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According to TechCrunch, AI infrastructure company Cornelis announced the completion of a $205 million funding round led by IAG Capital Partners. The company also launched Active Compute Fabric networking technology, designed to improve communication efficiency between AI chips and reduce GPU idle time caused by waiting for data transmission.
OpenAI has acquired smartphone camera technology company Glass Imaging for more than $300 million. The company was founded in 2019 and had previously raised approximately $30 million in cumulative funding.Glass Imaging was founded by former Apple engineers Ziv Attar and Tom Bishop, who had previously led Apple's Portrait Mode development team. Glass Imaging primarily uses neural networks to optimize camera systems for different smartphones, directly enhancing image quality during the shooting process to overcome the physical size limitations of phone cameras.As of the time of publication, OpenAI has not responded to requests for comment. Multiple market reports indicate that OpenAI is developing its own hardware products, including smartphones, earphones, and AI companion devices. (TechCrunch)
Odaily News: The Smarter Web Company has announced plans to launch the UK's first Bitcoin-backed preferred shares, subject to shareholder approval. The company expects to raise $20 million to $34 million through a potential IPO, to be used for increasing its Bitcoin holdings and acquiring cash-flow-generating operating businesses.
According to Bloomberg, insiders said Nasdaq will invest $100 million into Payward, the parent company of cryptocurrency exchange Kraken, through its venture capital arm to continue building infrastructure that supports tokenized stock trading. The investment values Payward at $21 billion and further expands the partnership announced by both companies in March this year.
According to PRNewswire, AI fintech company Kapital has completed a new $125 million round of equity and debt financing, co-led by Tru Arrow Partners and Fasanara Capital, with participation from Cervin Ventures, Niya Partners, and Overlook Capital. Kapital leverages artificial intelligence technology to help individuals and businesses efficiently manage operations, credit, and cash flow, while promoting savings and investment through its brokerage and fund management businesses. The new funds will be dedicated to the in-depth development of its AI platform and data analytics suite, accelerating expansion in the U.S. and European markets.
According to WealthManagement, AI wealth management firm Savvy Wealth has announced the closing of a $100 million Series C funding round, bringing its valuation to $600 million. Led by Halo Fund, the round included participation from existing investors such as Thrive Capital, Industry Ventures, and Index Ventures. To date, the company's total funding has exceeded $200 million. Savvy Intelligence, Savvy Wealth’s AI-powered wealth management platform, utilizes large language models from OpenAI and Anthropic to train AI agents that support the integration of investment, tax, and financial planning data, streamlining wealth management processes through AI. The newly raised funds will be primarily directed toward expanding the development of software products tailored for wealth advisors.
According to Reuters, AI data center optical interconnect company iPronics announced the completion of a $125 million Series B financing round, co-led by Maverick Silicon and Light Street Capital, with participation from NVIDIA, Triatomic Capital, Bosch Ventures, Catalight Capital, the European Innovation Council Fund, and others, bringing the company's total funding to $177 million. iPronics primarily provides rack-mounted optical switching equipment for AI infrastructure. Through its programmable optical layer, it enables AI clusters to dynamically adjust network connections in real time according to training and inference workloads. The new capital will be used to scale operations and accelerate commercial deployment.
Binance Futures announces the listing of multiple USDT-M perpetual contracts for traditional financial assets on September 7, 2026. The BYDUSDT contract will list at 10:00 (UTC+8) on that day, with BYD Company Limited H-shares as the underlying asset. The HK0992USDT Quanto perpetual contract will list at 10:05 (UTC+8), with Lenovo Group Limited as the underlying asset.
According to Bloomberg, a fund under Blue Owl Capital led a $2.4 billion debt financing to support cloud computing provider Iren’s purchase of Nvidia Blackwell Ultra GPUs for its Canadian data center campus. The financing consists of a $1.2 billion senior secured term loan and an equal amount of senior secured notes, with a structure that allows Iren to procure the equipment in phases over a set period. Pacific Investment Management Company is also one of the guarantors for the financing. Documents show the facility carries a 9% interest rate and has a tenor of two and a half years.
According to Reuters, AI data center power infrastructure company Emerald AI announced the closing of its $150 million Series A funding round, valuing the company at $1.05 billion. Co-led by Energize Capital and DCVC, this round brings Emerald AI’s total funding raised past $220 million. Emerald AI is focused on transforming AI data centers into flexible grid resources, addressing one of the major bottlenecks hindering AI development: power supply. The newly raised capital will be used to expand global commercial deployments in partnership with AI companies, data center operators, and utilities.
NVIDIA has announced a strategic investment in AI chip startup Lancium, and the two parties will deepen their collaboration in the field of high-performance computing.
Odaily News: Bitcoin treasury company BSTR Holdings has announced an agreement with Cantor Equity Partners to terminate the business combination agreement signed on July 16, 2025. The termination is attributed to the continued valuation pressure on Bitcoin and listed Bitcoin treasury companies in the current market environment, which has led to a mismatch in the capital markets, limiting the amplifying effect of financing tools such as convertible bonds and perpetual preferred stock in Bitcoin treasury strategies. BSTR stated that it will continue to advance its institutional-grade Bitcoin asset management business once market conditions stabilize. (Businesswire)
According to Bloomberg, AI space satellite company Muon Space has announced the completion of a $250 million Series C funding round, led by Eclipse Capital, with participation from Google, Salesforce Ventures, Galvanize, Wellington Management, I Squared Capital, Woven Capital, as well as Radical Ventures and Congruent Ventures.
Odaily News, August 14 close: Shares of Space Exploration Technologies Corp. (SpaceX) closed at $140 per share, with a total market capitalization of $1.85 trillion, up 3.7% cumulatively from the offering price, successfully recovering nearly 50% of the post-listing pullback.According to recently disclosed 13F filings, as of the end of Q2 2026, Harvard University's Harvard Management Company (HMC) held total US equity positions of $4.26 billion, of which SpaceX accounted for the lion's share with 12.9351 million shares valued at $2.21 billion, representing a weight of 51.9%.The University of California system disclosed approximately $1 billion in SpaceX holdings; at the University of North Carolina system, SpaceX represents approximately 10% of the endowment fund (Odaily note: public information shows the fund is approximately $15 billion in size), primarily stemming from early joint investments with Founders Fund; Washington University in St. Louis has a holding ratio of 14%-16%, and its $13.4 billion endowment fund has benefited significantly from a direct capital injection in 2018 and indirect follow-on investments; Stanford University also holds substantial positions through top venture capital firms such as Sequoia Capital and a16z. Most of these universities entered when SpaceX was valued at only a few hundred million dollars in its early startup phase, fully capturing the valuation leap from the primary market to the secondary market, once again validating the core logic of ultra-long-term capital, exemplified by the Yale model, enhancing returns through venture capital. (Interface News)Previously reported: Harvard University holds a heavy position of $2.2 billion in SpaceX stock.
据 Solana Company（NASDAQ: HSDT）官方公告，公司公布 2026 年第二季度财务业绩。本季度实现营收 250 万美元，同比大幅增长，主要由 SOL 质押收入驱动，上半年累计营收达 610 万美元。毛利率约 97%。 运营层面，公司完成东京首个机构验证器集群部署，推进 Pacific Backbone 亚太基础设施扩张计划；与 Jito 基金会达成战略合作；与哈萨克斯坦阿拉套市签署区块链基础设施合作备忘录；完成 PoNS 医疗设备遗留业务剥离，获得 310 万美元出售收益；并向全球机构投资者完成定向增发，净募资 790 万美元，由未来资产领投、HashKey Capital 参投。 财务方面，本季度净亏损 3030 万美元，每股亏损 0.38 美元，亏损扩大主要源于数字资产已实现亏损 2540 万美元及 PoNS 剥离相关遣散费 680 万美元。截至 2026 年 6 月 30 日，公司总资产为 1.761 亿美元，其中长期数字资产及质押仓位合计约 1.473 亿美元。
Odaily News: South Korean enterprise-grade AI data infrastructure company GraphAI has announced the completion of a 17 billion KRW (approximately $12 million) Series A funding round, led by K2 Investment Partners, with participation from A-Ventures and Jiyu Investment, as well as Quad Ventures, Kiwoom Investment, and We Ventures, who previously participated in the Pre-A round. To date, the company's cumulative funding has reached 20.6 billion KRW (approximately $14.7 million).Founded in 2022 by Min-Soo Kim, a professor at KAIST's School of Computing, GraphAI aims to provide next-generation data infrastructure for enterprise AI applications by integrating graph database, vector database, and relational database capabilities. Its Akasic platform offers an integrated solution covering enterprise data connectivity, ingestion, transformation, AI inference, and an intelligent agent (Agentic AI) execution environment. (Thelec)
Odaily Odaily News: Market maker Jane Street is repaying a $5.5 billion floating-rate loan as part of a broader restructuring of $11 billion in total debt. The company also plans to issue $14.6 billion in senior secured notes maturing in 2031, 2033, and 2036, respectively, to refinance $5.6 billion in bonds.S&P has assigned a BB rating to Jane Street's upcoming debt transaction, two notches below investment grade, citing Jane Street's "consistently strong earnings track record" while noting the growing scale and scope of its trading operations.Jane Street reported record trading revenue of $39.6 billion last year. Bloomberg previously reported that the company is in talks with institutions including Pacific Investment Management Company (PIMCO) regarding related financing arrangements. (Bloomberg)
Odaily News: TeraWulf's high-performance computing (HPC) rental revenue grew 52% quarter-over-quarter in Q2, reaching $31.9 million, continuing to expand its lead over its traditional Bitcoin mining business.HPC rental revenue accounted for approximately 71% of TeraWulf's total revenue of $44.8 million in Q2, up from 62% in the previous quarter. In comparison, digital asset revenue was roughly flat quarter-over-quarter at $12.8 million, but down significantly from $47.6 million in the same period last year. Company CFO Patrick Fleury stated on the earnings call that Q2 results reflect TeraWulf's financial structure becoming increasingly driven by long-term, contracted HPC revenue.However, the company's net loss attributable to shareholders widened to nearly $940 million in Q2, up from $427.6 million in Q1. The loss was primarily driven by a $755.7 million valuation adjustment related to Google warrants, which was impacted by the rise in TeraWulf's share price.Following the earnings release, TeraWulf's stock price fell less than 1%, but remains up approximately 47% year-to-date. Overall, the company is further transitioning from a Bitcoin miner into an AI/HPC infrastructure platform, though short-term financial performance continues to be affected by equity instrument valuations and transition costs.
Weather technology company WindBorne Systems completed a $37 million Series B financing round, co-led by Khosla Ventures and Galvanize, with a post-money valuation of $250 million.
According to TechfundingNews, enterprise-level AI agent company HappyRobot announced the completion of a $150 million Series C funding round, co-led by Prysm Capital and Eurazeo, with a16z, Base10, and Y Combinator continuing to invest. Other strategic investors include Koch Disruptive Technologies, Orange, and T.Capital under Deutsche Telekom, among others. HappyRobot focuses on utilizing AI agents to automatically handle complex, multi-step business coordination tasks, reducing manual coordination costs. Following this funding round, its total funding amount is approximately $200 million, and the company's valuation has reached $1.2 billion, officially joining the ranks of "unicorns".