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Taalas raises $169M in funding to develop model-specific AI chips
1+ hour, 32+ min ago (447+ words) UPDATED 20:22 EST / FEBRUARY 19 2026 Taalas Inc., a startup that develops chips optimized to run specific artificial intelligence models, has raised $169 million in funding. Reuters reported today that the company's backers include Quiet Capital, Fidelity and prominent semiconductor investor Pierre Lamond. The…...
Freeform reels in $67M for its 3D metal printing system
5+ hour, 39+ min ago (630+ words) UPDATED 16:15 EST / FEBRUARY 19 2026 Freeform Future Corp., a startup using custom 3D printers to make metal parts, has raised $67 million in funding. The company stated in its announcement of the deal today that Nvidia Corp.s NVentures and Boeing Co.s AE…...
ChEmpower debuts polishing technology to advance semiconductor manufacturing process
1+ week, 1+ day ago (505+ words) UPDATED 10:00 EST / FEBRUARY 11 2026 ChEmpower Corp., a semiconductor materials company that develops polishing pads and chemical solutions, today announced Chakra, its first product designed to improve efficiency, reduce costs and promote sustainability in the chipmaking process. As semiconductors are etched and…...
Cadence announces ChipStack ‘Super Agent’ system for chip design and verification
1+ week, 2+ day ago (620+ words) UPDATED 09:00 EST / FEBRUARY 10 2026 Integrated circuit and electronic hardware design company Cadence Design Systems Inc. today announced the release of an artificial intelligence "Super Agent" designed to transform front-end silicon design and verification. The company said Cadence ChipStack AI Super Agent…...
Cisco targets high-speed AI networking with 102.4Tbps chip, liquid-cooled switches
1+ week, 2+ day ago (948+ words) UPDATED 03:30 EST / FEBRUARY 10 2026 Cisco Systems Inc. today introduced a new generation of networking silicon, systems and optical modules aimed at supporting hyperscale-class artificial intelligence infrastructure as AI workloads shift from model training toward broader inference and agentic applications. Cisco framed…...
Startup aiOla strives to fix AI speech recognition woes with dynamic routing
1+ week, 3+ day ago (332+ words) UPDATED 08:00 EST / FEBRUARY 09 2026 Artificial intelligence startup aiOla says it's breaking new ground in its quest to develop machines that can understand human speech as well as people can. Today it has announced a new "Speech Intelligence Gateway" that's able to…...
AI agents could crush enterprise infrastructure, says Cockroach Labs CEO
1+ week, 6+ day ago (772+ words) UPDATED 10:30 EST / FEBRUARY 06 2026 They have good reason, according to Spencer Kimball, chief executive of Cockroach Labs Inc., maker of a distributed SQL database highly regarded for its high availability and resilience.The company's recent survey of 1,125 cloud architects and technology…...
Cerebras raises $1B more for its wafer-size AI chip
2+ week, 1+ day ago (490+ words) UPDATED 18:24 EST / FEBRUARY 04 2026 Four months after closing a $1.1 billion funding round, chip startup Cerebras Systems Inc. today announced that it has raised an additional $1 billion from many of the same investors. Tiger Global led the Series H deal. It was…...
Western Digital outlines new HDD capacity, performance and power gains for AI workloads
2+ week, 2+ day ago (325+ words) UPDATED 09:30 EST / FEBRUARY 03 2026 Western Digital Corp. today unveiled a new customer-centric storage roadmap that it says reinvents the hard drive for artificial intelligence needs and reinforces its position as a strategic storage infrastructure partner for the AI-driven data economy. WD…...
MIND launches DLP for Agentic AI to secure data used by autonomous systems
3+ week, 1+ day ago (414+ words) UPDATED 06:00 EST / JANUARY 28 2026 Data loss protection company MIND Security Inc. today announced the launch of DLP for Agentic AI, a data-centric approach to artificial intelligence security that helps organizations safely achieve the business value of agentic AI by ensuring sensitive…...