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Quantum chipmaker IonQ to acquire fab operator SkyWater for $1.8B
1+ hour, 28+ min ago (541+ words) UPDATED 16:07 EST / JANUARY 26 2026 Quantum chip developer IonQ Inc. today announced plans to acquire SkyWater Technology Foundry Inc. for $1.8 billion. SkyWater was formed in 2017 from a former unit of Cypress Semiconductor Corp., an early memory manufacturer. One of its specialties is…...
Why metadata management now defines AI scale
3+ day, 18+ min ago (628+ words) UPDATED 17:17 EST / JANUARY 23 2026 Metadata management has become the practical dividing line between AI systems that scale and those that stall. "AI by itself is all about scaling. Here's how it goes," Van Haren explained. "Somebody comes up with an idea,…...
Unstructured data reshaping AI platforms
3+ day, 32+ min ago (607+ words) UPDATED 17:03 EST / JANUARY 23 2026 Unstructured data is now the constraint shaping how far artificial intelligence platforms can realistically scale. "One of the things that we hear from our enterprise customers is that it's critical to keep the GPUs busy," Beauvais said....
Intel's revival hits a bump in the road as its guidance falls short of expectations
3+ day, 22+ hour ago (461+ words) UPDATED 18:39 EST / JANUARY 22 2026 Shares of Intel Corp. nosedived in extended trading today after the company beat expectations in its fourth-quarter financial results but followed up with soft guidance for the current quarter. Earlier this month, Tan told media that the…...
Nutanix and the infrastructure shift driven by enterprise AI
4+ day, 1+ hour ago (828+ words) UPDATED 16:01 EST / JANUARY 22 2026 Nutanix Inc. sits at the crossroads of two powerful but conflicting trends: the push to the cloud and the pull back on-prem. The company that once sold boxes in racks now sells freedom " the promise to run…...
Upscale AI raises $200M to develop scale-up AI networking chips
4+ day, 23+ hour ago (554+ words) UPDATED 18:19 EST / JANUARY 21 2026 Upscale AI Inc., a developer of networking chips for artificial intelligence clusters, has raised $200 million in funding. The startup disclosed in its announcement of the round today that Tiger Global, Premji Invest and Xora Innovation were the…...
AheadComputing lands $30M to build RISC-V processors for AI data centers
5+ day, 8+ hour ago (490+ words) UPDATED 09:00 EST / JANUARY 21 2026 Eclipse, Toyota Ventures and Cambium co-led the Seed2 round, bringing the company's total funding to $53 million to date. Corner, Trousdale, EPIQ, MESH and Stata also participated in the round. AI is already becoming a major bellwether of compute…...
Modulate's Ensemble Listening Model breaks new ground in AI voice understanding
6+ day, 8+ hour ago (587+ words) UPDATED 09:00 EST / JANUARY 20 2026 A startup called Modulate Inc. wants to turn the world of conversational voice intelligence on its head after developing a novel artificial intelligence model architecture that it says far surpasses the capabilities of traditional large language models....
Meta to stop selling Quest headsets to businesses, discontinue multiple VR features
1+ week, 2+ day ago (528+ words) UPDATED 20:40 EST / JANUARY 16 2026 Meta Platforms Inc. will stop selling its Quest virtual reality headsets to business customers and discontinue a number of software services that run on the devices. The company announced the move on Thursday. The decision is not…...
AI chip unicorns Etched.ai and Cerebras Systems get big funding boost to target Nvidia
1+ week, 5+ day ago (496+ words) UPDATED 20:44 EST / JANUARY 13 2026 Nvidia Corp. has been in pole position in the artificial intelligence chip market for as long as the industry has existed, but it may want to keep an eye on the rear-view mirror as some of its…...