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A force multiplier for early stage startups - inspiring and investing in the future of compute.



Federal agencies are in a new phase of AI adoption, where infrastructure decisions will define long-term success. As VP of Public Sector Deep Grewal writes for @FederalNewsNet, scalable federal AI demands modern architectures built for resilience, portability, and operational independence across hybrid environments. The path to trusted AI starts with the foundation. bit.ly/4f1apZr


Today we’re excited to announce over $700 million in Series A funding to accelerate our ambitions to realize a generational leap in computing. Hark is an AI lab building the most advanced, personal intelligence in the world. We're pairing our own foundation models with bespoke hardware to create a universal interface between humans and machines. Toward this goal, we’ve raised our Series A at a $6 billion post-money valuation. In a round led by Parkway Venture Capital, demand from investors was significant and oversubscribed, with participation from NVIDIA, Align Ventures, AMD Ventures, ARK Invest, Brookfield, Greycroft, Intel Capital, Prime Movers Lab, Qualcomm Ventures, Salesforce Ventures, and Tamarack Global. With these resources at Hark’s disposal, we’re hiring some of the best talent from across the industry. We’ve also secured the infrastructure we need to bring many of our visions to life. We’ll train our next generation of models at our new NVIDIA B200 data center. We’re ambitious, but we recognize the incredible challenges ahead. We plan to amplify human capacity, autonomy, and joy with an adept, personalized AI assistant. This is a time when the right way is the hard way. And the right approach requires a blend of bespoke-crafted software and hardware. This round cements our ambitions to build the world-defining AI experiences of tomorrow. And as it turns out, tomorrow isn’t so far away.

Agentic AI changed the conversation. It’s no longer just humans interacting with models. Now models are planning, reviewing, refining, & collaborating with other models to solve complex tasks. 🎧 @SumtiJairath breaks it down in this @dcdnews ep: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/epi…


ScienceLogic's Arturo Oliver sat down with Digitalisation World to share why observability is essential for modern distributed operations and how organizations can turn disconnected telemetry into actionable insight. 🎥 Watch the full episode: bit.ly/4m1oGqE

🚀 Exciting News: Elastx supercharges its cloud with Lightbits! What does this mean for Elastx? ✨ Zero Hardware Lock-in ✨ Enhanced Resilience ✨ Lower TCO Read the full story: lightbitslabs.com/press-releases… #NVMeSSD #SoftwareDefinedStorage #CloudInfrastructure #Lightbits #Elastx

Nextdoor is now integrated with Freshpaint — and for healthcare advertisers, this changes what local at scale marketing can actually prove. 🏡 110M+ verified neighbors. High-intent local moments. Neighborhood-level attribution that connects directly to patient outcomes — inside Freshpaint’s privacy-first infrastructure. Incremental reach. No compliance risk. Real ROI. Local trust has always driven healthcare growth. Now it's measurable → blog.nextdoor.com/healthcare-mar…

Introducing GOALITOS by @LaLiga & WSC Sports ⚽️ Created by WSC Studios, GOALITOS brings LALIGA to young fans through original sports IP.




📺 New: SecurityScorecard CISO Steve Cobb spoke with CBS about the recent Canvas breach and the growing risks facing shared education platforms. 🎤 “Attackers are going to victimize these systems because there's so much data possible. What they're looking to do is beat their ROI, their mission, which is to financially harm people,” Cobb said. 🌐 The incident highlights a broader issue: when a single provider supports thousands of institutions, one breach can quickly impact an entire academic ecosystem. 🔍 Repeated attacks also raise difficult questions about visibility, monitoring, and whether enough changed after prior incidents. Watch the full interview for more insights on why proactive cybersecurity and continuous monitoring matter now more than ever: cbsnews.com/newyork/video/…

Multimodal AI is reshaping data engineering. Data prep is shifting from SQL + CPUs → inference + GPUs. Hear why in this episode from @robertnishihara, Anyscale Co-Founder na2.hubs.ly/H05q6ZC0

We taught two F.03 robots to clean a room and make a bed in under 2 minutes - fully autonomous.


Introducing Realtime TTS-2, a new generation of voice model built for realtime conversation. It is the first voice model that hears the conversation, takes natural-language voice direction, holds one voice identity across over 100 languages, and speaks like a person who is paying attention. The result is voice AI that feels as good as it sounds. Try it out: tinyurl.com/RealtimeAI Learn More: tinyurl.com/TTS-2Blog


Today, we are excited to announce that Mirantis has entered into an agreement to be acquired by @IREN_Ltd — bringing together IREN's AI infrastructure scale and Mirantis's open source k0rdent AI platform to accelerate the build-out of the open standard for AI infrastructure. Every major shift in computing follows the same pattern. A new technology wave arrives, complexity explodes, and the market eventually converges on two types of platforms: proprietary stacks built for their builders' purposes, and open standards built for the whole industry. Linux. Android. Kubernetes. In each case the open standard won — and accelerated the market in doing so. AI infrastructure is the next wave. The open standard for this era is yet to be established. That is what Mirantis and IREN are building together. Mirantis will operate independently, our mission unchanged: to continue supporting our existing customers as before, to democratise GPU consumption, and to enable enterprises and providers everywhere to deliver and consume AI infrastructure faster and more easily. What changes is the scale at which we can pursue that mission. IREN brings hundreds of thousands of GPUs — creating the largest and most robust reference implementation of k0rdent AI in the industry, available to the whole market. The validation is already there. NVIDIA has named Mirantis as one of only three founding ISV partners in its NVIDIA AI Cloud Ready initiative. IREN, Mirantis, and NVIDIA represent exactly the combination that initiative was designed for. The work has already started. This partnership accelerates it. Read the full message from CEO Alex Freedland: buff.ly/2YGCjTt
