth Despite Tariffs

Chiplets are small, specialized pieces of a semiconductor chip that are designed separately and then assembled together inside a single package to function as one complete processor. Instead of building one huge, monolithic chip where everything lives on a single slab of silicon, engineers break the design into multiple dies, each optimized for a specific task like compute … [Read more...] about Chiplets Explained: How Modern Chips Are Really Built

Today’s news cycle feels like one of those hinge days that only look chaotic until you step back and notice the pattern quietly forming. At the center of it all sits the uneasy recalibration of the AI economy, with Nvidia and OpenAI providing the clearest signal yet that the era of limitless, unquestioned AI spending is starting to meet internal resistance. Reports that … [Read more...] about January 31, 2026 — Tech & Markets Day Digest

DealHub’s $100 million growth round, led by Riverwood Capital, feels less like a routine funding announcement and more like a directional signal for the entire revenue tech market. This isn’t just capital to scale sales or expand globally; it’s a bet on a new category taking shape, one where revenue systems stop behaving like passive databases and start acting like intelligent … [Read more...] about DealHub Raises $100M to Redefine Enterprise Quote-to-Revenue

Preply just crossed the line that quietly separates fast-growing startups from category-defining companies, closing a $150 million Series D round that values the global language learning marketplace at $1.2 billion. The round was led by WestCap, a firm known for scaling marketplaces like Airbnb and StubHub, with Goldman Sachs International acting as sole placement agent, and it … [Read more...] about Preply Reaches $1.2B Valuation After $150M Series D to Scale Human-Led, AI-Enhanced Language Learning

Datarails just crossed a line that matters, not because of the number itself, but because of what the money is clearly meant to accelerate. The Excel-native finance platform has raised $70 million in Series C funding, bringing total funding to $175 million, and the message is unambiguous: this is no longer an FP&A tool trying to grow up, it’s a full operating system for the … [Read more...] about Datarails Raises $70M Series C to Turn the CFO’s Office into an AI-Native Nerve Center

A quiet but fundamental shift is happening in how businesses get created, and Emergent’s latest funding round is a loud signal that investors finally see it too. The fast-growing AI software creation platform has raised $70 million in Series B funding led by Khosla Ventures and SoftBank Vision Fund 2, with participation from Prosus, Lightspeed, Together, and Y Combinator, … [Read more...] about Emergent Raises $70M Series B as AI Turns Software Creation Into an Entrepreneurial Commodity

Fujifilm’s latest long-range camera, the SX400, feels like a quiet but deliberate shift in how industrial imaging is being positioned, less as fixed infrastructure and more as something that can move, adapt, and be deployed almost on demand. This is a lens-integrated camera, yes, but the emphasis here isn’t just integration for the sake of neat engineering; it’s about reducing … [Read more...] about Fujifilm Introducing SX400: A Long-Range Camera Designed for the Real World

D-Wave Quantum Inc. has just crossed a line the rest of the quantum industry has been talking about for years but not quite reaching: it now officially operates two fundamentally different quantum computing platforms under one roof. With the completed acquisition of Quantum Circuits Inc., D-Wave is no longer only the company that commercialized quantum annealing—it is now … [Read more...] about D-Wave Becomes the First Dual-Platform Quantum Computing Company After Quantum Circuits Acquisition

A fresh wave of capital is flowing into the cloud storage layer that quietly underpins everything from generative AI experiments to global media pipelines, and this time the spotlight lands squarely on Wasabi Technologies. The Boston-based company has announced a $70 million equity funding round led by L2 Point Management, with strategic participation from Pure Storage and … [Read more...] about Wasabi Technologies Secures $70M to Fuel the Next Phase of AI-Ready Cloud Storage