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Microsoft has released emergency out-of-band updates for Windows 11 and Windows 10 to fix Remote Desktop Services instability, Hyper-V folder-sharing failures with Linux virtual machines, and USB Audio breakages introduced by its record-setting September Patch Tuesday release.
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Cornelis Networks, an Intel spinoff, has closed a $205 million funding round led by IAG Capital Partners and unveiled Active Compute Fabric, an open-architecture, GPU-agnostic networking layer aimed at challenging Nvidia's InfiniBand and NVLink, alongside a strategic collaboration with Qualcomm.
Yincheng Intelligence, a Shanghai-based robotics startup building general-purpose picking robots for logistics environments, has raised nearly RMB100 million in Series A funding co-led by Huamintou and Shanghai Semiconductor Industry Investment.
EUCLYD, an Eindhoven-based semiconductor and AI-infrastructure startup, has raised over €200 million in Series A funding from investors including Samsung, EQT's Scaleup Europe Fund, Innovation Industries and imec.xpand.
Amsterdam cybersecurity startup Fortaegis has secured a $50 million Series A round to commercialise silicon-level security technology protecting AI systems, defense equipment, satellites and autonomous machines against hardware-level attacks.
A Chinese AI chipmaker backed by Tencent saw its shares triple on its Shanghai stock exchange debut, reflecting intense domestic investor appetite for homegrown semiconductor alternatives as China accelerates efforts to reduce reliance on Nvidia hardware.
Microsoft has outlined plans to reach 38 gigawatts of AI computing capacity, after bringing 88 data centre sites online in fiscal 2026 including 31 in a single quarter, as the company races to meet surging demand for AI training and inference.
Jaipur Robotics has raised Rs 47.2 crore ($4.94 million) in a seed round led by EquityPitcher Ventures and Germany's High-Tech Gründerfonds to scale its computer-vision systems that monitor waste in industrial plants.
Optical-interconnect startup Ayar Labs has raised a further $150 million, pushing its 2026 primary funding total to roughly $650 million, while establishing a new design centre in Bengaluru as it moves toward high-volume production of light-based chip-to-chip links.