Italy’s Lexroom hits $73M total raised on $50M Series B for civil-law legal AI
Italy’s Lexroom hits $73M total raised on $50M Series B for civil-law legal AI

Left Lane Capital led the Milan-based startup’s Series B, eight months after its $19m Series A. Lexroom is selling 8,000+ law firms a verified-source legal AI built around six million documents. Milan-based Lexroom, the legal AI startup focused on civi…

Blackstone takes the majority position in Google’s new TPU cloud
Blackstone takes the majority position in Google’s new TPU cloud

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 f…

Intel and Qualcomm circle Tenstorrent as the NVIDIA-alternative trade comes due
Intel and Qualcomm circle Tenstorrent as the NVIDIA-alternative trade comes due

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…

Analog Devices near $1.5bn cash deal for Empower Semiconductor’s AI power chips
Analog Devices near $1.5bn cash deal for Empower Semiconductor’s AI power chips

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 Californ…

Mistral buys Vienna’s Emmi AI to put physics into its industrial pitch
Mistral buys Vienna’s Emmi AI to put physics into its industrial pitch

The Paris-based open-weights lab is acquiring an Austrian startup whose models handle airflow, heat transfer, and material stress, targeting aerospace, automotive, and semiconductor customers. Terms were not disclosed. Mistral AI, Europe’s most promine…

Sigma Computing doubles valuation to $3 billion in Series E as agentic analytics race heats up
Sigma Computing doubles valuation to $3 billion in Series E as agentic analytics race heats up

  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…

Omnia and Casa dos Ventos sign $2bn power deal anchoring TikTok’s Brazil data centre
Omnia and Casa dos Ventos sign $2bn power deal anchoring TikTok’s Brazil data centre

The Pátria-controlled data-centre developer is buying renewable power from Brazil’s largest independent generator to underwrite a 200 MW campus in Pecém, the first ByteDance facility in Latin America. Omnia, the Pátria Investimentos-backed data-centre …

NextEra agrees $67bn all-stock deal for Dominion in largest power acquisition ever
NextEra agrees $67bn all-stock deal for Dominion in largest power acquisition ever

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…

Decart raises $300M to put a real-time world model in front of Amazon’s chips
Decart raises $300M to put a real-time world model in front of Amazon’s chips

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 …

Dust raises $40M to push enterprise AI past the single-player era
Dust raises $40M to push enterprise AI past the single-player era

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 S…