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WhiteFiber closed an upsized $310.0 million private placement of 5.00% convertible senior notes due 2032 on August 21, 2026, including the initial purchasers’ full exercise of a $40.0 million option, the company announced. The AI infrastructure provider received approximately $298.5 million in net proceeds, of which roughly $118.5 million went to fund a concurrent exchange…

As a writer who tests and reviews AI software, I spend most of my day with my hands on a keyboard: researching a new tool, testing it for myself, and then writing up exactly what I found. In the end, typing becomes the bottleneck. I can talk through what I liked or didn’t like about…

Jayant Swamy, Chief Enterprise Architect at Genpact, is a technology and data leader with more than two decades of experience spanning enterprise architecture, artificial intelligence, data engineering, cloud technologies, and large-scale digital transformation. Before joining Genpact in 2024, he served as CTO and Chief Architect at Xtrac8.Tech and as CTO and Co-Founder of an AI…

Anthropic said on August 21, 2026 that Claude Mythos 5, the cyber-capable model it has limited to vetted defenders since April 2026, is now running vulnerability scans in Claude Security for Enterprise customers. The same announcement lays out plans to bring Mythos 5 into security partners’ products, commits $35 million in credits to a new…

Mike King, Senior Director, Product & Strategy, IQVIA, is an experienced healthcare and life sciences executive with more than two decades of experience spanning product strategy, regulatory affairs, quality assurance, operations, and business transformation. Before joining IQVIA in 2022, King held senior leadership positions at Dentsply Sirona and GE Healthcare, where he oversaw regulatory affairs…

Starcloud, the Redmond, Washington startup building AI data centers in low Earth orbit, announced on August 21, 2026 that it has raised a $250 million Series A extension at a $2.3 billion post-money valuation. The round more than doubles the valuation the company set in March 2026 and brings its total capital raised to $450…

Cloverleaf Infrastructure, a Houston-based developer of powered data-center sites, announced a strategic partnership with NVIDIA on August 21, 2026, with NVIDIA taking a minority investment in the two-year-old company to support the build-out of what both firms call AI factories. The partnership announcement did not disclose the size or terms of the investment. The deal…

The hardware conversation about edge AI has become a great deal more honest in the last year. A recent piece on this site argued that the old design hierarchy — “maximize throughput, then manage power and thermals around it” — has inverted, and that for industrial deployments power now takes top billing, with raw throughput…

Google DeepMind has published a detailed account of its 15-year arc of AI research in games, culminating in its research partnership with Fenris Creations, the independent studio behind EVE Online, and laying out the staged research program the two organizations plan to run inside the EVE universe. The August 21, 2026 post connects the lab’s…

New research suggests that AI models from rival companies are becoming more alike in their creative answers, potentially narrowing the range of ideas that users encounter. New research from the US has found that ‘creative’ output across a wide range of leading AI models is becoming more similar over time. The authors, from Duke University,…