New York – September 25, 2026 -- A $900 million utility-tech agreement, a $140 million biotech raise and a machine-vision acquisition topped this week's most consequential B2B disclosures distributed via PR Newswire.
Georgia Power and Google strike $900 million nuclear capacity deal
Georgia Power and Google reached an agreement projected to deliver approximately $900 million in customer benefits while expanding nuclear generation in Georgia. Pending approval from the Georgia Public Service Commission, Google will support uprates at the utility's Plant Vogtle and Plant Hatch nuclear units, adding roughly 96 megawatts of new grid capacity.
Basecamp Research raises $140 million for AI-designed therapeutics
Basecamp Research secured $140 million to advance medicines that combine frontier AI models trained on proprietary biological data with DNA-writing technology. The company is targeting diseases currently considered incurable by designing treatments intended to reprogram the body's own repair mechanisms.
Cognex acquires RealSense to enter robotic perception market
Cognex is acquiring RealSense to expand its machine vision business into robotic perception, a market the company characterizes as high-growth. President and CEO Matt Moschner said the deal combines Cognex's machine vision expertise with RealSense's technology to create what he called a full-stack visual intelligence platform spanning industrial ID, 2D and 3D measurement, and robotic navigation.
Teal Health closes $22 million Series A for at-home cervical cancer screening
Teal Health raised a $22 million Series A round, bringing total funding to $45 million, to expand access to its FDA-authorized at-home HPV cervical cancer screening product. The company cited data showing nearly one in three U.S. women are not up to date on cervical cancer screening, attributing gaps largely to physician shortages limiting in-office appointment availability.
Handshake and IBM target workforce AI readiness gaps
Handshake launched an AI Skills Studio offering project-based training missions lasting 10 to 45 minutes, pairing learners with an AI Skills Instructor to build tangible outputs such as automated workflows. Separately, a new IBM CHRO study found 71% of chief human resource officers identify supervising and overriding AI outputs as the most essential workforce skill, compared with just 29% of employees who rank judgment as important.