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Venture capital moved into a remarkably broad mix of markets overnight, but one deal towers over the rest: Instinct’s $250 million Series B at a $2.5 billion valuation. The consumer AI assistant, still in private beta, accounts for most of […] The post Startup Funding News Today, August 27, 2026: Instinct, Breedr, Agentrys & More…
SoftBank is in talks to buy a majority stake in OpenAI-backed humanoid robotics startup 1X Technologies in a deal that would value the company at roughly $6 billion, according to an exclusive report from The Information. The talks are still […] The post SoftBank in talks to buy a majority stake in humanoid robot startup…
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NVIDIA Vice President of Hyperscale and HPC Ian Buck hand-delivers Vera CPU systems across the AI ecosystem as Vera begins shipping at scale.
NVIDIA’s Gamescom announcements are revealing what’s next for GeForce NOW, with new ways to play, more supported devices and platforms, and even more big PC games headed to the cloud. New NVIDIA DLSS 4.5 technology controls give members more ways to fine-tune gameplay, while expanded support for new Steam devices, GOG single sign-on, Firefox browser…
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Shadow of the Road, an upcoming turn-based CRPG published by Owlcat Games set in a dark, steampunk fantasy take on feudal-era Japan, has announced that it will be launching on November 12, 2026, for PC.
AI is officially mainstream in security operations. According to Prophet Security’s State of AI in Security Operations 2026 report (produced from ViB’s survey of 250+ cybersecurity pros), 40% of security teams now use AI daily. Another 56% are currently testing it out, and only 4% have no plans to adopt it. For the teams already…
The Australian Federal Police (AFP) has charged two Western Australian men with a combined total of 14 offences over their alleged role in TeamPCP, the cybercrime group behind the March 2026 compromise of the open-source security scanners Trivy and Checkmarx KICS and the AI gateway LiteLLM. Louis Michael Gaebler, 23, and Ruben Ian Thomson, 21,…
