The two have formed a joint venture to build a US-based AI compute-as-a-service business on Google’s TPUs, with $5bn of Blackstone equity, $25bn total deal value including leverage, and 500 MW of capacity targeted for 2027. Blackstone and Google have formed a joint venture to build a US-based AI compute-as-a-service business on Google’s tensor processing […]
Bloomberg reports early-stage takeover conversations with the Jim Keller-led AI chip startup, which raised $800m at a $3.2bn valuation last year and counts Bezos Expeditions and Samsung among its backers. Tenstorrent, the Jim Keller-led AI chip startup, has held early-stage takeover conversations with Intel and Qualcomm, Bloomberg reported on Monday, citing people familiar with the […]
The Milpitas-based vertical-power-delivery firm puts more than 3,000 amps of current directly under the GPU. The deal could be announced as soon as Tuesday. Analog Devices is in advanced talks to acquire Empower Semiconductor, the closely held Californian power-management chip company, for $1.5bn in cash, Bloomberg reported on Tuesday, citing people familiar with the matter. […]
Sigma Computing has raised $80 million in Series E funding at a $3 billion valuation, doubling its worth in a year and positioning the San Francisco-based company as one of the most aggressively valued players in the business intelligence market. The round was led by Princeville Capital, with new strategic investors Databricks Ventures, ServiceNow […]
The all-stock takeover, the largest power acquisition ever, gives NextEra the utility that runs Northern Virginia’s data-centre belt and consolidates the bidding power on the demand side of the AI-electricity trade. NextEra Energy has agreed to acquire Dominion Energy for about $67bn in an all-stock deal, Bloomberg reported on Monday, in what would be the […]
Radical Ventures led the round, with Nvidia, Sequoia, Benchmark, Adobe, and Toyota alongside. Andrej Karpathy, Michael Eisner, and the Nintendo family are angels. Total raised is now over $450m. Decart, the AI research lab building real-time video and world models, announced on Monday it had raised $300m in new funding led by Radical Ventures. The […]
The Paris- and San Francisco-based platform’s Series B is co-led by Abstract and Sequoia, with Snowflake and Datadog participating. Total funding is now north of $60m. Dust, the Paris- and San Francisco-based enterprise AI platform, has raised a $40m Series B co-led by Abstract and Sequoia, with participation from Snowflake and Datadog, the company said […]
L Catterton has sold its majority stake at a steep discount to the DTC era’s peak valuation. Common stockholders get nothing. The Everlane board signed on Saturday. Shein, the Chinese-founded ultra-fast-fashion giant, is acquiring Everlane, the San Francisco-based direct-to-consumer apparel brand, from majority owner L Catterton, according to reports in Bloomberg. The transaction values Everlane […]
The Tampa-based, Sun Capital-owned software services firm is folding the SAP- and IWG-trusted UK digital agency into its Digital Experiences practice. Deal terms were not disclosed. Exadel, the Tampa-based software-development and consulting firm, has acquired Tangent, the London-based digital experience consultancy, the company said on Monday. Terms were not disclosed. Tangent will continue to operate […]
Europe’s largest bank is putting a dedicated facility behind Chinese solar, battery, EV and data-centre exporters expanding overseas, citing demand that has accelerated alongside the Iran war. HSBC has set up a dedicated $4bn credit facility to help Chinese clean-technology companies expand overseas, the bank said on Monday. The ‘Sustainability and Transition Credit Facility’ covers […]
