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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,…

An engineer opens Copilot to help draft code for a client’s site. Within seconds, they receive code that would’ve previously taken significantly longer to write manually. For many web developers and businesses optimizing their websites, it’s normal to wonder: is that code reliable? Is it secure? Should it be reviewed before implementation? These questions all…

I have spent 25 years on the buyer’s side of security operations, and I have never once lost sleep over a firewall rule. However, I have lost sleep over AI. Traditional automation, no matter how complex, follows logic you can trace. However, in this unprecedented scale of agentic AI, systems are being trusted to make…

AI can generate a use-case outline in under a minute, turn a simple idea into a basic prototype within an hour and produce requirements documentation in a fraction of the time it once took. This shift is already visible in day-to-day business analysis, with practitioners using AI to prepare elicitation sessions, draft requirements and identify…

Most technology leaders no longer need convincing that AI can create value. Their challenge is turning dozens of successful experiments into an enterprise capability. That transition is often harder than expected. AI adoption has outpaced AI strategy as individual teams rapidly deployed copilots, tested new models, and embedded AI into their workflows. The result is…

OpenAI is growing faster than Anthropic among U.S. businesses so far this quarter, according to new Ramp spending data posted August 20, 2026 by the expense-management company’s lead economist, Ara Kharazian, marking the first signs of a reversal since Anthropic took the lead in corporate AI spending three months ago. The numbers come from the…