2026-06-18
Nvidia-backed Verse raises $54M to help AI data centres skip the power queue
For years, the scarce resource in AI was chips. Now it is power. Verse Enterprises wants to unblock that bottleneck. The San Francisco startup has raised an oversubscribed $54mn Series B. Bessemer Venture Partners led the round. GV, Nvidia and Norrsken VC also took part. The race to AI is now a race to power […]<br /> This story continues at The Next Web [...]
2026-06-18
Architect Labs raises $24M to let any company design its own AI chip
Designing a chip is hard. It takes years, hundreds of millions of dollars, and a tiny pool of experts. Most of them sit inside a few large companies. Architect Labs wants to change that with AI. The Palo Alto startup left stealth on Thursday with a $24mn seed round. Its plan is to build an […]<br /> This story continues at The Next Web [...]
2026-06-18
Gradial raises $65M to be the ‘AI glue’ for enterprise marketing
Every software company is racing to bolt an AI agent onto its own product. Gradial is betting the real money is in the gaps between them. The Seattle startup has raised $65mn in Series C funding to build what it calls an operating system for marketing: a layer of AI agents that execute work across […]<br /> This story continues at The Next Web [...]
2026-06-18
‘It’s literally the gulag’: inside the revolt at Meta’s AI unit, where elite engineers were drafted to label data
It takes a particular kind of dysfunction for an employee to hijack a company-wide livestream and demand the hosts pass a message to a senior executive: that he is, in not so many words, garbage. That happened inside Meta this month. According to a recording heard by WIRED, the outburst, on a call open to […]<br /> This story continues at The Next Web [...]
2026-06-18
Amnezia VPN restores 20 Premium server locations and compensates users following cyberattacks
AmneziaVPN Premium users finally have their 20 server locations back online! Plus, the provider is rolling out compensation following a chaotic few weeks of cyberattacks. Here is everything we know so far. [...]