
Nscale lands $3.36 billion convertible financing before planned U.S. IPO
Nscale raised $3.36B in convertible financing before its U.S. IPO, underscoring the huge cost of AI infrastructure buildouts.
Innovations in NVIDIA’s AI hardware and software for various applications.

Nscale raised $3.36B in convertible financing before its U.S. IPO, underscoring the huge cost of AI infrastructure buildouts.

Ricursive Intelligence is betting on AI chip design to cut hardware development from years to weeks, backed by $335 million in fresh funding.

Jensen Huang’s AI climate comments spark backlash as critics argue data centers and fossil fuels could worsen pollution before cleaner power arrives.

Google is launching an AI satellite to test TPU hardware in orbit, a key step toward its Project Suncatcher space-compute vision.

Meta Connect 2026 spotlights AI glasses, privacy fixes and possible new mixed-reality hardware as Zuckerberg tries to sell the next computing platform.

U.S. and China are negotiating an AI hotline to warn of security risks, but officials say the AI hotline agreement is still weeks away.

Andreessen Horowitz is launching an AI academy in San Francisco with partners like Google, Meta and OpenAI, backed by $42 million.

TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 spotlights AI safety with sessions on agents, enterprise deployment, robotics, and autonomous systems.

AstroForge is putting AI spacecraft control to the test with Solo, its autonomous system for deep-space missions and asteroid ambitions.

Nscale’s AI IPO could test Wall Street’s appetite for concentrated customer risk, huge contracts and heavy losses in the AI buildout.