Category Compute

DeepMind Alumni Turn Poker AI Into a $500 Million Trading Bet

DeepMind alumni EquiLibre raised a Series A at a $500 million valuation, using reinforcement learning to trade equities and crypto.

Wayve launches an $85 million employee tender offer at an $8.5 billion valuation as it expands toward Uber pilots and Nissan plans.

Proception settles a Tesla trade secret suit, raises $11 million and starts shipping its robot hand to researchers and robotics firms.

South Korea unveils a $900B AI infrastructure push, with Samsung and SK Hynix leading new memory fabs, HBM packaging and data centers.

Omen AI raises $31 million to monitor data center cooling fluid in real time and reduce downtime as AI infrastructure expands.

AI memory demand has sent Micron soaring as Wall Street bets the chipmaker can become the next Nvidia-like winner.

Ford says its AI quality push fell short, so it rehired 350 veteran engineers to catch defects earlier and improve quality.

OpenAI chip plans with Broadcom show Big Tech is moving to custom silicon to cut costs and reduce reliance on Nvidia.

AI model approvals are becoming a key bottleneck as the U.S. government tightens scrutiny of frontier releases from OpenAI and Anthropic.

Europe’s AI sovereignty drive is accelerating as Trump-era policy shocks expose the risks of relying on American models and infrastructure.