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...
Experimental cotton reduces microbial accumulation under hospital lighting
Experimental cotton exposed to light accumulated 75% fewer microorganisms than conventional cotton in hospital rooms, researchers at Universitat Politècnica de València reported. Samples spent 48 hours on bed rails and mattresses ...
DeepSeek documents web search and page retrieval APIs for agents
DeepSeek documents Search and Fetch APIs that give agents and applications access to live web content using existing DeepSeek API keys. Search returns structured web results from the company's own search engine; Fetch retrieves a ...
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RegLayer counts 47+ large US data center projects delayed, withdrawn or blocked in 2026, the Financial Times reports.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...