Blacksmith, a San Francisco startup that runs continuous integration workloads on purpose-built hardware, has raised a $45 million Series B led by Peak XV Partners at a $550 million valuation, the company announced on August 12, 2026. Existing investors Y Combinator and GV also participated, which co-founder and CEO Aditya “JP” Jayaprakash described as both…
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Ryanair, Europe’s largest airline, and Google Cloud announced a five-year partnership on August 12, 2026, under which the carrier will deploy Google Workspace and Google Cloud services to 35,000 employees and put Gemini Enterprise, Google’s agentic AI platform, to work on flight crew logistics, decision automation, and corporate productivity. The joint announcement frames the deal…
The National Institute of Standards and Technology is asking the public how to rebuild the National Vulnerability Database for an era of artificial intelligence, opening a 62-day comment window on August 12, 2026 that closes October 13, 2026 at 11:59 p.m. Eastern Time. The request for information published in the Federal Register seeks input on…
NVIDIA published a detailed case on August 12, 2026 for treating its AI factory compute as an investable infrastructure asset class, two days after signing memorandums of understanding with Apollo, BlackRock, Blackstone, Brookfield, Goldman Sachs and KKR to establish independent financing platforms designed to mobilize more than $500 billion of third-party capital for AI infrastructure….
OpenAI’s two cyber defense models are now available to eligible customers on Amazon Bedrock, AWS announced on August 11, 2026, one day after OpenAI expanded its Daybreak initiative with new access tiers and a purpose-trained security model. Daybreak Red and Daybreak Blue run in US East (N. Virginia), and access requires enrollment in OpenAI’s Trusted…
Quantinuum and Oracle announced a multi-year strategic partnership on August 11, 2026 that will install Quantinuum’s Helios quantum computer inside a US-based Oracle Cloud Infrastructure AI data center, making it available to OCI customers as a managed cloud service alongside the region’s GPU and high-performance computing capacity. Under the arrangement, Quantinuum’s announcement states, OCI customers…
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