Holyvolt raises $45M for AI battery-material tools
Holyvolt, which develops AI tools for making and testing new battery materials, raised $45M from investors including Zone II and CC.VC, Fortune reported. A source cited by Fortune put the company's valuation at $245M. The financi...
RegLayer counts 47+ disrupted US data center projects in 2026
RegLayer counts 47+ large US data center projects delayed, withdrawn or blocked in 2026, the Financial Times reports. Bernstein estimates that ~35% of the planned US data center pipeline is credible, highlighting the gap between ...
CoreWeave bond yield tops 15% as AI debt concerns grow
CoreWeave's bond yield has topped 15%, the New York Times reports, as debt concerns grow around the data center buildout. The cost of insuring SoftBank debt has also risen, while some Oracle debt trades near 80 to 90 cents on the...
MIT model links crystal structures to text to improve materials search
MIT researchers developed an AI model that combines three-dimensional atomic structures with language descriptions to identify crystalline materials matching requested properties. In a Nature Communications paper, they reported th...
Apple tightens App Store rules on nonconsensual intimate images
Apple updated its App Store rules Friday to explicitly require developers to prevent and remove nonconsensual sexual images. Developers that fail to implement adequate safeguards or remedy violations after notice may lose App Stor...
Anthropic reportedly offers Blackstone 10%+ yield for TPU financing
Anthropic is offering Blackstone a 10%+ yield to help finance a $60B debt package to buy Google TPUs, the Financial Times reported, citing sources. Blackstone would invest $9B in the debt. The high borrowing costs complicate Anthr...
