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Runware raises $50M Series A to accelerate AI inference for developers building with generative AI

Runware, an AI inference startup founded in 2023, has raised $50 million in Series A funding led by Dawn Capital. The platform specializes in real-time image, video, and audio generation, having powered over 10 billion creations for more than 200,000 developers. The company aims to become the universal API for all generative AI models.

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Runware raises $50M Series A to accelerate AI inference for developers building with generative AI

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Broadcom AI revenue surges 74% but stock tumbles on profitability concerns despite record earnings

Broadcom delivered crushing fourth-quarter results with AI chips revenue jumping 74% to $6.5 billion and total revenue reaching $18 billion. But the stock plunged over 10% after CEO Hock Tan warned that higher AI sales would compress gross margins. The company revealed an $11 billion custom chip deal with Anthropic and projected AI revenue to double to $8.2 billion next quarter, yet investors questioned whether rapid growth justifies stretched valuations.

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Broadcom AI revenue surges 74% but stock tumbles on profitability concerns despite record earnings

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Drax to build 100MW data centre at Yorkshire power station to meet surging AI energy demand

Drax has revealed plans to convert part of its North Yorkshire power plant into a 100MW data centre by 2027, repurposing coal-era infrastructure to meet the increasing demand for AI capability. The move comes as the UK government signals it will curb subsidies for the company's biomass operations while tech companies scramble for sites with existing grid connections.

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Drax to build 100MW data centre at Yorkshire power station to meet surging AI energy demand

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DOE commits $320M to Genesis Mission, targeting doubled U.S. scientific productivity with AI

The Department of Energy unveiled over $320 million in funding for Trump's Genesis Mission, an ambitious AI initiative designed to double American scientific productivity within a decade. The investment establishes the American Science Cloud and partners with tech giants including Nvidia, OpenAI, and Microsoft to create an integrated discovery platform linking national labs with industry and academia.

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DOE commits $320M to Genesis Mission, targeting doubled U.S. scientific productivity with AI

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Time Magazine names Architects of AI as Person of the Year, recognizing tech leaders reshaping society

Time Magazine's Person of the Year 2025 honors the Architects of AI—prominent AI leaders including Sam Altman, Jensen Huang, Mark Zuckerberg, Elon Musk, and Lisa Su. The recognition marks AI's profound and rapid integration into every aspect of life, from reshaping government policy to transforming the workplace, while sparking intense societal discussions surrounding AI ethics, training data, and its impact on employment.

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Time Magazine names Architects of AI as Person of the Year, recognizing tech leaders reshaping society

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Microsoft names Cognizant, Infosys, TCS, Wipro as frontier firms for massive Copilot deployment

Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella announced partnerships with India's top IT giants—Cognizant, Infosys, TCS, and Wipro—positioning them as frontier firms in agentic AI adoption. Each company will deploy over 50,000 Microsoft Copilot licenses, collectively exceeding 200,000 seats. The move follows Microsoft's $17.5 billion investment in India's cloud and AI infrastructure.

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Microsoft names Cognizant, Infosys, TCS, Wipro as frontier firms for massive Copilot deployment

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Okta plans 50% workforce expansion in India by 2026 to advance AI security operations

Okta is significantly expanding its India operations with plans to grow its workforce by 50% by 2026, focusing on advanced engineering and product development at its Bengaluru campus. The expansion aims to develop identity security solutions for AI agents, as the company targets doubling its revenue from $5 billion to $10 billion.

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Okta plans 50% workforce expansion in India by 2026 to advance AI security operations

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CP Plus Qualcomm Partner to Launch Edge AI Video Intelligence Systems Across India

CP Plus and Qualcomm Technologies have announced a collaboration to develop AI-powered video intelligence solutions for India's industrial, public infrastructure, and enterprise sectors. The partnership combines CP Plus' nationwide distribution network with Qualcomm's Dragonwing processors and Insight Platform to deliver real-time, on-site video analytics. Expected to launch in Q1 2026, the system processes data locally using edge AI, reducing reliance on central servers while keeping sensitive footage on premises.

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CP Plus Qualcomm Partner to Launch Edge AI Video Intelligence Systems Across India

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Couchbase launches AI Services to unify data and models for faster agent development

Cloud database company Couchbase has released AI Services, a unified platform that bundles model hosting and data processing capabilities to address the complexity and fragmentation hindering agentic AI application development. The new offering integrates with Nvidia AI Enterprise and provides automatic vector creation, intelligent agent memory, and governance controls to help enterprises move from AI experimentation to production deployment.

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Couchbase launches AI Services to unify data and models for faster agent development

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Google promotes Amin Vahdat to lead AI infrastructure as spending hits $93 billion

Google elevated Amin Vahdat to chief technologist for AI infrastructure, a newly created C-suite position reporting directly to CEO Sundar Pichai. The move comes as the company pours up to $93 billion into capital expenditures by the end of 2025, with expectations for even larger investments next year. Vahdat, who has spent 15 years building Google's AI backbone, will oversee the company's custom TPU chips and data center operations.

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Google promotes Amin Vahdat to lead AI infrastructure as spending hits $93 billion

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AI Trained in Space as Tech Giants Race to Build Orbiting Data Centers Powered by Solar Energy

Starcloud successfully trained the first AI model in space using an Nvidia H100 GPU aboard its satellite. Google plans to launch Project Suncatcher in 2027, while SpaceX and other tech giants pursue orbital data centers to address the environmental impact of ground-based AI infrastructure and tap into unlimited solar energy.

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AI Trained in Space as Tech Giants Race to Build Orbiting Data Centers Powered by Solar Energy

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Google launches managed MCP servers that let AI agents plug into BigQuery, Maps, and Cloud tools

Google rolled out fully managed MCP servers for BigQuery, Google Maps, Compute Engine, and Kubernetes Engine, making its cloud ecosystem agent-ready by design. The move eliminates weeks of connector setup and brings standardized access to AI agents through the Model Context Protocol. Enterprise customers get production-grade endpoints with built-in security and governance at no extra cost.

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Google launches managed MCP servers that let AI agents plug into BigQuery, Maps, and Cloud tools

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Enterprise AI adoption reveals 6x productivity gap between power users and typical workers

A new OpenAI report analyzing over one million business customers reveals workers at the 95th percentile of AI adoption send six times as many messages to ChatGPT as median employees. Despite widespread access to enterprise AI tools across 7 million workplace seats, most organizations struggle to realize meaningful returns on their generative AI investments, with only 5% seeing transformative results from $30-40 billion in spending.

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Enterprise AI adoption reveals 6x productivity gap between power users and typical workers

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Musk and Bezos ignite space race as orbital data centers emerge to solve AI's energy crisis

SpaceX and Blue Origin are racing to build AI in space as terrestrial data center limitations threaten AI growth. With SpaceX preparing a $1.5 trillion IPO and Starcloud already training the first AI model in space, orbital data centers promise constant solar energy without the environmental strain of Earth-based facilities. The competition intensifies as Elon Musk vs Jeff Bezos battle for dominance in this emerging frontier.

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Musk and Bezos ignite space race as orbital data centers emerge to solve AI's energy crisis

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Boom Supersonic pivots jet engine tech to power AI data centers with 42 MW turbine

Boom Supersonic is adapting its supersonic jet engine technology to address the AI power crisis. The company secured $300 million in funding and landed a 1.21 gigawatt order from Crusoe for its new Superpower turbine, which generates 42 MW while operating without water cooling. The pivot creates a revenue stream to fund its Overture supersonic airliner ambitions.

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Boom Supersonic pivots jet engine tech to power AI data centers with 42 MW turbine

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