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Armenia just opened the region’s biggest AI factory. It exists because Washington signed a licence.

Aug08
by on August 8, 2026 at 12:21 pm
Posted In: artificial intelligence, Nvidia

Firebird, a US-based AI cloud company, opened what NVIDIA calls the CIS region’s largest AI factory in Hrazdan, Armenia on Saturday. Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan attended, alongside Kazakhstan’s deputy prime minister Zhaslan Madiyev and David Allen, the US chargé d’affaires in Armenia. That guest list is the story. A US company opened a facility in a […]

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Cloudflare built a browser for AI agents. It uses 7x less memory than Chromium and runs entirely on Workers.

Aug07
by on August 7, 2026 at 9:07 pm
Posted In: Apps, artificial intelligence

Cloudflare built a browser from scratch for AI agents and launched it today as a free beta inside its Browser Run product. Kitesurf runs entirely on Cloudflare Workers, uses Rust compiled to WebAssembly, and strips out everything a human browser needs but an agent does not: tabs, extensions, themes, pixel-perfect rendering, and 60-fps scrolling. What […]

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Fusion’s best-funded bet raised another $1bn, and hired the banker who took Moderna public

Jul31
by on July 31, 2026 at 3:04 pm
Posted In: artificial intelligence

The AI boom needs colossal amounts of electricity. That has turned fusion, forever mocked as “30 years away,” into one of the hottest bets in tech. The best-funded player just raised another $1 billion. Commonwealth Fusion Systems, based in Massachusetts, said the round takes its total to $4 billion, roughly 30% of all the money […]

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Everyone else is shrinking satellites. K2 raised $500m to build giant ones, and put AI in orbit.

Jul31
by on July 31, 2026 at 3:01 pm
Posted In: artificial intelligence, Space

Most satellite startups are racing to build smaller. K2 Space is going the other way, on purpose. Investors just handed it $500 million to keep going bigger. K2 raised a $500 million Series D at a $6.8 billion valuation, it said on Thursday. Kleiner Perkins and ICONIQ led the round, with Alphabet’s CapitalG, Lightspeed and […]

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The unsexy layer AI agents actually need: DataBahn raises $40m to sell it

Jul31
by on July 31, 2026 at 2:58 pm
Posted In: artificial intelligence, Business Apps

The glamorous part of AI is the models. The expensive, unglamorous part is getting them the right data. A startup just raised $40 million betting that job is the next big enterprise layer. DataBahn, a Texas company founded in 2023, has closed a $40 million Series B led by Insight Partners, it said on Thursday. […]

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