Dutch AI inference chipmaker Axelera AI raises $250M
John Reynolds / tech - A Dutch chipmaker which designs and manufactures chips for AI inference use has raised more than $250m, with backing from new investor BlackRock.Innovation Industries, the European VC fund, is the lea...
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Anthropic accuses Chinese firms of distillation attacks
Tom Chivers / semafor - Distillation involves training less capable models on more advanced ones’ output.
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Tewke raises £1.5M to expand its AI-driven home energy platform
Kailee Rainse / startuprise - London-based Tewke, a company focused on energy optimisation and home automation, has raised £1.5 million in its second funding round. Investors in the round include JamJar Investments, Cur8 Capital, Energy Mix Ventures, Project Ventures, and angel invest…
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Brainomix Extends Series C Funding to $25.4M
FinSMEs / finsmes - Brainomix, an Oxford, UK-based company developing AI-powered imaging tools in stroke and lung fibrosis, raised $6.5M in Series Series C extension funding. The round was led by Parkwalk and Hostplus via the IP Group Hostplus Innovation Fund, with participa…
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AMD and Meta strike $100 billion AI deal that includes 10% stock deal — 6 gigawatt agreement includes up to 160 million AMD shares
tomshardware - AMD and Meta have announced an AI chips deal thought to be worth more than $100 billion.
- Analysts warn: circular financing and heavy dilution risks for AMD (3)
- Chips-for-equity: warrants could give Meta up to 10% (4)
- Meta diversifies from Nvidia; AMD emerges as key rival (2)
- Meta-AMD deal: 6GW MI450 deployment, shipments starting H2 2026 (7)
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Analysts warn: circular financing and heavy dilution risks for AMD
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Meta diversifies from Nvidia; AMD emerges as key rival
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SambaNova steps up its challenge to Nvidia with new chip, $350M funding and a powerful ally in Intel
Mike Wheatley / siliconangle - Chipmaker SambaNova Systems Inc. unveiled its most advanced artificial intelligence processor today as it closed on a bumper $350 million late-stage round of funding from Vista Equity Partners, Cambium Capital and others. Alongside the funding, SambaNova …
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Google launches Gemini 3.1 Pro, an LLM for complex reasoning
Erik van Klinken / techzine - This month, Anthropic already unveiled the Opus and Sonnet versions of Claude 4.6. It beat Google’s Gemini 3 Pro on several fronts. A response was not long in coming, with the new, more powerful Gemini 3.1 Pro. Google is rolling out 3.1 Pro starting today…
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LLM-Generated Passwords Look Strong but Crack in Hours, Researchers Find
msmash / slashdot - AI security firm Irregular has found that passwords generated by major large language models -- Claude, ChatGPT and Gemini -- appear complex but follow predictable patterns that make them crackable in hours, even on decades-old hardware. When researchers …
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Alphabet (GOOGL) Stock: Google Unveils Gemini 3.1 Pro With Double the Reasoning Power
Trader Edge / parameter - TLDR Google launched Gemini 3.1 Pro, an upgrade to its flagship AI model focused on complex reasoning tasks. The model scored 77.1% on the ARC-AGI-2 benchmark, more than double the score of Gemini 3 Pro. Gemini 3.1 Pro is available across Google AI Studio…
- Live: Gemini pressures rivals, boosts Google stock, rattles Apple (5)
- On site: Gemini 3.1 Pro doubles reasoning, tops benchmarks (11)
- Other: previews, hands-on reports, and odd hardware tie-ins (3)
- Reporter: Gemini spreads across apps, TV, API, enterprise (5)
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Live: Gemini pressures rivals, boosts Google stock, rattles Apple
On site: Gemini 3.1 Pro doubles reasoning, tops benchmarks
Other: previews, hands-on reports, and odd hardware tie-ins
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World Labs Raises $200M to Power 3D AI
Ekemini / ventureburn - World Labs, the artificial intelligence company co-founded by Fei-Fei Li, focused on developing spatial intelligence, announced a new milestone. A strategic investment of $200 million from Autodesk for World Labs’The post World Labs Raises $200M to Power …
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Selector Raises $32 Million To Advance AI Observability Platform
Clinton / ventureburn - Selector Accelerates Growth With New Capital Selector has raised $32 million to grow its AI observability platform. The round doubles its valuation to $375 million. AVP led the funding. AnsaThe post Selector Raises $32 Million To Advance AI Observability …
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Meta signs major Nvidia deal to power AI data centers with Blackwell and Rubin GPUs
techspot - According to separate press releases from Meta and Nvidia, the social media giant will use the chips to power its planned hyperscale data centers optimized for AI training and inference. The company will also deploy Nvidia's new Spectrum-X Ethernet switch…
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AI field operations startup FYLD lands €34 million for its London-based frontline intelligence platform
David Cendon Garcia / eu-startups - FYLD, an AI-powered frontline intelligence platform for the global infrastructure sector out of London, announced a €34 million ($41 million) Series B round to scale its platform delivering operational certainty for distributed, high-risk fieldwork in ene…
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Google I/O 2026 leans into AI, here’s what it means for you
digitaltrends - Google locked in I/O 2026 for May 19 to 20 and it’s already framing the event around Gemini and AI tooling. Here’s what’s confirmed, what’s missing, and how to plan what to watch.The post Google I/O 2026 leans into AI, here’s what it means for you appeare…
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Claude Sonnet 4.6 Launches With 1M Context Window, Opus-Level Coding Performance
iclarified - Anthropic has officially released Claude Sonnet 4.6, a major update to its AI model that reportedly outperforms its predecessor in coding and agentic tasks. The release brings significant upgrades to computer use capabilities and introduces a massive cont…
- Anthropic faces ethical, defense, and governance scrutiny over Claude (4)
- Community demos, explainers, and user projects around Claude (1)
- Sonnet 4.6: 1M‑token context and upgraded coding (7)
- Sonnet's $3 pricing threatens Opus-class models and competition (3)
Anthropic faces ethical, defense, and governance scrutiny over Claude
Community demos, explainers, and user projects around Claude
Sonnet 4.6: 1M‑token context and upgraded coding
Sonnet's $3 pricing threatens Opus-class models and competition
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Meta expands Nvidia deal to use millions of AI chips in data center build-out, including standalone CPUs
cnbc - Meta expands partnership with Nvidia in a deal likely worth tens of billions, for deploying millions of GPUs and new standalone CPUs in AI data centers
- Deal reshapes competition, boosts Nvidia, pressures chip rivals (6)
- Meta adopts Nvidia standalone CPUs for efficiency gains (4)
- Meta's multiyear pact to buy millions of Nvidia chips (7)
- Other: opinion pieces and unrelated Nvidia market stories (3)
Deal reshapes competition, boosts Nvidia, pressures chip rivals
Meta adopts Nvidia standalone CPUs for efficiency gains
Meta's multiyear pact to buy millions of Nvidia chips
Other: opinion pieces and unrelated Nvidia market stories
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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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AI field operations startup FYLD raises $41M to help build large-scale infrastructure
Kyt Dotson / siliconangle - FYLD Ltd., a London-based artificial intelligence-powered startup that assists infrastructure and utility fieldwork operators, today announced it has raised $41 million in a Series B funding to accelerate the delivery of large-scale infrastructure project…
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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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Pentagon Selects SpaceX for $100 Million Drone Swarming Competition
Trader Edge / parameter - TLDR SpaceX and xAI selected for Pentagon’s $100 million autonomous drone technology competition Six-month contest launched January 2026 to develop voice-command systems for multiple drones SpaceX acquired xAI before entering competition and ahead of plan…
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