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’s M12 venture arm, will accelerate development of a revolutionary chip fabrication technology that…
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, jailbreaks, and data leaks—directly into the infrastructure where enterprises build and operate autonomous AI systems. With…
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 $14.6 billion and brings total capital raised…
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 have until March 21 to patch all vulnerable Microsoft SharePoint servers, while CISA strongly urges…
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 announcement also included five new Dragonwing networking infrastructure platforms and an ambitious…
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 delivery contractors rather than public press release, marks a strategic pivot toward autonomous last-mile delivery following…
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 collaboration, positioning both nations to compete more effectively against U.S. and Chinese…
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 & Research, Qualcomm Ventures, and other major investors, brings total capital…
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 capabilities that go far beyond conversation—it actually executes tasks on users’ computers, manages…
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 infrastructure buildout shows no…
Legal and business intelligence giant LexisNexis confirmed a significant data breach on March 3 after hackers publicly leaked approximately 2GB of company files stolen from its AWS cloud infrastructure. The LexisNexis data breach, executed by threat actors calling themselves FulcrumSec, compromised information on roughly 400,000 users including 118 individuals with .gov email addresses—among them federal…
Apple unveiled the MacBook Neo on March 4, marking the company’s most aggressive push into budget computing in over a decade. The Apple MacBook Neo launch starts at $599—nearly half the price of the MacBook Air and $100 cheaper than the base iPhone 17—powered by an iPhone-class A18 Pro chip rather than the M-series processors…
Few things are more frustrating than watching your app updates get stuck on “pending,” “downloading,” or “waiting” while you need to use the updated app. Whether you’re on iPhone or Android, app update stuck issues happen for surprisingly similar reasons—and fortunately, most are easy to fix without contacting support or resetting your device. Why Your…