What you should know about data privacy in 2026 is that it is no longer just a concern for tech experts or large corporations. Data privacy now affects everyday internet users—anyone who owns a smartphone, uses social media, shops online, or works remotely. As digital services become more connecte
Lace Helium Lithography Funding: $40M Microsoft-Backed Round Targets Atomic-Scale Chipmaking by 2029
Norwegian chipmaking equipment startup Lace Lithography announced $40 million in Series A funding on March 23, bringing total capital raised to over $60 million since its 2023 founding. The Lace helium lithography funding Microsoft-backed round, led by Atomico with participation from Microsoft’
OpenAI announced the acquisition of Promptfoo, an AI security startup, on March 9 to strengthen security capabilities in its Frontier enterprise platform. The OpenAI Promptfoo acquisition AI security deal brings tools for identifying vulnerabilities in AI agents—including prompt injection, jailbre
UK-based AI infrastructure company Nscale announced $2 billion in Series C funding on March 9, making it the largest Series C round in European history. The Nscale $2 billion funding Europe deal, led by Norwegian energy company Aker ASA and investment firm 8090 Industries, values the startup at $14.
The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) added the SharePoint CVE-2026-20963 vulnerability to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog on March 18, confirming that attackers are actively exploiting the critical remote code execution flaw in the wild. Federal agencies
Qualcomm unveiled its first Wi-Fi 8-ready hardware portfolio at Mobile World Congress Barcelona on March 1, headlined by the FastConnect 8800 mobile connectivity system delivering peak speeds up to 11.6Gbps—double the performance of previous Wi-Fi 7 solutions. The Qualcomm Wi-Fi 8 chips MWC announ
Amazon quietly acquired Rivr, a Zurich-based robotics startup developing four-legged, wheeled delivery robots capable of climbing stairs and navigating difficult terrain, the company confirmed March 19. The Amazon Rivr acquisition robotics deal, announced through a notice sent to third-party deliver
Singapore and South Korea announced a strategic AI partnership on March 2 at the Korea-Singapore AI Connect Summit in Singapore, with plans to establish a $300 million global fund by 2030. The Singapore South Korea AI alliance represents Asia’s most significant bilateral technology collaborati
Silicon Valley-based Frore Systems announced a $143 million Series D funding round on March 16, valuing the AI chip cooling startup at $1.64 billion and officially achieving unicorn status. The Frore Systems cooling chip funding, led by MVP Ventures with participation from Fidelity Management &
An open-source AI agent called OpenClaw has become the fastest-growing software project in history, surpassing 250,000 GitHub stars in fewer than four months and eclipsing React as the most-starred non-aggregator software project ever. The OpenClaw AI agent viral phenomenon centers on autonomous cap
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang took the stage at GTC 2026 in San Jose on March 16 with a stunning projection: the company expects to sell at least $1 trillion worth of AI hardware through 2027. The Nvidia GTC 2026 trillion dollar forecast doubles last year’s estimate and signals that the AI infrastru
