Ultrahuman, a smart ring maker, announced it raised $70 million from Qualcomm Ventures, Labcorp, Alpha Wave, Blume and others to develop next-generation AI wearables, with plans to enable gesture cont…
Velaura AI, a Santa Clara-based chip designer formerly known as Auradine Inc., closed a $110 million Series V-A funding round on July 10, pushing its post-money valuation to $1.05 billion. The round i…
Lumilens, an optical data center connectivity startup founded by former Aruba CTO Ankur Singla, emerged from stealth with more than $900 million in total funding and a $5.5 billion valuation. The comp…
Pokee AI, founded by CEO Zheqing (Bill) Zhu, launched Pokee-Isaac 28B on August 4th, a proprietary agent model claiming 10-million-token context on a single Nvidia RTX 4090-class GPU, with internal te…
NetApp acquired AI data infrastructure startup DataPelago, which will operate as a wholly owned subsidiary. DataPelago's Nucleus engine processes data at the storage layer, reducing infrastructure cos…
Brazilian startup Gabriel uses AI-powered cameras to scan license plates and share data with police, aiming to solve theft cases in São Paulo, Rio de Janeiro, and Belo Horizonte. Critics raise privacy…