SoftBank is looking forward to building a $60 billion - $70 billion AI data center spanning multiple phases in Ohio.

It’s Thursday, March 19, 2026, and we’re back with today’s top startup and tech funding news. Today’s rounds spotlight investor urgency around AI agent infrastructure, privacy-first digital ecosystems, and the physical systems supporting electrification and compute scaling. From coding security […]

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Jeff Bezos is back—and this time, he’s aiming straight at the factory floor. The Amazon founder is in early discussions to raise a staggering $100 billion for a new AI-focused fund that would acquire manufacturing companies and push them toward […]

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Less than two years after coming out of stealth, Oasis Security is pulling in another massive round—this time as AI agents quietly reshape the rules of cybersecurity. The New York– and Tel Aviv–based cybersecurity startup has raised $120 million in […]

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Less than a month since its launch, OpenClaw has exploded in popularity as autonomous AI agents move from hype to real-world power. Now its wave is sweeping across China—driving unexpected demand in the hardware market. Across Beijing, Shenzhen, and beyond, […]

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It’s Wednesday, March 18, 2026, and we’re back with today’s top startup and tech funding news. Today’s rounds highlight growing investor urgency around autonomous cybersecurity, cancer immunotherapy, and AI observability for agent-based systems. As AI-native infrastructure becomes critical to sectors […]

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Meta just pulled the plug on its metaverse dream, drawing a line under one of the most ambitious bets in tech history. The company said Tuesday it will shut down Horizon Worlds, the virtual reality social platform once positioned at […]

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A new wave of AI startups is taking shape, and Mirendil is stepping into it with serious ambition—and serious backing. Founded by former Anthropic researchers, the San Francisco-based startup is already in talks to raise $175 million at a $1 […]

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Dell just made one thing clear: the AI boom is not saving jobs—it’s reshaping them. In its latest annual filing, the company confirmed it cut about 11,000 employees in fiscal 2026, trimming roughly 10% of its workforce. The move came with […]

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Meta is moving its AI ambitions a step closer to your personal machine. The company’s newly acquired startup Manus has released a desktop application that puts its general-purpose AI agent directly on users’ laptops. Until now, Manus lived in the cloud, […]

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The AI alliance that helped power Microsoft’s rise is now at risk of unraveling. Microsoft is weighing legal action against OpenAI over a $50 billion cloud agreement with Amazon—a deal that could redraw the balance of power in the infrastructure behind […]

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Nvidia's networking business raked in $11 billion last quarter despite getting significantly less fanfare than chips and gaming.

Microsoft ruminating on suing OpenAI over Altman's recent deal with Amazon

Analyst firm Gartner suggests banning Microsoft Copilot on Friday afternoons, warning that tired workers may miss AI mistakes and risk productivity.

Microsoft has paused plans to auto‑install the Microsoft 365 Copilot app on Windows 11 PCs, but it didn't explain why.

It’s Tuesday, March 17, 2026, and we’re back with today’s top startup and tech funding news. Today’s rounds highlight accelerating investor interest in embedded fintech, automated cybersecurity, programmable therapeutics, and AI-native infrastructure for personalization and compliance. From reshaping how enterprises […]

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Nvidia officially launches the DGX Station featuring a GB300 Grace Blackwell Ultra Desktop Superchip, 748GB of LPPDDR5X and HBM3e memory, and a 1,600-watt power rating.

Satya Nadella unifies Copilot leadership under a former Snap VP, signaling a shift toward in-house "Superintelligence" and independence from OpenAI's models.

Nvidia announced seven chips in full production at GTC 2026 on Monday, composing the Vera Rubin platform that the company intends to ship in the second half of this year.

Windows 11 Copilot+ PCs ship with a dedicated Copilot key. This free app restores the lost Ctrl key and fixes Microsoft’s controversial change.

The group said it will leverage Nvidia Corp.'s data platforms and AI technologies and will integrate data into a unified learning pipeline.

Skild partner with ABB Robotics and Teradyne's Universal Robots to embed its software and deploy "brain" across industrial robots.

The program will support GCC planning, governance design, talent development, and R&D co-creation.

Dell's annual report showed it spent US$569 million in severance payments in fiscal 2026.

The suit seeks class status for anyone whose real images of them as minors were altered into sexual content by Grok.

Fidji Simo previewed OpenAI's refocus plans at an all-hands meeting.

The reveal pairs Nvidia's chip design with Samsung's 4nm manufacturing and Groq's technology.

A class action lawsuit also accused Grok of generating sexualized content from users’ images.

From healthcare to customer service, startups in the region are racing to build AI agents. Here’s who’s doing it and where the money is going.

The hardware will help accelerate modelling, data analysis, and clinical trial work.

ClawNet assigns distinct social identities to AI agents to ensure traceable actions.

Huang framed DLSS 5 as an example of a broader computing shift that could extend beyond gaming into enterprise use cases.

Britannica alleges OpenAI copied nearly 100,000 articles to train ChatGPT's AI models.

Uber's robotaxis will use Nvidia's reasoning-based AI model, Alpamayo, for complex road scenarios.

The company said the next flagship AI processor family, Vera Rubin, will appear in systems in H2 2026.

Blackstone, Permira, and Hellman & Friedman declined to comment; Anthropic did not respond.

Alibaba said ATH's mission would be to "create, deliver, and apply tokens" and that it would focus on building AI-native work platforms.

Huang is also likely to discuss data centers, the CUDA programming platform, digital assistants known as AI agents, and robotics.

Nebius said it currently intends to sell this capacity to third-party customers, with remaining capacity to be purchased by Meta.

"Open models are the lifeblood of innovation and the engine of global participation in the AI revolution," said Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang.

Memories.ai is building a large visual memory model that can index and retrieve video-recorded memories for physical AI.

DLSS 5 is coming to make your favorite games look even more realistic

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman predicts AI will shift from subscriptions to utility billing, charging by usage like power or water.

A Tennessee grandmother spent nearly six months in jail after police in Fargo, North Dakota, used facial recognition software to identify her as the primary suspect in a bank fraud case.

Microsoft just announced Copilot Health, a secure vault for your medical history and wearable data. While 67% of our readers say they aren't ready to hand over the keys to their health data, I have a different perspective.

U.S. Department of Commerce withdraws draft export rule for AI accelerators that would give the U.S. government ultimate power over export controls and mandate investments of foreign firms in the U.S. AI sector.

AMD, Nvidia, Microsoft, Broadcom, and Meta have formed an Optical Compute Interconnect Multi-Source Agreement (OCI MSA) to develop a standardized optical interconnect for AI data centers, with the aspiration to build a PHY capable of handling speeds of up to 3.2 Tb/s.