Lumaril raises $66 million for industrial AI software
Lumaril raised a $66 million Series A at a $400 million valuation, The Wall Street Journal reported. The company develops AI software that connects to manufacturers' existing control systems to optimize industrial production on factory floors.
NeuroXess raises RMB 700 million for brain-computer interfaces
Shanghai-based NeuroXess raised RMB 700 million in Series B funding, TechNode reported. SDIC Juli, Shenzhen Capital Group and Qinzhi Capital co-led the round.
Five technology giants commit more than $3T to future spending
Alphabet, Meta, Microsoft, Amazon and Oracle have committed more than $3T to future spending on data centres, leases, equipment and energy, The Next Web reported, citing Bloomberg. Alphabet accounts for more than $1T and Meta for more than $800B.
Five tech giants cut buybacks 83% as capital spending exceeds operating cash flow
Microsoft, Alphabet, Amazon, Meta and Oracle cut share buybacks 83% to $13.6bn in the first nine months of 2026, The Next Web reported, citing a Reuters analysis of LSEG data and company reports.
GAAC preprint reports lossless cache compression and higher inference throughput
Researchers report in a preprint that GAAC, a system for compressing the stored attention data used by language models, reduces resident cache memory by approximately 26% and increases aggregate serving throughput by 13-29% under comparable cache-memory budgets.
Preprint reports up to 32% decode energy savings from GPU clock control
A preprint reports that locking a GPU's processing clock recovered up to 32% of the energy used to generate language-model output, with minimal throughput loss. Researchers tested four attention architectures on an NVIDIA H200 using vLLM eager execution.

