Render Raises $100 Million to Build Cloud Tech for AI Agents
PYMNTS / pymnts - Cloud technology company Render has raised $100 million in new funding. The firm’s Series C extension, announced Tuesday (Feb. 17), values Render at $1.5 billion and will help it build cloud runtime for artificial intelligence (AI) agents and applications…
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Mistral AI secures its first acquisition with Koyeb
Erik van Klinken / techzine - French AI company Mistral AI announced its first acquisition today. The company will purchase serverless cloud provider Koyeb, also from France, aiming to enhance its compute infrastructure and support its growing portfolio of AI services. Mistral AI has …
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Western Digital is Sold Out of Hard Drives for 2026
msmash / slashdot - Western Digital's entire hard drive manufacturing capacity for calendar year 2026 is now fully spoken for, CEO Irving Tan disclosed during the company's second-quarter earnings call, a stark sign of how aggressively hyperscalers are locking down storage s…
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AWS is down: February 16 outage explained
Kerem Gülen / dataconomy - Amazon Web Services (AWS) is experiencing a sudden spike in technical issues, causing widespread disruptions across various digital platforms on February 16, 2026. According to Downdetector data, reports began to climb sharply at 4.46 PM, with nearly 100 …
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Intel Unveils Annual GPU Cadence For Xeon & Client Segments: Xe3P In 2026, Xe-Next In 2027
Hassan Mujtaba / wccftech - Intel has reaffirmed its annual GPU cadence, which will see yearly roadmap and product updates on the client and data center segments. Intel Xe3P GPUs Coming This Year, Followed By Xe Next In 2027 As Part of Annual Client & Xeon Cadence Intel's GPU roadma…
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AI Cloud Infra Startup Neysa To Raise $1.2 Bn In Blackstone-Led Round
Anjali Jain / inc42 - AI cloud infrastructure startup Neysa has entered into a definitive agreement with US-based Blackstone for a $600 Mn (about ₹5,443…
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Semiconductor Startup C2i Raises $15 Mn From Peak XV, Others
Anne Florentyna / inc42 - Semiconductor startup C2i Semiconductors has raised $15 Mn (around ₹136 Cr) in its Series A funding round led by Peak…
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Cisco builds its own VMware hypervisor alternative, release imminent
Erik van Klinken / techzine - Cisco is introducing a hypervisor for running its own applications. NFVIS-for-UC is intended to offer an alternative for organizations that are virtualizing their telephone systems but do not want to purchase the expensive VMware Cloud Foundation. For yea…
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First PCIe 6.0 SSD enters mass production with 28GB/s speeds, 5.5 million IOPS, and liquid cooling — Micron 9650 Series SSDs support air and liquid cooling
tomshardware - Micron is the first SSD maker to introduce the world's first mass-produced PCIe 6.0 datacenter SSD. The Micron 9650 series is capable of speeds of up to 28 GB/s.
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(LEAD) Samsung Electronics starts world's first commercial shipment of HBM4
Kang Yoon-seung / co - SEOUL, Feb. 12 (Yonhap) -- Samsung Electronics Co. said Thursday it has begun th...
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Anthropic promises its datacenters totally won't drive up your utility bill
Tobias Mann / theregister - Compute it leases from Amazon, MIcrosoft, and Google... that's another story Model-maker and SaaS-y AI outfit Anthropic has committed to covering any increases in energy prices paid by consumers caused by its power-hungry datacenters.…
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Sweden-Based Vesiro Raises €1.6M Funding
Kailee Rainse / startuprise - Gothenburg-based Vesiro, a spinout from Chalmers University, has secured €1.6 million in seed funding. The round was supported by Chalmers Ventures, Industrifonden, Länsförsäkringar Göteborg & Bohuslän, Yuncture, First Gate Invest, E14 Invest, Mach One, a…
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New York lawmakers introduce bill that aims to halt data center development for three years
Cheyenne MacDonald / engadget - On Friday, New York State Senators Liz Krueger and Kristen Gonzales introduced a bill that would stop the issuance of permits for new data centers for at least three years and ninety days to give time for impact assessments and to update regulations. The …
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Elon Musk is getting serious about orbital data centers
Russell Brandom / techcrunch - We’re starting to see the idea of Musk-owned orbital AI data clusters cohere into an actual plan.
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Amazon Revenues Up 14 Percent to $213.4 Billion
Paul Thurrott / thurrott - Amazon reported that it earned a net income of $21.2 billion on revenues of $213.4 billion in the quarter ending December 31, 2025.The post Amazon Revenues Up 14 Percent to $213.4 Billion appeared first on Thurrott.com.
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Google adds $55bn to capex plans as it boosts AI spending
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Positron AI raises $230M at over $1B valuation to build energy-efficient AI accelerator hardware
Kyt Dotson / siliconangle - Positron AI, a builder of custom silicon and hardware for energy-efficient artificial intelligence inference, today announced it has raised an oversubscribed $230 million funding round at a $1 billion valuation. The Series B round was co-led by Arena Priv…
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CNBC: "Intel is moving into GPUs and has hired a chief [GPU] architect, CEO Lip-Bu Tan says"
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Elon Musk is merging SpaceX and xAI to build data centers in space — or so he says
Andrew J. Hawkins / theverge - On Monday, Elon Musk announced that he was merging two of his companies, SpaceX and xAI, in a deal said to be worth $1.25 trillion. The reason, Musk said in an announcement, was that in order for AI to grow, it needed to go to space. AI relies on "large t…
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Intel and SoftBank Subsidiary Saimemory Partner on Next-Gen Z-Angle Memory
techpowerup - Intel and SoftBank subsidiary Saimemory have signed an agreement to work together on developing and selling Z-Angle Memory (ZAM) technology aimed at AI and high-performance computing tasks. ZAM is described as a stacked DRAM architecture designed to go be…
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