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Another deep tech chip startup becomes a unicorn: Frore hits $1.64B
Eight-year-old semiconductor startup Frore Systems has raised a $143 million Series D, led by MVP Ventures, at $1.64 billion valuation, the companyannouncedon Monday. Frore has now raised $340 million total, the company said. Frore doesn’t make the chips themselves; it makes liquid-cooling systems for them. Founded by two former Qualcomm engineers, the company’s tech was initially created to offer air-cooling tech for phones and other small fanless electronics. The company’s focus on chips was inspired by Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang, who received a demo of the technology about two years ago,Bloomberg reported. Huang suggested they develop liquid-cooling options, the new must-have for AI chips and systems. So they did, releasing products that work with various Nvidia chips and boards. The company has also developed products for Qualcomm and AMD. AI semiconductors have been a hot area for investment. Other new unicorns in the field includeNvidia competitor Positron, which hit a $1 billion valuation in February, and Recursive Intelligence,which landed a $4 billion valuation right out of the gate. Eridu just launched, too, witha $200 million Series A round(though it declined to disclose its valuation), to build new AI networking chips. Participating investors in Frore’s latest round include Fidelity, Mayfield, Addition, Qualcomm Ventures, and Alumni Ventures, among others.
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Nvidia’s DLSS 5 uses generative AI to boost photorealism in video games, with ambitions beyond gaming
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang used the company’s keynote atNvidia GTCon Monday to introduce DLSS 5, a new version of the chipmaker’s AI graphics tech designed to make video games more realistic while using less compute power. The new DLSS 5 system combines traditional 3D graphics data with generative AI models that can predict and fill in parts of an image, allowing Nvidia’s GPUs to produce detailed scenes and lifelike characters without rendering every element from scratch. “We fused controllable 3D graphics, the ground truth of virtual worlds, the structured data … with generative AI, probabilistic computing,” Huang said during his keynote speech. “One of them is completely predictive, the other one is probabilistic yet highly realistic.” Huang said combining those two ideas — structured data with generative AI — allows developers to create content that is “beautiful, amazing, as well as controllable.” Loading the player… “This concept of fusing structured information and generative AI will repeat itself in one industry after another,” Huang said. “Structured data is the foundation of trustworthy AI.” Gaming makes up a smaller portion of Nvidia’s revenue today than it has historically, though that’s the industry that made Nvidia into what it is today. Huang framed DLSS 5’s approach as an example of a broader computing shift, suggesting the approach could extend far beyond gaming and even into enterprise computing. The billionaire executive pointed to enterprise data platforms such as Snowflake, Databricks, and BigQuery as examples of structured datasets that future AI systems could analyze and generate insights from. “In the future, what’s going to happen is these data structures are going to be used by AI, and AI is going to be much, much faster than us,” Huang said. “Future agents are going to use structured databases as well as the unstructured database, the generative database. This database represents the vast majority of the world.”
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Elon Musk’s xAI faces child porn lawsuit from minors Grok allegedly undressed
Elon Musk’s company xAI should be held accountable for allowing its AI models to produce abusive sexual images of identifiable minors, three anonymous plaintiffs argued in a lawsuit filed Monday in California federal court. The three plaintiffs want to bring a class action suit representing anyone who had real images of them as minors altered into sexual content by Grok. They allege that xAI did not take basic precautions used by other frontier labs to prevent their image models from producing pornography depicting real people and minors. The case, JANE DOE 1, JANE DOE 2, a minor, and JANE DOE 3, a minor versusX.AICorp andX.AILLC, was filed in the U.S. District Court of California Northern District. Other deep-learning image generators employ various techniques to prevent the creation of child pornography from normal photographs. The lawsuit alleges that these standards were not adopted by xAI. Notably, if a model allows the generation of nude or erotic content from real images, it is virtually impossible to prevent it from generating sexual content featuring children. Musk’s public promotion of Grok’s ability to produce sexual imagery and depict real people in skimpy outfits features heavily in the suit. The company did not respond to a request for comment from TechCrunch. One plaintiff, Jane Doe 1, had pictures from her high school homecoming and yearbook altered by Grok to depict her unclothed. An anonymous tipster who contacted her on Instagram told her that the photos were circulating online, and sent her a link to a Discord server featuring sexualized images of her and other minors she recognized from school. A second plaintiff, Jane Doe 2, was informed by criminal investigators about altered, sexualized images of her created by a third-party mobile app that relies on Grok models. A third, Jane Doe 3, was also notified by criminal investigators who discovered an altered, pornographic image of her on the phone of a subject they had apprehended. Attorneys for the plaintiffs say that because third-party usage still requires xAI code and servers, the company should be held responsible. All three plaintiffs, two of whom are still minors, say they are experiencing extreme distress over the circulation of these images and what it could mean for their reputations and social life. They are asking for civil penalties under an array of laws intended to protect exploited children and prevent corporate negligence.
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Anthropic Doubles Claude’s Usage Limits for the Next Two Weeks: Details
Anthropic is currently running a limited-time promotional event, under which it is offering all Claude users double the usage limits. The San Francisco-based artificial intelligence (AI) firm said on Sunday that for the next two weeks, users will be able to take advantage of increased rate limits across all the different interfaces of the platform. This will allow users to have longer conversations with the chatbot and have it write and analyse longer code. Anthropic's promotional event only includes end users, and the benefits are not available to Claude Enterprise users.
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How to watch Jensen Huang’s Nvidia GTC 2026 keynote — and what to expect
Nvidia kicks off its annual GTC developer conference in San Jose, California, on Monday with CEO Jensen Huang’s keynote scheduled for 11 a.m. PT / 2 p.m. ET. GTC — which stands for GPU Technology Conference — is Nvidia’s flagship annual event, running from March 16 to March 19. The chipmaker typically uses the spotlight to announce new products, champion partnerships, and lay out its vision for the future of computing. Huang’s keynote will focus on Nvidia’s role in the future of computing and AI. You can watch the two-hour address in person at theSAP Centerorlivestream the talkon the event’s website. The broader three-day event is focused on what’s coming next for AI across industries, including healthcare, robotics, and autonomous vehicles. On the software side, it’s rumored that Nvidia will release an open source platform for enterprise AI agents, dubbedNemoClaw, as originally reported by Wired. The platform would give businesses a structured way to build and deploy AI agents (software that can carry out multistep tasks autonomously) and would position Nvidia to mirrorsimilar offeringsfrom companies like OpenAI. On the hardware side, the company is also rumored to be releasing anew chip designed to accelerate the AI inference process— the process by which an AI model applies what it has learned to generate responses or make decisions, as distinct from the initial training process, which requires far more computing power. Faster, cheaper inference is widely seen as one of the last bottlenecks to scaling AI applications broadly. The chip would represent Nvidia’s latest bid to dominate not just the training market, where it already commands an estimated 80% share, but the inference market as well, where competition from custom chips built by Google, Amazon, and others is fast intensifying. There will also be a range of partnership announcements and demonstrations showcasing Nvidia’s AI capabilities across industries. Kevin Cook, a senior equity strategist at Zacks Investment Research, told TechCrunch that attendees should also expect to learn what the company plans to do with its relationship with Groq, the inference company Nvidia reportedly paid $20 billion late last yearto license its technology. There’s a lot of curiosity around this tie-up, given that Jonathan Ross, Groq’s founder; Sunny Madra, Groq’s president; and other members of the Groq team agreed to join Nvidia to help advance and scale that licensed tech.
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upGrad Signs Term Sheet to Acquire Unacademy in All-Stock Deal
upGrad will take over Unacademy through a 100% share swap
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Microsoft’s Gaming Copilot AI Assistant is Coming to Current-Generation Xbox Consoles in 2026: Report
Microsoft is reportedly planning to expand its Gaming Copilot AI assistant to the current generation consoles this year. As per the report, the Redmond-based tech giant wants to bring its artificial intelligence (AI)-powered gaming chatbot to more users and will be integrating the tool within the Xbox Series S and the Xbox Series X. Gaming Copilot has been in public testing for nearly nine months now, and it is already available on multiple non-console platforms. Additionally, a company executive has also confirmed that Xbox Mode will be rolled out to Windows 11 starting in April.
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Microsoft Reportedly Ditched Copilot Suggestions in Notifications to Reduce AI Bloat in Windows 11
Microsoft has reportedly shifted its artificial intelligence (AI) strategy for Windows 11. As per the report, the Redmond-based tech giant is not planning to ship Copilot Suggestions in notifications any longer. This feature was first previewed by the company in 2024, but it has yet to show up even in the beta build of the Windows operating system. The company has reportedly ditched the Copilot-branded feature, alongside a few others, in an effort to be more mindful about the AI experiences that will be released in Windows 11.
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Bengaluru-Based AGNIT Semiconductors Raises $2.6 Mn to Scale GaN
The startup plans to scale GaN production to one lakh units and expand into telecom and power electronics.
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Anthropic Launches Claude Architect Certification for $99 Per Attempt
The company describes the test as “a ~301 level exam for practitioners at partner companies with foundational knowledge who are ready to demonstrate deeper, applied expertise.”
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KC Ang Steps Down as Head of Tata Electronics’ Foundry Business: Report
The chip industry veteran left Tata Electronics’ foundry arm citing personal reasons as the company advances major semiconductor projects in India.
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The $1M GCC Salary Myth: Report Reveals Reality of CXO Pay
According to an UnearthIQ report, top compensation is limited to a few large centres.
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