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CivilGrid Raises $26M Series A From Spark Capital For U.S. Infrastructure Data Layer — Aug 28, 2026 — San Francisco's CivilGrid raised a $26M Series A led by Spark Capital to scale its collaborative map for utility, environmental and regulatory data, w...Transfyr Launches With $25M Seed To Build A Physical AI Observability Layer For Science — Aug 28, 2026 — Transfyr, co-founded by ex-Ginkgo Bioworks AI lead Anna Marie Wagner and ARPA-H founding director Renee Wegrzyn, exited stealth with a $25M seed led b...MP Materials Signs Multi-Year Gadolinium Supply Deal With U.S. Aerospace & Defense Customer — Aug 28, 2026 — MP Materials will supply gadolinium oxide to an unnamed major U.S. aerospace and defense customer under a multi-year deal expected to be worth nine fi...Warpify Robotics Closes Pre-Series A From Zhongguancun Zhongnuo Fund — Aug 28, 2026 — Shenzhen-based Warpify Technology raised an undisclosed pre-Series A from Beijing's Zhongguancun Zhongnuo Fund, its first institutional round, to scal...REGENT Craft Raises $240M Series B To Scale Seaglider Production — Aug 28, 2026 — REGENT Craft closed a $240 million Series B on August 27, co-led by Mare Liberum and AE Ventures with debt from Palmer Luckey's Erebor Bank, funding t...Check-Cap Completes MBody AI Merger, Closes $10M Ordinary-Share Offering — Aug 28, 2026 — Check-Cap Ltd. (NASDAQ: MBAI) closed a $10 million public offering on August 27 after finalizing its business combination with MBody AI Corp., complet...Lupin Dental Closes €15M Series A For Next-Gen Dental Robotics — Aug 28, 2026 — France-based Lupin Dental closed a €15 million Series A led by Fynveur to scale its next-generation dental robotics platform, with existing shareholde...Marvell's $120B Google Custom Chip Deal Faces Revenue Timing Test — Aug 28, 2026 — Marvell Technology shares fell about 8% after CEO Matt Murphy told investors the semiconductor company's up to $120 billion custom AI chip agreement w...Vietnam Pushes Qualcomm, Samsung To Expand AI, Chip And Robotics Investment — Aug 28, 2026 — Vietnamese President To Lam met the CEOs of Qualcomm and Samsung Electronics to press both companies to deepen AI, semiconductor, robotics and data-ce...Alibaba Cloud Opens First South America Region With Two Brazil Data Centers — Aug 28, 2026 — Alibaba Cloud has activated its first South American region with two data centers in Brazil, offering local Alibaba enterprise AI and agentic AI servi...Andreessen Horowitz Launches $1.1B Machine Age Fund For AI Hardware — Aug 28, 2026 — Andreessen Horowitz has raised $1.1 billion for its first fund dedicated to the physical layer of artificial intelligence, targeting chips, memory, in...Anthropic signs $45B compute deal with UK's Nscale — Aug 28, 2026 — Anthropic will pay Nscale roughly $45 billion over six years for 460 megawatts of NVIDIA Vera Rubin GPU capacity from a West Virginia data center, ahe...NVIDIA nears $12.9 billion Hugging Face acquisition — Aug 28, 2026 — NVIDIA is nearing a $12.9 billion deal to acquire Hugging Face, the leading platform for open-source AI models, in what would be one of the largest AI...Salesforce, Anthropic Launch Claudeforce With 37 Prebuilt Sales Skills Inside Claude — Aug 28, 2026 — Claudeforce turns Salesforce into a first-class citizen inside Claude via a 37-skill sales plugin, while Claude becomes Slack's default model and land...Cisco, Supermicro Push Secure AI Factory With NVIDIA Into Rack-Scale Era — Aug 28, 2026 — Cisco is folding Supermicro's high-density liquid- and air-cooled servers into its Secure AI Factory with NVIDIA, delivering an NCP-compliant rack-sca...India's AM Intelligence Orders 9,000 NVIDIA Vera Rubin Systems For Hyderabad AI Factory — Aug 28, 2026 — AM Intelligence, backed by renewable-energy giant Greenko Group, has placed a binding order for roughly 9,000 NVIDIA Vera Rubin NVL72 rack systems for...Agentrys Raises $24.5M For Agentic Design Automation Of Chips — Aug 28, 2026 — Agentrys, founded by former NVIDIA Research leader Mark Ren, has raised $24.5M across seed and pre-seed rounds to build an agent-driven chip design pl...SoftBank In Talks For Majority Stake In 1X At $6 Billion Valuation — Aug 28, 2026 — SoftBank is negotiating to buy a majority stake in OpenAI-backed humanoid maker 1X Technologies at a roughly $6 billion valuation, a 40% haircut from...Greenvolt Locks In €218M UniCredit Package For 400 MW Poland BESS — Aug 28, 2026 — UniCredit is providing €218 million in bridge and guarantee facilities to Greenvolt Power for its 400 MW / 1.6 GWh Elk and Turosn Koscielna battery pr...Astrum Space To Go Public In $1B Black Spade SPAC Deal — Aug 28, 2026 — Singapore's Astrum Space will merge with Black Spade Acquisition III in a $1 billion SPAC deal, taking the Asia-Pacific Satellite-to-Device operator b...