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There’s a moment every so often in tech where you can almost feel the ground shifting beneath the industry, and Profluent’s newly announced $106 million financing round has that sort of energy. The funding was co-led by Altimeter Capital and Bezos Expeditions, with continued backing from Spark Capital, Insight Partners, and Air Street Capital. With this round, Profluent now … [Read more...] about Profluent’s $106 Million Raise Marks a Turning Point for Programmable Biology

Something about today’s announcement from Cloudera feels like the moment the market finally stops pretending that scattered data strategies are sustainable. The company rolled out a major platform update at EVOLVE25 in Dubai, weaving together Trino federation, SDX governance, and Octopai Data Lineage into a single architecture meant to solve a problem everyone acknowledges but … [Read more...] about Cloudera EVOLVE25: Unified AI Data Access Takes Center Stage in Dubai

Over the past few months, eleven Korean startups have been doing exactly that through the 2025 Korea IT Cooperation Center (KICC) ICT Growth Program—a government-backed initiative designed to help promising innovators enter the fast-growing ASEAN and Oceania region. Supported by the Ministry of Science and ICT, NIPA, and managed by KICC in Singapore together with Plug and Play, … [Read more...] about A New Wave of Korean Innovation Heads Toward ASEAN and Oceania

It feels like the insurance industry has finally hit its acceleration moment. Federato — the company that keeps describing itself as *AI-native* rather than just "AI-powered" — has closed a fresh $100 million Series D round. The raise was led by Growth Equity at Goldman Sachs Alternatives, with existing believers Emergence Capital, Caffeinated Capital, StepStone Group, and Pear … [Read more...] about Federato Secures $100M to Rewrite the Future of Insurance in the Age of AI

Cloud spending is accelerating fast, moving toward a trillion-dollar annual market. That growth comes not only from new workloads but from the shift in how infrastructure is created — any engineer can now deploy resources instantly, often without knowing the financial impact. Infracost was built to address that gap, and the company has now raised a $15 million Series A round to … [Read more...] about Infracost Raises $15M to Bring Real-Time Cloud Cost Visibility Directly Into Developer Workflows

Every now and then my Samsung A12 throws a tiny digital tantrum, flashing a moisture alert and refusing to charge like it’s just been rescued from a shipwreck. The funny part is: it hasn’t. No rain, no sink, no rogue cup of tea. Nothing. And yet there it is — Moisture detected. Charging blocked. A message with the emotional tone of a lifeguard whistle. The truly bizarre … [Read more...] about When Your Phone Thinks It’s Drowning: The Curious Case of the Samsung A12 Moisture Warning

There was something quietly electrifying about watching the Carlsberg Museum slip from its usual calm into a pulsing hub of video technologists, AI researchers, platform architects, and a whole crowd of developers who looked like they were genuinely hungry for the future. The place has an odd gravity to it, partly because of its scientific heritage — this is where the pH scale … [Read more...] about Milestone Developer Summit 2025, November 2025, Copenhagen

There’s something strangely captivating about watching a giant like Palantir toss a rhetorical grenade into the polite world of higher education and then calmly invite teenagers to apply for the fallout. Their second round of applications for what they’re now confidently calling an *anti-college internship* landed this week, and it feels less like a hiring announcement and more … [Read more...] about Palantir’s Anti-College Internship: Why Silicon Valley Is Rewriting the Rules of Talent

There’s an interesting shift happening in how ideas move from the spark of invention to real, defensible intellectual property, and the announcement that Tradespace has acquired Paragon hints at how quickly that shift is accelerating. The basic problem has been obvious to anyone who has ever filed a patent: innovation cycles move fast, but patent drafting remains slow, … [Read more...] about Tradespace Acquires Paragon: The Next Step Toward AI-Native Intellectual Property

There’s a particular tension right now in high-performance computing circles, the kind that feels a bit like everyone is standing in the same checkout line waiting for the same brand of GPU to be restocked. NVIDIA’s CUDA ecosystem has been the golden gatekeeper to AI compute for more than a decade, shaping not just performance expectations but entire supply chains. Companies … [Read more...] about Breaking the CUDA Barrier: Spectral Compute Raises $6M to Let AI Run Anywhere