Why investors are going gaga over solid-state transformers

The technology promises to replace several parts of the grid with one device that’s both controllable and updatable.

An AI data center boom is fueling Redwood’s energy storage business

Redwood Materials says its new energy storage business is the fastest growing unit within the company.

Bug in student admissions website exposed children’s personal information

Ravenna Hub, which lets parents apply and track the status of their kids’ applications across thousands of schools, allowed any logged-in user to access the personally identifiable data associated with any other user, including their children.

For open-source programs, AI coding tools are a mixed blessing

AI coding tools have enabled a flood of bad code that threatens to overwhelm many projects. Building new features is easier but maintaining them is just as hard.

This former Big Tech engineers are using AI to navigate Trump’s trade chaos

Amari AI is making custom AI-powered software that helps customs brokers modernize and minimize constantly shifting trade policies.

Freeform raises $67M Series B to scale up laser AI manufacturing 

“I think we’re the only quote-unquote manufacturing company out there that has H200 clusters in a data center on site.”

Canva gets to $4B in revenue as LLM referral traffic rises

The creative company’s monthly active users increased 20%, growth that was partially propelled by adoption of its AI tools.

DG Matrix raises $60M to make data center power smarter

The startup is making solid-state transformers capable of intelligently aggregating power from a number of different sources before sending it to data center racks.

Climactic launches hybrid fund to get startups through the ‘valley of death’

The new project, called Material Scale, will initially focus on climate tech startups in the apparel industry.

Running AI models is turning into a memory game

When we talk about the cost of AI infrastructure, the focus is usually on Nvidia and GPUs — but memory is an increasingly important part of the picture.