Hardware-testing and engineering startup Nominal raises 0M at B valuation – SiliconANGLE

Hardware-testing and engineering startup Nominal raises $240M at $3B valuation – SiliconANGLE

Artificial intelligence-powered hardware-testing and engineering software startup Nominal Inc. today announced it raised $240 million in new funding led by Lightspeed Venture Partners and Insight Partners. The investment triples the company’s valuation to $3 billion, up from $1 billion cemented in March after it raised $80 million in a Series B-2 funding round. Additional major investors in the Series C round included …

Google advances agentic AI custom silicon expanding TPU family with 8tx and 8i Max – SiliconANGLE

Google advances agentic AI custom silicon expanding TPU family with 8tx and 8i Max – SiliconANGLE

Google LLC today introduced two new specialized silicon chips for artificial intelligence to its eighth-generation Tensor Processing Unit architecture family, aimed at higher compute density and secure inference. At Google Cloud Next 2026 in April, Google introduced two specialized TPUs in the same generation, 8t for large-scale training and 8i designed for real-time reasoning. At the time, the company said it released …

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang admits to having extramarital affair with suspected Chinese spy – SiliconANGLE

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang admits to having extramarital affair with suspected Chinese spy – SiliconANGLE

Nvidia Corp. said on Sunday it’s launching an “independent investigation” into reports that its founder and Chief Executive Jensen Huang had been targeted by a foreign intelligence plot, shortly after he admitted he “had been intimate” with a Singapore-based executive whom U.S. officials accuse of spying for China. In response to the allegations, the Republican-led foreign affairs and intelligence committee …