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Yuliya Chernova / Wall Street Journal: Wonderful, which helps enterprises deploy AI, raised a $550M Series C led by Insight at a $5B valuation; investors also paid $170M for shares from employees  —  Founded just last year, the startup already has 650 employees and is expanding its forward-deployed engineering teams around the world Source link

Stephen Nellis / Reuters: Valencia-based iPronics raised $125M co-led by Maverick Silicon and Light Street, with participation from Nvidia, to develop optical circuit switch tech  —  Valencia, Spain-based startup iPronics said Tuesday that it has raised $125 million in venture capital with participation from Nvidia … Source link

Pew Research Center: Survey: 53% of US adults say they spend too much time on their smartphone and 36% say about the right amount; 70% of ages 18 to 29 report spending too much time  —  Between scrolling, notifications, and messages, smartphones can be hard to put down.  Just over half of U.S. adults say

Tyler Graham / CNET: Acer unveils its fourth-generation Vero 16 with modular elements like removable bottom covers and hinges, user-replaceable batteries and SSDs, and more  —  The company also unveils the sleekest Swift yet and a Swift Air update at IFA 2026.  —  Acer is a brand closely associated … Source link

Bloomberg: A look at Kioxia’s expansion in Japan’s Kitakami, which helped stall the city’s demographic decline and is a test of Japan’s $640B AI and chips investment plan  —  Japan is betting $640 billion on AI and chips.  But this struggling city shows the limits of that investment. Source link

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