Seattle-based data security company MIND announced on September 17, 2026 that it has raised $72M in Series B funding. Crosspoint Capital Partners led the round, with participation from existing investors YL Ventures and Paladin Capital Group, and the new capital brings MIND’s total funding to $112M. The raise comes roughly a year after MIND’s $30M…
AXG and Digital Realty on September 17, 2026, announced a partnership that enables global system integrators (GSIs) and managed service providers (MSPs) to deliver fully hosted, lifecycle-managed private infrastructure as a service, with the joint offering available at launch across 31 markets in more than 30 countries spanning North America, EMEA, APAC, and Latin America….
In the last few years, the conversation around AI has accelerated. Each week brings a new AI tool to the scene, along with promises about how it will change the way we work and live. Consumer AI tools like chatbots and copilots continue to dominate the conversation. But the economic impact of many consumer AI…
CleanSpark said in an offering announcement on September 17, 2026 that its wholly owned subsidiary, CSDC Finance I, LLC, intends to offer $2.227 billion in aggregate principal amount of senior secured notes due 2031 in a private offering, with net proceeds intended to fund the remaining build-out of the company’s Sandersville, Georgia, data center. CleanSpark,…
Healthcare has long evaluated AI through familiar operational metrics: hours saved, calls deflected, documentation completed, and costs reduced. Those numbers matter. They show whether technology is creating capacity in organizations facing persistent workforce shortages, rising expenses, and growing patient demand. In my career, however, I’ve learned that those metrics answer only part of the question….
Tower Semiconductor and NewPhotonics have begun high-volume shipments of laser-integrated, serviceable optical engine photonic integrated circuits for scale-out and scale-up AI interconnect, the companies said in a joint announcement on September 17, 2026, with volume-production PICs supporting data rates from 800G to 1.6T. Datelined Migdal HaEmek and Tel Aviv, Israel, the announcement said the optical…
Z.ai on September 17, 2026 published a technical account describing how it built a complete production-grade inference service for its GLM-5.3-Flash model from scratch on a cluster of more than 100,000 Chinese-made AI accelerators. According to the company, much of the work was carried out by an Infra Agent powered by GLM-5.3 rather than by…
The U.S. House passed the Ratepayer Protection Act on September 16, 2026, voting 417 to 3 to require state utility regulators to consider standards that make large data center customers pay the full cost of the grid upgrades built to serve them. House Energy and Commerce Chairman Brett Guthrie of Kentucky, Subcommittee on Energy Chairman…
OpenAI published a framework for tracking, investigating, and disclosing instances of model misalignment on September 16, 2026, alongside six reports on unexpected or concerning behavior the company said it observed during the training or evaluation of its models. OpenAI said its past misalignment disclosures were ad hoc: it often waited to collate several instances into…
xAI on September 16, 2026 announced cross-session memory for Grok Build, its terminal coding agent, a feature that records conventions, decisions, and project facts as markdown notes in the background and reads them back in later sessions. Memory is available in Grok Build now and applies to new sessions. xAI says the agent keeps notes…