Inherent's Faraday Agent Replicates Research Papers on a 27B Model
London lab Inherent says its Faraday agent, running on a 27B-parameter model, beat Claude Opus 4.8 and GPT-5.5 at reproducing published scientific findings.
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Etched Raises $700M at a $21B Valuation, Doubling Its Price in One Month
Etched raised $700M at a $21B valuation led by Jane Street, doubling its July price. The startup splits inference into prefill and decode with separate silicon.
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Databricks Wanted $1 Billion. Investors Offered $15 Billion.
Databricks closed $5 billion at a $190 billion valuation after investor demand hit $15 billion against a $1 billion target. CEO Ali Ghodsi explains why.
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Volta Was Founded in January. It Just Signed a $10 Billion Contract.
Volta, incorporated in January 2026 by ex-Brookfield executives, signed a roughly $10B six-year compute contract for a 133MW Norwegian site.
Seung Jung·
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AMD Buys Taalas to Etch AI Models Directly Into Silicon
AMD is acquiring Toronto startup Taalas, whose chips etch AI model weights directly into silicon to sidestep the memory bottleneck in inference.
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