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Etched raises $300M at a $10.3B valuation on a bet that transformer-only chips will displace Nvidia at the inference layer
1+ day, 1+ min ago (249+ words) Etched, founded by three Harvard dropouts, closed a $300M Series C at a $10.3B valuation on July 23, led by Sequoia in what the firm calls its highest-valued Series C ever. The company's Sohu ASIC hardcodes the transformer architecture into silicon, claiming a…...
Verizon signs a billion-dollar dark fiber deal with Google and says several billion more are coming
1+ day, 12+ hour ago (320+ words) Verizon CEO Dan Schulman disclosed a $1 billion-plus dark fiber deal with Google on today's Q2 2026 earnings call, supplying fiber-optic infrastructure connecting Google's data centers. Schulman also signaled additional deals before year-end worth multiple billions more, positioning Verizon's existing fiber network as…...
Etched is raising at $10 billion and $20 billion simultaneously and investors are lined up
2+ day, 19+ hour ago (198+ words) Etched, the transformer-specific AI chip startup founded by Harvard dropouts in 2022, is raising simultaneously at a $10.3 billion Sequoia-led valuation and in talks with Jane Street at $20 billion, just weeks after emerging from stealth with $800 million raised and $1 billion in signed…...
Omen AI raises $31M to detect the bacterial threat quietly killing GPU clusters
4+ day, 22+ min ago (452+ words) Omen AI, founded by 21-year-old high school dropout Zach Laberge, raised a $31M Series A led by Nava Ventures to deploy real-time spectrometry sensors inside liquid-cooled GPU racks. The sensors monitor coolant for bacterial contamination across 21 chemical signatures, replacing slow lab…...
Nvidia Confirms Vera Rubin Is Shipping but Not the $630 Billion Number
4+ day, 15+ hour ago (228+ words) Nvidia's Vera Rubin ramp is real. The $630 billion quarterly revenue claim attached to it isn't. Here's what's confirmed. Nvidia said on May 31 that Vera Rubin was ramping into full production, and on July 21 the company went further, saying Vera Rubin…...
Microsoft Commits Billions More to Mistral's European GPU Buildout
4+ day, 21+ hour ago (204+ words) Microsoft and Mistral AI expanded their partnership with a new multibillion-dollar European GPU commitment built around Nvidia's Vera Rubin chips, deepening Azure's hold on the French lab without adding a new equity stake. The deal raises fresh questions about what…...
Kimi K3 Got So Popular It Ran Out Of GPUs For New Subscribers
6+ day, 15+ hour ago (285+ words) Startup Fortune Moonshot AI just proved that even a hit AI model backed by a fresh multibillion dollar valuation can run into a wall it didn't build: not enough GPUs Kimi K3 subscriptions are paused "Kimi K3 has received far more love…...
Upper90 Lends $400 Million Against AI Inference Chips Instead of Nvidia GPUs
1+ week, 1+ day ago (320+ words) Upper90 has extended a $400 million credit facility to AI infrastructure startup General Compute, secured by SambaNova inference chips rather than Nvidia GPUs. It's a bet that the financing model Upper90 used to help build CoreWeave can work again with a different kind…...
What Is an AI PC and Do You Actually Need One in 2026
1+ week, 4+ day ago (122+ words) Every laptop ad now screams AI PC, but the honest answer is that most people buying a new machine this year still won't notice the difference. That's the honest use case for the chip today: on-device transcription, background blur, image…...
GMI Cloud seeks $635 million loan backed by its Nvidia GPU contracts
1+ week, 4+ day ago (322+ words) Startup Fortune GMI Cloud wants Taiwan's banks to lend it $635 million against the GPU contracts it already has signed, not against new stock That's the deal now moving through the island's syndication market Nvidia cloud partner GMI Cloud is seeking…...