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Nscale Raises $3.36bn in Convertible Notes Led by Third Point, NVIDIA

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Nscale Raises $3.36bn in Convertible Notes Led by Third Point, NVIDIA

London – – September 25, 2026 -- Nscale Limited has closed a $3.36 billion convertible loan note financing led by Third Point, with NVIDIA committing an additional $1 billion tranche expected to fund in mid-November 2026.

Nscale secures $2.36 billion at initial closing, with NVIDIA's $1 billion tranche to follow

The financing structure splits into two tranches: a $2.36 billion initial close and a subsequent $1 billion commitment from NVIDIA. Goldman Sachs & Co. LLC acted as placement agent for the round.

Basecamp Research Raises $140M to Advance AI-Designed Cell Therapies

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Basecamp Research Raises $140M to Advance AI-Designed Cell Therapies

London and Boston – September 24, 2026 -- Basecamp Research has closed a $140 million oversubscribed Series C financing to train new EDEN foundation models and push a pipeline of AI-designed therapeutics toward clinical development.

S32 leads a syndicate spanning NVIDIA, Anthropic-adjacent backers and sovereign funds

The round was led by S32, with participation from NVIDIA, Menlo Ventures' Anthology Fund, Catalio Capital Management, European Tech Collective, Firebrand River Capital, Inception Fund, King Philanthropies, NATO Innovation Fund, PostScriptum, Redalpine, The Rockefeller Foundation, Singular, Sovereign AI and True Ventures. Andy Conrad, General Partner at S32 and former CEO of Google's Verily, joins Basecamp's Board of Directors.

LG Energy Solution BESS Wins NVIDIA DSX Ready Qualification

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LG Energy Solution BESS Wins NVIDIA DSX Ready Qualification

Seoul – September 21, 2026 -- LG Energy Solution said its Battery Energy Storage System (BESS) has qualified as NVIDIA DSX Ready BESS, a designation reserved for partner products meeting NVIDIA's DSX reference design requirements for AI factory power infrastructure.

Qualification targets AI data center power bottlenecks

The DSX Ready program certifies building blocks for NVIDIA's DSX AI Factory Platform, which unifies compute, networking, power, cooling, facilities and software for AI factories. LG Energy Solution's AC-coupled BESS meets NVIDIA's applicable AC energy storage requirements, addressing AI load smoothing, voltage ride-through and power reliability challenges that data center operators face when scaling capacity.

EPB Launches IonQ Forte Enterprise Quantum Computer in Chattanooga

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EPB Launches IonQ Forte Enterprise Quantum Computer in Chattanooga

Chattanooga – September 20, 2026 -- EPB has launched the IonQ Forte Enterprise quantum computer at its EPB Quantum Center, creating what the utility calls America's first commercial hub combining quantum computing and networking under one roof.

EPB Quantum Fellows will run grid-optimization algorithms first

Eight graduate researchers under a $4 million NIST-funded EPB Quantum Computing Fellows program will be the initial users, applying quantum algorithms to optimize local power grid circuits. The University of Tennessee at Chattanooga (UTC) will be the first external customer starting in early October when EPB Quantum Computing opens for business, followed by a project with Vanderbilt University.

78% of US Utilities Deploy AI as Grid Reliability Tops Net-Zero Priority

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78% of US Utilities Deploy AI as Grid Reliability Tops Net-Zero Priority

Boston – September 19, 2026 -- Seventy-eight percent of U.S. utility innovation leaders are now deploying or operationalizing artificial intelligence to manage interconnection demand, as AI data centers strain power grids nationwide, according to National Grid Partners' third annual Utility Innovation Survey.

Grid reliability overtakes net-zero as the industry's top concern

The survey found 74% of respondents say AI-driven data center load growth is already impacting grid reliability. When ranking organizational priorities, 73% of utility leaders placed reliability in their top three, up sharply from 43% in 2025. Net-zero goals, by contrast, fell from 54% to just 16% over the same period.

PrismML's Bonsai 2 27B Cuts AI Memory Use 9x, Keeps 98% Accuracy

Pasadena, Calif. – September 19, 2026 -- PrismML has released Bonsai 2 27B, a ternary-compressed version of a 27-billion-parameter multimodal model that runs at just 5.9 GB while retaining 98.2% of its full-precision counterpart's benchmark performance.

Ternary compression shrinks memory footprint by more than 9x

Built on Qwen3.8 27B, Bonsai 2 27B reduces the model's memory requirement to 5.9 GB, a reduction of over nine times compared with the full-precision original. The model contains 27.8 billion parameters and was trained using Google v5 TPUs.

Delta Electronics Speeds NVIDIA DSX AI Factory Rollouts with 800 VDC Tech

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Delta Electronics Speeds NVIDIA DSX AI Factory Rollouts with 800 VDC Tech

Fremont – September 19, 2026 -- Delta Electronics announced a system-level infrastructure approach to accelerate deployment of AI factories built on the NVIDIA DSX AI Factory Platform, integrating power delivery from onsite energy sources down to the chip level to raise token output per megawatt.

Delta's 800 VDC architecture cuts conversion stages and hits 98% power efficiency

The company's 800 VDC power architecture reduces conversion stages between facility power and compute, delivering up to 98% power conversion efficiency while responding to GPU load transients. High-density In-Row systems can deliver up to 800 kW in a single power rack. At the board level, Delta's 800 VDC DC-DC distribution technology steps down directly to 50 VDC or 12 VDC with peak efficiency reaching 98.5%.

Qedma Brings Quantum Error Mitigation Software to NVIDIA CUDA-Q Platform

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Qedma Brings Quantum Error Mitigation Software to NVIDIA CUDA-Q Platform

Toronto and Tel Aviv – September 17, 2026 -- Qedma Quantum Computing has integrated its QESEM error mitigation software with NVIDIA's CUDA-Q platform, giving users the ability to run larger and more complex quantum workloads on Quantinuum hardware without altering existing programming workflows.

Qedma's QESEM software enters NVIDIA's hybrid computing ecosystem for the first time

The integration marks the first availability of Qedma's error reduction software within CUDA-Q, NVIDIA's hybrid quantum-classical computing platform. The capability is currently live for Quantinuum hardware, with Qedma stating other quantum platforms will follow.

Hyundai Motor Group Activates Data Flywheel for Autonomous Driving Push

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Hyundai Motor Group Activates Data Flywheel for Autonomous Driving Push

Seoul – September 16, 2026 -- Hyundai Motor Group has put its "Data Flywheel" system into full operation, converting real-world driving data from an annual fleet of 7 million vehicles sold across the Group into continuous AI training and validation cycles for autonomous driving technology.

Group unveils dual-track roadmap combining NVIDIA hardware with proprietary Atria AI

At the "HMG Autonomous Driving Media Day" held at 42dot headquarters in Gyeonggi Province, Hyundai Motor Group detailed a dual-track strategy pairing NVIDIA-based solutions with its own Atria AI stack. NVIDIA solutions-based Level 2+ production is targeted for the first half of 2028, with Level 2++ capability following in the second half of 2028. Atria AI-powered Level 2++ vehicles are scheduled for the second half of 2029.

Telit's deviceWISE to Showcase Agentic AI Fault Recovery at IMTS 2026

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Telit's deviceWISE to Showcase Agentic AI Fault Recovery at IMTS 2026

Boca Raton, Fla. – September 15, 2026 -- deviceWISE, a Telit Cinterion company, will run three live production demonstrations at IMTS 2026 in Chicago, September 14-19, showing agentic AI that detects faults on a live robotic cell and guides automated recovery.

Three live demonstrations show layered factory automation at Booth 236475

Visitors will see visual inspection, robotic sorting and automated assembly running on the deviceWISE platform. A visual inspection station using deviceWISE Visual Intelligence will check circuit boards and other objects for defects or missing components. A robot will sort colored cubes in an agentic AI and digital twin demonstration, while a second robot performs a FANUC AI auto assembly of industrial parts.