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R.I.— Aug. 18, 2026—The University of Rhode Island has received $2.5 million in funding from the U.S. Office of Naval Research to advance the next phase of its Regional Innovation by Scaling Entrepreneurship initiative. RISE-UP, in collaboration with URI Innovations, reinforces URI’s leadership in translating research into technologies that support national security, economic growth, and…

ChipAgents, a US-based provider of agentic AI platforms in the semiconductor design industry, has announced an additional USD 60 million in Series A2 financing, bringing the expanded round to USD 134 million just six months after its initial Series A close, with new investor B Capital joining Bessemer Venture Partners, Micron, MediaTek, Ericsson, ScOp, and…

In 2026, ChangXin Memory Technologies (CXMT), China’s leading domestic memory and artificial intelligence (AI) computing chip company, successfully entered the capital markets, setting a new record for the market capitalisation of a listed company in China’s semiconductor and AI hardware sectors. This marks one of the most symbolic events in the recent capitalisation of China’s…