London – – September 25, 2026 -- Nscale Limited has closed a $3.36 billion convertible loan note financing led by Third Point, with NVIDIA committing an additional $1 billion tranche expected to fund in mid-November 2026.

Nscale secures $2.36 billion at initial closing, with NVIDIA's $1 billion tranche to follow

The financing structure splits into two tranches: a $2.36 billion initial close and a subsequent $1 billion commitment from NVIDIA. Goldman Sachs & Co. LLC acted as placement agent for the round.

London and Boston – September 24, 2026 -- Basecamp Research has closed a $140 million oversubscribed Series C financing to train new EDEN foundation models and push a pipeline of AI-designed therapeutics toward clinical development.

Seoul – September 21, 2026 -- LG Energy Solution said its Battery Energy Storage System (BESS) has qualified as NVIDIA DSX Ready BESS, a designation reserved for partner products meeting NVIDIA's DSX reference design requirements for AI factory power infrastructure.

Chattanooga – September 20, 2026 -- EPB has launched the IonQ Forte Enterprise quantum computer at its EPB Quantum Center, creating what the utility calls America's first commercial hub combining quantum computing and networking under one roof.

Boston – September 19, 2026 -- Seventy-eight percent of U.S. utility innovation leaders are now deploying or operationalizing artificial intelligence to manage interconnection demand, as AI data centers strain power grids nationwide, according to National Grid Partners' third annual Utility Innovation Survey.

Pasadena, Calif. – September 19, 2026 -- PrismML has released Bonsai 2 27B, a ternary-compressed version of a 27-billion-parameter multimodal model that runs at just 5.9 GB while retaining 98.2% of its full-precision counterpart's benchmark performance.

Ternary compression shrinks memory footprint by more than 9x

Built on Qwen3.8 27B, Bonsai 2 27B reduces the model's memory requirement to 5.9 GB, a reduction of over nine times compared with the full-precision original. The model contains 27.8 billion parameters and was trained using Google v5 TPUs.

Fremont – September 19, 2026 -- Delta Electronics announced a system-level infrastructure approach to accelerate deployment of AI factories built on the NVIDIA DSX AI Factory Platform, integrating power delivery from onsite energy sources down to the chip level to raise token output per megawatt.

Amsterdam – September 18, 2026 -- SDMC (00901.HK) has been selected for Google Cloud's Proactive Physical AI Acceleration Program, deepening a partnership aimed at deploying real-world AI Home services through operator networks.

Toronto and Tel Aviv – September 17, 2026 -- Qedma Quantum Computing has integrated its QESEM error mitigation software with NVIDIA's CUDA-Q platform, giving users the ability to run larger and more complex quantum workloads on Quantinuum hardware without altering existing programming workflows.