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Latest updates on high-density GPUs, AI accelerators, datacenter infrastructure, and supercomputer clusters.

Source: Elastic agrees to buy CRV-backed Deductive AI for up to $85M - Crisp IDE interface with syntax highlighting, folder structure tree, and programming nodes.
TechCrunch AIJun 19, 2026

Source: Elastic agrees to buy CRV-backed Deductive AI for up to $85M

Deductive AI, a startup that uses AI to catch and resolve bugs in software, was founded just three years ago.

Elastic
How to turn off AI in your Google Docs - Three professional tech co-founders holding laptops and discussing strategy while walking outside modern corporate office buildings.
TechCrunch AIJun 18, 2026

How to turn off AI in your Google Docs

Here's what you need to do to get those pesky "write with Gemini" pop-ups to go away.

Kimi K2.7 Code Now Available on Serverless Inference with Leading Benchmark Price-Performance - Academic research paper layout showing text columns, graphs, and citation network nodes.
CoreWeaveJun 19, 2026

Kimi K2.7 Code Now Available on Serverless Inference with Leading Benchmark Price-Performance

CoreWeave Inference achieves the highest output speed for the newly-launched Kimi K2.7 Code and ranks in the most attractive price-performance quadrant.

Benchmark
OpenAI is bringing on some big guns in the lead-up to its IPO - OpenAI logo displayed within a futuristic AI-powered digital world featuring global connectivity, smart cities, machine learning, and modern artificial intelligence technology.
TechCrunch AIJun 18, 2026

OpenAI is bringing on some big guns in the lead-up to its IPO

OpenAI is bulking up before its IPO, landing Transformer co-inventor Noam Shazeer from Google DeepMind and former Trump AI policy official Dean Ball in the same

General Intuition in talks to raise $300M at around $2B valuation - A modern startup office and team working dynamically on digital platforms and building innovative software solutions.
TechCrunch AIJun 18, 2026

General Intuition in talks to raise $300M at around $2B valuation

The startup trains embodied AI and world models using Medal's dataset of 2 billion videos per year from 10 million monthly active users.

The Download: AI bottleneck debates, and BCI trials take off - Abstract transformer neural network layers showing text tokens and attention mechanism loops.
MIT Tech ReviewJun 19, 2026

The Download: AI bottleneck debates, and BCI trials take off

This is today's edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what's going on in the world of technology. A startup claims it br

Transformers
CoreWeave Trains DeepSeek-V3 Benchmark in Two Minutes - Futuristic robotics automation showing industrial robotics, autonomous machinery, smart sensors, and advanced engineering.
CoreWeaveJun 18, 2026

CoreWeave Trains DeepSeek-V3 Benchmark in Two Minutes

CoreWeave's MLPerf® Training v6.0 results set new records, demonstrating how customers can train frontier AI models faster, scale more efficiently, and get more value from every GPU deployed.

Benchmark
Prem seeks $100M Series A as export bans boost sovereign AI demand - High-performance GPU hardware accelerator designed for deep learning, AI training, and advanced parallel computing architectures.
SiliconANGLEJun 18, 2026

Prem seeks $100M Series A as export bans boost sovereign AI demand

Swiss artificial intelligence startup Prem SA is raising $100 million in Series A funding at a valuation of at least $500 million, Bloomberg reported today. The round is expected to close in the third quarter. Prem sells software for running AI models on a company's own infrastructure, not a cloud p

Series A $100m
Dream raises $260M for its sovereign AI and cybersecurity tools - A beautiful cosmic deep space background filled with glowing mathematical formulas, quantum physics equations, and scientific notation.
SiliconANGLEJun 18, 2026

Dream raises $260M for its sovereign AI and cybersecurity tools

Dream Security Ltd., a developer of artificial intelligence and cybersecurity software for governments, today announced that it has raised $260 million in funding. Bicycle Capital and Group 11 jointly led the investment. They were joined by several other institutional backers including Bain Capital

Undisclosed $260m
AI inference startup Baseten reportedly raising $1.5B months after its last mega-round - Abstract colorful AI generative art symbolizing the creative potential and dynamic complexity of artificial intelligence algorithms.
TechCrunch AIJun 18, 2026

AI inference startup Baseten reportedly raising $1.5B months after its last mega-round

Startup Baseten is reportedly close to finalizing a $1.5 billion round at a $13 billion as the "inference gold rush" marches on.

Undisclosed $1.5b
Every fusion startup that has raised over $100M - Abstract cybersecurity banner showing glowing lock icons, safe digital paths, and defensive firewalls.
TechCrunch StartupsJun 19, 2026

Every fusion startup that has raised over $100M

Fusion startups have raised $7.1 billion to date, with the majority of it going to a handful of companies.

Undisclosed $100m
Agentic marketing AI startup Gradial grabs $65M in fresh funding - Three professional tech co-founders holding laptops and discussing strategy while walking outside modern corporate office buildings.
SiliconANGLEJun 19, 2026

Agentic marketing AI startup Gradial grabs $65M in fresh funding

Seattle-based startup Gradial today revealed it has raised $65 million in a new round of funding to accelerate the development of its agentic artificial intelligence operating system for marketing. Today's Series C round was first reported by Axios and led by Insight Partners, bringing the startup's

Insight Partners
[AINews] GLM GPT? GLM-5.2 passes vibe check; Z.ai forecasts Open Fable by December - Abstract representations of capital growth, investment rounds, and funding growth charts for artificial intelligence startups.
Latent SpaceJun 19, 2026

[AINews] GLM GPT? GLM-5.2 passes vibe check; Z.ai forecasts Open Fable by December

With GLM-5.2 passing everyone's vibe check, the open models story finally becomes a real frontier story.

Research
The Professor of Outputmaxxing - Anjney Midha, AMP - Abstract representations of capital growth, investment rounds, and funding growth charts for artificial intelligence startups.
Latent SpaceJun 18, 2026

The Professor of Outputmaxxing - Anjney Midha, AMP

We talk about how this legendary investor went from humble beginnings in Singapore to leading rounds in Anthropic, Mistral, Black Forest Labs, and Periodic Labs... and the AMP secret master plan!