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Neocloud Lambda secures $1B in debt to buy more chips Neocloud Lambda has raised $1B in private debt to buy Nvidia AI chips and lease them to Microsoft. It’s the latest in a string of loans, underscoring the high cost of the AI boom. Powered by WPeMatico https://techcrunch.com/2026/08/28/neocloud-lambda-secures-1b-in-debt-to-buy-more-chips/
An Anthropic researcher just gave us a peek at self-improving AI Given 10 benchmarks for specific misaligned behaviors, the automated systems were able to improve performance on every single one without degrading overall performance. Powered by WPeMatico https://techcrunch.com/2026/08/28/an-anthropic-researcher-just-gave-us-a-peek-at-self-improving-ai/
Brave’s browser one-ups Chrome with its new support for email aliases The feature, announced this week, allows Brave’s users to sign up for websites and other online services without having to share their personal email addresses. Powered by WPeMatico https://techcrunch.com/2026/08/28/braves-browser-one-ups-chrome-with-its-new-support-for-email-aliases/
Sweden’s top-funded tech companies in H1 2026 Swedish technology companies raised approximately €2.8 billion in H1 2026, with a significant share of capital concentrated in a small number of large transactions. Stegra recorded the largest financing at €1.4 billion, accounting for around 46 per cent of the total. It was
Human must not surrender cognition to AI There is a revealing moment in the maybe-apocalyptic 2023 film Leave the World Behind when Ethan Hawke’s character, George, finds himself driving around in unfamiliar territory after getting in his car to find supplies. Not only that, but something happens that renders all
PlantVoice is bringing ‘plant intelligence’ to precision agriculture Traditionally, farmers make decisions based on weather forecasts, soil moisture measurements, visual observations, and their own experience in the field. These are valuable sources of information, but they only provide part of the picture. Italian startup PlantVoice, however, believes that the plant
Nvidia agrees to buy Hugging Face for $12.9BN, says report Nvidia has agreed to buy Hugging Face, the AI platform and open-source AI model repository, for $12.9bn, according to a report in US tech title The Information, which cited a person with knowledge of the deal. The deal, which has not
ColibriTD secures €4M to scale its quantum simulation platform French quantum software company ColibriTD has raised €4 million in seed funding to further develop its multiphysics simulation technology and expand internationally. The round was led by Earlybird Venture Capital, with participation from SymbiaVC and Medin VC, following a previous €1
Anthropic strikes $45bn deal with Nscale to rent compute capacity Powered by WPeMatico https://sifted.eu/articles/nscale-athropic-deal-data-centre/
Nvidia strikes $12.9bn deal for Hugging Face, reports say Powered by WPeMatico https://sifted.eu/articles/nvidia-hugging-face-acquisition-deal/