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AI Chip Startup Tenstorrent Raises $1.5 Billion Series E at $6.2 Billion Valuation
Tenstorrent, the AI chip company led by veteran chip designer Jim Keller, raised $1.5 billion in new funding this week at a $6.2 billion valuation, roughly double what it was worth after its last round.
Amazon, AEP and X-energy to Study 960-Megawatt Nuclear Plant at Retired Indiana Coal Site
Amazon, American Electric Power and X-energy announced plans to study building 12 small modular reactors at a former Indiana coal plant, with Amazon funding development and buying the power for the grid and its data centers.
Microsoft's October 2026 Patch Tuesday Fixes Over 1,400 Flaws, Including an Already-Exploited Windows Zero-Day
Microsoft's October 13 security updates patched more than 1,400 vulnerabilities, the largest Patch Tuesday release on record, including a Windows Shell flaw already being exploited in attacks.
OpenAI Rolls Out GPT-Live-1.1, Adding New ChatGPT Voices for Six Languages
OpenAI began rolling out GPT-Live-1.1 on October 15, a voice-model update for ChatGPT that adds new voices for French, German, Hindi, Japanese, Korean and Mexican Spanish plus a new English voice.
ABB Adds AI Trainer to Robot Vision Software, Launches Two Precision Robots at CIIF 2026
At China's CIIF trade show, ABB Robotics expanded its OmniCore EyeMotion vision platform with a new AI Robot Trainer tool and unveiled two compact industrial robots for precision manufacturing.
AstraZeneca Signs AI Drug Discovery Deal With Insitro Worth Up to $1.5 Billion
AstraZeneca will pay AI biotech insitro $40 million upfront, with up to about $1.46 billion in milestone payments, to find new drug targets for liver disease and cardiomyopathy.
Microsoft Unveils Maia 300, a Custom AI Chip Aimed at Nvidia's Grip on the Market
Microsoft showed off Maia 300, its third-generation in-house AI accelerator, saying it will become the main chip for AI inference across its products as the company works to rely less on Nvidia.
Ransomware attack on SoftBank-owned cloud provider IDC Frontier disrupts nearly 500 Japanese organizations
A ransomware attack on October 7 forced Japanese cloud provider IDC Frontier to shut down part of its IDCF Cloud service, disrupting around 495 companies and government bodies, including railway, police and logistics systems.
Nvidia-backed AI cloud provider Lambda seeks $4 billion ahead of planned 2027 IPO
Lambda is reportedly in talks to raise up to $4 billion at a $14.5 billion valuation, led by Blackstone and Coatue, in what would be its last private round before a 2027 listing.
Finland halts work on two Google data center sites over missing environmental reviews
Finnish regulators ordered Google's local partner to stop land-clearing work at two planned data centers after finding hundreds of hectares of forest removed before required environmental impact assessments were finished.
AI recruiting startup Metaview raises $60 million to scale its hiring agents
Metaview announced a $60 million Series C led by Insight Partners to expand its agentic recruiting platform, bringing total funding to $110 million.
Google rolls out Gemini 4 Argon, a cybersecurity-focused AI model, to vetted defenders first
Google began giving access to Gemini 4 Argon, an AI model it says can autonomously find and patch software vulnerabilities, exclusively to trusted cyber defenders before any wider release.