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TITAN Haptics Introduces Compact VH Module for Digital Audio-to-Haptics Integration
10.8 × 10.8 mm solder-down module combines audio-to-haptics processing and dual-channel amplification for production hardware September 1, 2026 TORONTO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--TITAN Haptics today introduced the VH Module, a compact solder-down audio-to-haptics module designed to simplify the integration of wideband haptics into consumer electronics and gaming hardware. Measuring just 10.8 × 10.8 mm and 2.29 mm tall, the VH Module combines digital audio-to-haptics processing, DSP an
Sep 1


Quintessent Raises $40 Million Series A and Begins Sampling First Product for AI Optical Interconnects
August 24, 2026 SANTA BARBARA, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Quintessent, an innovator in resilient and low-cost AI datacenter optical interconnect products, today announced it has raised $40 million in an oversubscribed Series A investment round. Quintessent also announced the start of customer sampling of its single-chip quantum dot-based DWDM comb laser – a new class of light source designed to simplify optical connectivity for rapidly scaling AI clusters. “For the past several
Aug 24


U.S. Department of Energy Selects Coreshell Technologies for $50 Million Award to Scale Domestic Battery Manufacturing with Metallurgical Silicon (MGS) Anodes
Award will fund expansion of production capacity, creating more than 100 operational jobs and strengthening U.S. supply chain independence for American mobility and defense applications SAN LEANDRO, Calif., Aug. 24, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- Coreshell Technologies announced that it has been selected by the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Manufacturing Deployment Office (MDO) for a $50 million award under the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act. The award will fund the expansi
Aug 24


OpenTug and Blessey Marine Services Partner to Modernize Invoicing and Accelerate Customer Billing
SEATTLE, Aug. 12, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- OpenTug today announced a strategic collaboration with Blessey Marine Services, Inc., a leading provider of inland marine transportation solutions, to modernize voyage invoicing through BargeOS. By implementing BargeOS Invoice Intelligence, Blessey will connect operational and financial workflows to automate invoice processing, improve billing visibility, and enhance financial transparency across its customer network. The initiative is d
Aug 12


LeBeouf Bros. Towing Completes Enterprise Deployment of OpenTug's BargeOS Platform, Advancing Digital Operations Across Its Fleet
SEATTLE, Aug. 4, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- OpenTug, the AI-native platform purpose-built for inland and coastal barge logistics, today announced the successful enterprise deployment of its BargeOS platform at LeBeouf Bros. Towing (LBT), marking an important milestone in the companies' partnership and the continued digital transformation of inland marine operations. Following a phased implementation, LeBeouf Bros. Towing has completed deployment of BargeOS across its commercial voy
Aug 4


d-Matrix Acquires Wallaroo.ai to Speed up Deployment of Heterogeneous AI Inference Workloads
Second acquisition in four months brings ease of deployment and orchestration expertise to d-Matrix's silicon-to-software data center inference stack SANTA CLARA, Calif., Aug. 3, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- d-Matrix, the pioneer in ultra-low-latency AI inference for data centers, today announced the acquisition of Wallaroo.ai, a leader in AI inference deployment and orchestration software. The acquisition brings d-Matrix the technology platform, intellectual property, and expert eng
Aug 3


Coreshell Technologies Partners with L&F to Scale Batteries Free of Chinese Materials
Coreshell's cathode active materials supply deal with L&F eliminates the final FEOC risk in the battery supply chain — giving defense suppliers, OEMs, and energy storage customers a fully China-free option SAN LEANDRO, Calif., July 10, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- Coreshell Technologies, a battery technology company, today announced an eight-year supply agreement with L&F Co., Ltd to secure a long-term supply of lithium-iron phosphate ("LFP") cathode active materials. The agreement m
Jul 10


Parasail to Combine NVIDIA AI Infrastructure with d-Matrix Accelerators to Achieve 10x Faster Token Generation
Inference service provider to deliver faster, more cost-efficient tokens by pairing NVIDIA Hopper and Blackwell GPUs with d-Matrix Corsair accelerators SAN FRANCISCO and SANTA CLARA, Calif., July 8, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- Parasail, the inference cloud for AI-native startups, and d-Matrix, a pioneer in low-latency AI inference compute platforms for data centers, today announced Parasail is deploying d-Matrix Corsair inference accelerators alongside the NVIDIA Hopper and NVIDIA B
Jul 8


d-Matrix Corsair Inference Accelerator Wins 2026 AI Breakthrough Award
"AI Processor Innovation Award" recognizes Corsair as the emerging infrastructure of choice for heterogeneous AI compute, deliver blazing fast token generation in concert with GPUs SANTA CLARA, Calif., June 25, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- d-Matrix, the pioneer in low-latency AI inference for data centers, today announced its d-Matrix Corsair™ inference accelerator is the recipient of the ninth annual AI Breakthrough Award program's "AI Processor Innovation Award." Having just entere
Jun 25


Coreshell Technologies Enters Defense Market with a Scalable, Fully Domestic Battery Platform for Defense Applications
ADS invests in Coreshell to strengthen the domestic supply chain and bring American-made batteries to the DOW DETROIT, June 16, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- Coreshell Technologies today announced its expansion into the defense market, offering the only high-performance batteries that are simultaneously scalable, mission-ready, and entirely free of Foreign Entity of Concern (FEOC) materials. The announcement comes as ADS, a leading provider of mission-critical equipment to the DOW, ma
Jun 16


Upstart chipmakers keep challenging Nvidia. This time it’s Microsoft-backed D-Matrix
Published Tue, Jun 9 2026 Katie Tarasov Key Points D-Matrix says its chips can run inference workloads 10 times faster and using five times less energy than a standalone graphics processing unit from Nvidia. Like Cerebras, D-Matrix is trying to prove it can carve out a niche in the AI chip market, which Nvidia has dominated. “This is a $1 trillion market in the making,” D-Matrix co-founder and CEO Sid Sheth told CNBC. In the increasingly competitive AI chip market, there’s an
Jun 9


Faster AI Inference enabled by 1000x Higher Scale with Delos Data™ Nonstop AI™
Delos Nonstop AI™ Product Portfolio Solves AI Interconnect Bottlenecks and Increases GPU Utilization Delos AI interconnect architecture enables faster and efficient data movement between GPUs Solves interconnect issues cluster wide for large-scale inference workloads as unified system Delos is showing the cluster and software running AI workloads at Computex PALO ALTO, Calif., May 27, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- Delos Data today announced a new cluster architecture and server design
May 27


OpenTug and Telegraph Partner to Bring Unified Visibility Across Barge and Rail Logistics
SEATTLE and CHICAGO, May 26, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- OpenTug and Telegraph today announced a strategic partnership focused on delivering integrated visibility across North American barge and rail freight networks. Inland river, import, and export terminals rely heavily on railcars and barges to facilitate the movement of goods to end users. Yet, operational planning for rail and barge traffic often happens in disparate systems with limited coordination and visibility. For termin
May 26


Kipu Quantum Makes Quantum-Enhanced AI Deployable in Production
New hybrid framework removes the single biggest barrier to enterprise adoption of quantum machine learning: the requirement to run a quantum processor for every prediction. Berlin, Germany — 20 May 2026 — Kipu Quantum today released a new hybrid quantum-classical framework that allows quantum-enhanced machine learning models to be trained on a quantum processor and deployed entirely on classical hardware — at the speed, cost and operational profile that enterprise production
May 20


d-Matrix Boosts Rack-scale AI Capabilities With Acquisition of GigaIO Data Center Business
Addition of Rack-Scale Technology, Systems Expertise and Key Engineering Talent to Accelerate Deployment of Low-Latency, Highly Efficient AI Inference at Scale SANTA CLARA, Calif., April 2, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- d-Matrix, the pioneer in low-latency AI inference compute for data centers, today announced the acquisition of GigaIO's data center business, a systems engineering organization with deep expertise in rack-scale infrastructure and high-performance interconnects. Buildin
Apr 2


Fulcrum Acquires Environmental Compliance Software Company Wildnote
By Amit Chowdhry • Feb 17, 2026 | Source: Pulse 2.0 Fulcrum has acquired Wildnote to expand its capabilities in environmental compliance and deepen its vertical expertise across regulated industries. Fulcrum, an AI-powered field process management and data collection platform, said the acquisition strengthens its ability to serve environmental services organizations by combining advanced field data capture with regulatory compliance expertise. The deal reflects Fulcrum’s stra
Feb 17


Evolver Launches SPECTRA: An AI-Powered, Self-Learning SOC Solution for Federal Missions
New managed service combines MixMode's self-supervised AI, 24×7 SOC operations, and mission-aligned automation to detect unknown threats and reduce cyber analyst fatigue RESTON, Va., Feb. 3, 2026 / PRNewswire-PRWeb / -- Evolver , a leader in cybersecurity operations and digital transformation for U.S. government agencies and Fortune 500 enterprises, today announced the launch of Evolver SPECTRA, an AI-powered, self-learning Security Operations Center (SOC) solution designed t
Feb 3


Subtle Introduces Voicebuds - Reinventing Earbuds for Personal Voice Computing
Now available for preorder, Voicebuds capture your speech below a whisper, enabling private, precise voice input in noisy and shared spaces LAS VEGAS, Jan. 4, 2026 / PRNewswire / -- Today at CES, Subtle unveiled Voicebuds , reinventing the earbud to provide voice-first productivity that works in the real world, even when you're speaking too quietly to be overheard. Until now, voice input has broken down in the places that matter most - it's too public in shared spaces and to
Jan 4


The Subtle Voicebuds use AI to transcribe your words below a whisper, or in very loud spaces (like the CES show floor)
They're earbuds built for the voice command age. By Devindra Hardawar for Engadget There's a good chance you spend more time talking to your phone's virtual assistant, or dictating text with your voice, instead of actually calling people these days. But, as convenient as voice input can be, you don't want to be the obnoxious person shouting commands to Siri or ChatGPT in a quiet library. And you probably won't have much luck dictating an email in a room with toddlers scream
Jan 4


Lucidean Raises Series Seed Funding to Accelerate Next-Gen Coherent Optical Links for Data Centers; Announces Dr. James Raring as Chief Executive Officer
SANTA BARBARA, Calif.--( BUSINESS WIRE )--Lucidean, a Santa Barbara–based AI interconnect company pioneering coherent optical links for data centers, announced that Dr. James Raring has joined as Chief Executive Officer and that the company has raised $18 million in Seed financing. The Seed funding was co-led by Entrada Ventures and Koch Disruptive Technologies (KDT), with participation from Foothill Ventures, M Ventures, Cerberus Ventures, and Raptor Group. With this Seed fu
Dec 23, 2025


D.R. Horton Bets Big On AI-powered Land Technology
America’s largest homebuilder has gone all-in on AI. D.R. Horton’s multi-year partnership with Prophetic signals a turning point for technology adoption in land acquisition—and a warning to competitors still operating in manual mode. Nov. 11, 2025 - Tyler Williams Prophetic , an AI-driven platform that automates the initial land discovery and analysis process for homebuilders and developers, just announced an organization-wide partnership with D.R. Horton. Oliver Alexander, F
Nov 11, 2025


Subtle Computing Launches from Stealth with $6M to Power a New Era of Voice Computing that Works in the Real World
Stanford-founded startup is building "subtle voice computing" – making voice AI private, precise & reliable where today's devices fail PALO ALTO, Calif., Nov. 5, 2025 / PRNewswire / -- Subtle Computing , a voice-first computing company, today announced its launch out of stealth with $6 million in seed funding to power voice AI partnerships and a consumer product launch in early 2026. The round was led by Entrada Ventures , with participation from Amplify Partners , Abstract
Nov 6, 2025


Subtle Computing’s voice isolation models help computers understand you in noisy environments
Ivan Mehta 9:57 AM PST · November 6, 2025 California-based startup Subtle Computing is tackling the problem of capturing people’s voices in noisy environments with its own voice isolation models — a technology that could benefit voice-based AI products and services. Consumer apps using voice AI are today seeing tremendous growth. AI Meeting notetakers like Granola , Fireflies , Fathom , and Read AI have received both user and investor attention. Existing companies like Open
Nov 6, 2025


Anchore and Chainguard Partner to Deliver Next-Generation Supply Chain Security
The partnership delivers a "Start Safe, Stay Secure and Compliant" posture by uniting Chainguard's hardened container images with...
Sep 24, 2025
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