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​​Want to keep track of the largest startup funding deals in 2026 with our curated list of $100 million-plus venture deals to U.S.-based companies? Check out The Crunchbase Megadeals Board. This is a weekly feature that runs down the week’s top 10 announced funding rounds in the U.S. Check out last week’s biggest funding deal…

Amazon Web Services Inc.’s next-generation custom silicon is finally being made accessible to customers for the first time with the launch of the Elastic Compute Cloud M9g and M9gd instances. They’re powered by the all-new Graviton5 central processing unit, which is designed to deliver superior compute performance for diverse cloud workloads, including artificial intelligence applications….

Databricks Inc. is in the process of finalizing a funding round that will value it at $118 billion. The company announced the deal on Thursday without disclosing the amount that it’s raising. According to the Wall Street Journal, the round will add $3 billion to Databricks’ balance sheet. Coatue is leading the investment with contributions…

Some of the AI industry’s fastest-growing startups are becoming serial acquirers, buying smaller companies to fill product gaps, enter new markets and bring specialized teams in-house, a review of Crunchbase data shows. While AI giant OpenAI is by far the busiest of these buyers, well-funded startups in legal tech, customer service and software development have…

HPC AI infrastructure is no longer a parallel track to traditional computing. They are merging into a unified computing foundation that the supercomputing world has been building toward for years. The same infrastructure once reserved for national laboratory modeling and simulation has become the foundation for enterprise AI factories, and agents are already running scientific…

By Ron Honig Acquisitions are reshaping the technology industry. Venture-backed AI companies acquired 195 AI startups this year through late September, already exceeding the total for all of 2025, Crunchbase data shows. For investors and founders, such acquisitions can represent major financial milestones. For employees holding equity compensation, a transaction can also change personal financial…