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Wafer raises $40 million Series A for workload-specific AI agents

Wafer, which builds AI agents to optimize open-source models for a business's workload, has raised a $40 million Series A, according to a source cited by The Information. The company was valued at more than $200 million in the financing, the summary says. The funding follows growing interest among developers and chip designers in using AI to design and optimize AI chips.
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SonicWall reports exploited SMA1000 zero-days and releases fixes

SecurityWeek reported that SonicWall urged SMA1000 customers to patch two zero-day vulnerabilities the vendor says have been exploited. CVE-2026-83548 is a pre-authentication SSRF flaw in the Appliance Work Place interface that ca...

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Newlight raises $9 million after hydrogen-injection cargo voyage

Newlight has raised a $9 million seed round after completing what it says was its first long-range commercial voyage using a hydrogen-injection retrofit on a Lomar Shipping bulk carrier. The company said the system monitored engi...

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upGrad closes acquisition of Unacademy at $206 million valuation

upGrad has acquired Indian edtech company Unacademy in an all-stock transaction valuing it at ₹19.55 billion, or about $206 million, TechCrunch reported. Unacademy co-founder and CEO Gaurav Munjal said the deal closed Monday, near...

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Abwaab acquires Egypt's Eduact to add educator software

Abwaab has acquired Egyptian education-software provider Eduact, expanding beyond direct-to-student digital learning into tools for teachers and physical learning centres, according to the report. Financial terms were not disclose...

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