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AI Data Center Startup Fluidstack in Talks for $1B Round at $18B Valuation Months After Hitting $7.5B, Says Report
Fluidstack is in talks to raise a $1 billion round that would value the AI‑focused data‑center startup at $18 billion, more than double its $7.5 billion valuation from months earlier. The company recently secured a $50 billion contract with Anthropic to build custom AI infrastructure in Texas and New York. Google is reportedly considering a $100 million contribution, while Fluidstack has moved its headquarters to New York and abandoned a €10 billion (≈$10.8 billion) French AI project to concentrate on U.S. opportunities.
Arm Is Releasing the First In-House Chip in Its 35-Year History
Arm Holdings announced its first internally designed processor, the Arm AGI CPU, aimed at AI inference workloads. The chip, built on the Neoverse IP and co‑engineered with Meta, is already available for order with Meta as the inaugural customer. Arm...
Mistral Bets on ‘Build-Your-Own AI’ as It Takes on OpenAI, Anthropic in the Enterprise
Mistral unveiled Forge, a platform that lets enterprises build and train custom AI models from scratch using their own data. Announced at Nvidia GTC, Forge differentiates itself by offering full model training rather than simple fine‑tuning or retrieval‑augmented generation. The...
Memories AI Is Building the Visual Memory Layer for Wearables and Robotics
Memories.ai announced a partnership with Nvidia to build a visual‑memory layer for AI wearables and robotics, using Nvidia's Cosmos‑Reason 2 and Metropolis tools. The startup launched its Large Visual Memory Model (LVMM) in July 2025, positioning it against Google’s Gemini Embedding 2. It...
Hyperscale Power Is the Latest Startup to Challenge 140-Year-Old Transformer Tech
The century‑old iron‑core transformer is being eclipsed by solid‑state alternatives as data‑center power needs surge. Startups in the space have collectively raised over $330 million, with Hyperscale Power securing a €5 million seed round to develop an ultra‑compact, high‑frequency transformer. Hyperscale claims...
How 1,000+ Customer Calls Shaped a Breakout Enterprise AI Startup
Narada, an enterprise AI startup founded by veteran entrepreneur David Park, built its product by conducting more than 1,000 customer calls to pinpoint workflow automation pain points. The team deliberately postponed fundraising, preferring bootstrapped growth to stay lean and avoid...
One Startup’s Pitch to Provide More Reliable AI Answers: Crowdsource the Chatbots
CollectivIQ, a Boston‑based spin‑out of Buyers Edge Platform, launched a multi‑model AI answer engine that queries up to ten large language models—including ChatGPT, Gemini, Claude, and Grok—simultaneously to deliver fused, more accurate responses for enterprises. The platform encrypts prompts and...
India Disrupts Access to Popular Developer Platform Supabase with Blocking Order
Supabase, an open‑source Firebase alternative, has been blocked in India after the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology invoked Section 69A of the IT Act. The order, issued on Feb 24, has resulted in intermittent access across major ISPs, leaving developers unable...
Trace Raises $3M to Solve the AI Agent Adoption Problem in Enterprise
Trace, a Boston-based workflow orchestration startup, announced a $3 million seed round led by Y Combinator and several venture firms. The company builds a knowledge graph from enterprise tools such as email, Slack and Airtable to give AI agents the contextual...
Jira’s Latest Update Allows AI Agents and Humans to Work Side by Side
Atlassian introduced “Agents in Jira,” allowing AI agents to be assigned, tracked, and managed alongside human users within the Jira dashboard. The feature, now in open beta, lets teams assign tickets to AI, set deadlines, and monitor progress with the...
New Relic Launches New AI Agent Platform and OpenTelemetry Tools
New Relic unveiled the Agentic Platform, a no‑code solution that lets enterprises build, deploy, and manage AI agents focused on observability outcomes. The platform supports the Model Context Protocol, enabling seamless connection to external data sources and integration with existing...
Nimble Raises $47M to Give AI Agents Access to Real-Time Web Data
Nimble announced a $47 million Series B round led by Norwest to scale its AI‑driven web‑search platform. The service uses autonomous agents to query the internet in real time, validates results, and outputs them as structured tables that can be queried like...
DG Matrix Raises $60M to Make Data Center Power Smarter
DG Matrix announced a $60 million Series A round to commercialize its solid‑state transformer platform, Interport. The device can route up to 2.4 MW from solar, batteries or the grid, replacing bulky legacy transformers and UPS systems. By consolidating power conversion into a...
The Enterprise AI Land Grab Is On. Glean Is Building the Layer Beneath the Interface.
Glean is repositioning from an enterprise search tool to the connective intelligence layer that sits between large language models and corporate data. By abstracting model access, deep‑integrating with SaaS applications, and enforcing permissions‑aware governance, it enables AI agents to act...
Hauler Hero Collects $16M for Its AI Waste Management Software
Hauler Hero announced a $16 million Series A round led by Frontier Growth, bringing its total venture funding above $27 million. The Boston‑based startup offers an all‑in‑one AI‑powered platform that manages CRM, billing, routing and now three AI agents for vision, chat and...
