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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

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 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

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

A quiet but meaningful shift is happening in the semiconductor world, and today’s announcement from United Microelectronics Corporation (UMC) and imec feels like one of those milestones that will look even bigger in hindsight. UMC is licensing imec’s iSiPP300 silicon photonics process—built for 12-inch wafers and ready for co-packaged optics (CPO)—essentially giving UMC the … [Read more...] about UMC and imec Push Silicon Photonics Into Its Next Act

The debut of the Agentic BOM Engine almost feels like a long exhale from an industry that’s been quietly drowning in datasheets for decades. Hardware teams have always worked inside a maze of PDFs, half-remembered tribal knowledge, and isolated tools that rarely speak the same language. Wizerr steps straight into that chaos with something that, frankly, feels overdue: a … [Read more...] about Wizerr AI Unveils Agentic BOM Engine, Ushering Hardware Into Its Long-Awaited AI Era

ZincFive closed an oversubscribed $30M Series F to expand production of its zinc-based battery systems for mission-critical data centers. As AI workloads drive unprecedented demand for power density and uninterrupted uptime, next-generation battery technologies are becoming essential to stabilizing data center operations. ZincFive positions its technology as safer, more … [Read more...] about ZincFive Secures $30 Million to Support AI-Era Data Center Resilience

What stands out in this raise isn’t the number itself—$8.5 million is tidy but not flashy—it’s the signal. When Ferguson Ventures leads a round, it’s basically the industry’s quiet way of saying: enough with clipboards, text-message purchase orders, and the “did anyone reorder that?” chaos that still defines too many job sites. Ply slots right into that tension. The trades live … [Read more...] about Ply secures $8.5M to automate inventory for the trades, partners with Ferguson Ventures

LizzyAI just pulled in a fresh $5 million seed round, led by NEA with Speedinvest and Zero Prime Ventures joining in, and the timing feels spot-on for a hiring market that’s still tripping over its own inefficiencies. The money is heading straight into expanding engineering and go-to-market firepower, tightening integrations, and pushing its AI interview engine into deeper, … [Read more...] about LizzyAI Secures $5M to Rebuild the Interview From the Ground Up

Red Hat and Amazon Web Services (AWS) just tightened their partnership in a way that hints at where large-scale AI is actually heading, especially for companies that need stability, cost control, and flexibility rather than hype. The short version: Red Hat is making its AI platform fully compatible with AWS’s custom AI chips — Inferentia and Trainium — so enterprises can run … [Read more...] about When Open Source Meets Custom Silicon: Red Hat and AWS Shift the AI Infrastructure Game