China's EVAS Intelligence raises nearly RMB 2B for RISC-V AI chips
EVAS Intelligence raised nearly RMB 2 billion (about $280M), announced Sept 18, 2026, at a post-money valuation near RMB 15 billion from 20+ investors including SMIC Capital and Hu…
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Crusoe raises $3.9B Series F at $30.9B valuation for AI infrastructure
Crusoe closed the initial tranche of a $3.9 billion Series F on Sept 17, 2026 at a $30.9 billion post-money valuation, co-led by Atreides, Mubadala Capital and Valor Equity, with N…
IndiaAI Mission puts 38,000+ subsidised GPUs within reach of DPIIT startups
MeitY's official update (page last updated 16 September 2026) confirms that more than 38,000 GPUs for the common compute facility have been onboarded through the AI Compute Portal…
Factory raises $200M at $5B valuation for its AI coding agents
AI software-engineering startup Factory raised $200 million at a $5 billion valuation on Sept 16, 2026, roughly tripling the $1.5B valuation from its $150M Series C five months ear…
Arcee AI hits $1B+ valuation with $150M Series B for open-weight models
Arcee AI announced a $150M+ Series B on Sept 16, 2026 valuing it above $1 billion, led by Vista Equity, Cambium and Emergence with Hitachi, Wipro and M12. It built its Trinity mode…
Google opens Home MCP so AI agents can control smart-home devices
On September 16, 2026, Google launched early access to Home MCP, a Model Context Protocol server that lets any MCP-capable agent (Antigravity, Claude, and others) monitor devices,…
Impulse Space adds $308M Series D extension, round now totals $808M
Impulse Space announced a $308 million Series D extension on Sept 16, 2026, bringing the round to $808 million at a $5.6 billion valuation, with Lux Capital, DFJ Growth and Valor E…
Apple opens English public beta of rebuilt, Gemini-powered Siri
On September 15, 2026 Apple opened the English public beta of its rebuilt Siri, powered by custom models built with Google Gemini and split between on-device and Apple's Private Cl…
Perplexity ships on-device Portable Computer agent in its Windows app
On September 15, 2026 Perplexity launched a local AI agent in its Windows app for Nvidia GeForce RTX and RTX PRO GPUs with at least 24GB of VRAM. The model, agent harness, orchestr…
Scotland's iGii raises £22.7M for 3D carbon nanomaterial sensors and batteries
Stirling-based iGii announced £22.7M in total funding around September 15, 2026, split between £11.7M equity and £11M public support, from the Scottish National Investment Bank, Ar…
Brussels' Chift raises EUR 10.5M for a unified API to 120+ business finance systems
Chift raised a EUR 10.5 million Series A led by BlackFin Capital Partners, announced September 14, 2026. Its unified API connects business software to more than 120 financial syste…
Temporal raises $550M Series E at $12.55B for reliable AI infrastructure
On September 14, 2026, durable-execution platform Temporal announced a $550M Series E at a $12.55B valuation, co-led by Lightspeed with Wellington, Goldman Sachs Alternatives, and…
Cornelis Networks raises $205M for AI networking to rival Nvidia
Cornelis Networks raised $205 million led by IAG Capital Partners, announced Sept 14, 2026, alongside its new Active Compute Fabric and a collaboration with Qualcomm. The Intel Omn…
EU Data Act data-access obligations now apply as of September 12, 2026
The core data-access and data-sharing obligations of the EU Data Act became applicable on September 12, 2026. The rules give users of connected products and related services the ri…
Innovate UK opens Battery Innovation Programme Round 3 with up to GBP 25m
On 11 September 2026 Innovate UK opened Round 3 of the Battery Innovation Programme, offering a share of up to GBP 25 million across its Concept Development and Feasibility Studies…
Defense startup Mach Industries raises $600M Series C for unmanned systems
Mach Industries raised a $600 million Series C led by Ribbit Capital and Sequoia Capital, reported in Crunchbase's week-ending September 11, 2026 roundup. The company builds defens…
Anthropic adds auto permission mode to Claude Managed Agents
On September 10, 2026 Anthropic shipped an 'auto' permission policy for Claude Managed Agents that lets the server evaluate each agent or MCP tool call and run it, deny it, or paus…
Positron AI raises $875M for memory-first AI inference chips
Positron AI announced $875 million on September 10, 2026, split into a $375 million Series C and a Series C-1 of up to $500 million, at a roughly $5 billion valuation. The round, b…
DeepSeek ships V4.1 Flash at $0.15 per million input tokens
DeepSeek released V4.1 Flash on September 10, 2026, priced at $0.15 per million uncached input tokens and $0.60 per million output tokens off-peak (double during 01:00-04:00 and 06…
Paris-based Arlequin AI raises EUR 28M for LLM-alternative topological neural networks
Arlequin AI closed a EUR 28 million Series A on September 10, 2026, co-led by redalpine and OTB Ventures with Bpifrance's Defence Innovation Fund and Xavier Niel joining. Its topol…
Australia's Metacognition AI raises $10M for an AI operating-system layer
Australian lab Metacognition AI announced a roughly $10 million round on September 10, 2026, led by CSIRO-backed VC Main Sequence. It is building an operating-system layer that sit…
Enigmata raises $6.5M to run AI on encrypted data
Nashville-based Enigmata emerged from stealth on September 10, 2026 with a $6.5 million seed round led by Blockchange Ventures. Its Cipher system lets AI models train, search and a…
India's QNu Labs raises Rs 200 crore Series A1 for quantum-safe security
On September 9, 2026 Bengaluru-based QNu Labs raised a Rs 200 crore (about $24M) Series A1 plus a Rs 150 crore convertible facility. The company builds quantum-safe cybersecurity a…
Japan's Algomatic Dynamics lands 5B yen for physical-AI robotics
On September 9, 2026 Tokyo-based Algomatic Dynamics announced a 5 billion yen (about $34M) first financing to build robotics and physical AI, including motion-data collection and d…
UK's CloudNC raises $20M for AI-driven CNC machining
UK-based CloudNC raised $20 million on September 9, 2026, from Nimble Ventures, Calculus VC and LM Ventures. Its software uses AI to automate programming for CNC precision-machinin…
Mistral AI raises record 3B euro Series D led by Samsung at 21B euro value
France's Mistral AI closed a 3 billion euro (about $3.5B) Series D led by Samsung Electronics on September 8, 2026, with co-leads EQT's Scaleup Europe Fund and PSG Equity, lifting…
OpenHands 1.0 ships production self-hosted coding agent at 68% SWE-bench Verified
The open-source autonomous coding agent OpenHands reached its 1.0 release on September 8, 2026, adding Docker sandboxing, built-in security policies, resource limits and a plugin s…
Cognition raises $2B at a $48B valuation for its Devin coding agent
On September 8, 2026 San Francisco-based Cognition AI closed a $2 billion Series E at a $48 billion valuation, led by Andreessen Horowitz, Accel, Founders Fund, General Catalyst an…
OpenAI launches GPT Image 2.5 with faster Flare and Sunburst APIs
On September 8, 2026 OpenAI released GPT Image 2.5, exposing two developer APIs: Flare, its fastest model generating high-quality images at two to four times the speed of GPT-Image…
Stoke Space closes first $1B of Series E for fully reusable rocket
Stoke Space announced an initial $1 billion close of its Series E on September 8, 2026, with Point72 Ventures and Spark Capital involved, bringing total funding to about $2.3 billi…
Pixxel raises $100M Series C led by Temasek to scale hyperspectral satellites
On September 7, 2026, Earth-observation startup Pixxel announced a $100 million Series C co-led by Temasek and Seraphim, with 360 ONE Asset, IMM Investment, Radical Ventures, and g…
Federal SBIR/STTR fall deadlines cluster before FY-end Sept 30
Non-dilutive SBIR/STTR grant deadlines fall this month, with the next standard NIH SBIR/STTR due date on Sept 8, 2026 and multiple DoD and Air Force FY2026 Release 2 topics closing…
Anthropic's Claude produces first computer-checked proof of Fermat's Last Theorem
Announced September 4, 2026, Anthropic says Claude ran largely autonomously for 11 days to produce the first end-to-end, computer-checked proof of Fermat's Last Theorem in Lean. Th…
Gimlet Labs raises $300M Series B at $3B for multi-chip inference
Gimlet Labs closed a $300 million Series B on Sept 4, 2026 at a $3 billion valuation, led by Andreessen Horowitz with Arm, Samsung Ventures, and Microsoft's M12 among backers, brin…
GitHub Copilot adds parallel agent sessions and a unified Copilot experience
In its September 4, 2026 changelog, GitHub added parallel agent sessions to the Copilot app, letting multiple AI tasks run independently in separate Git worktrees, and introduced a…
GitHub ships Project HydraFusion, a multi model coding preview in Copilot CLI
GitHub launched Project HydraFusion as a research preview in the Copilot CLI on September 4, 2026, dynamically orchestrating multiple AI models and picking one of three execution p…
Nvidia agrees to buy AI hub Hugging Face for about $13B
Nvidia announced on Sept 3, 2026 a definitive deal to acquire Hugging Face for roughly $12.93 billion, pledging to keep it an open platform where Nvidia compute is not required. Hu…
Google DeepMind launches WeatherNext 3 with hourly 5km AI forecasts and API
Google DeepMind and Google Research launched WeatherNext 3 on September 3, 2026, generating 15-day probabilistic forecasts initialized hourly at up to 5km resolution across 64 ense…
Auckland space startup Outlier Space raises NZ$10.5m pre-seed
Auckland orbital-manufacturing startup Outlier Space, founded by ex-Rocket Lab engineer Jamie France, announced on 3 September 2026 that it raised NZ$10.5 million (about US$7.35 mi…
China issues 2026 to 2030 SME plan; targets 22,000 little giant firms, phase 2 national fund
On September 3, 2026, ten Chinese government departments led by MIIT jointly issued a plan for high-quality SME development over 2026 to 2030. It targets 22,000 national little gia…
One North Carolina Small Business Program awards $2.4M; FY2027 solicitations open mid-September
North Carolina awarded more than $2.4 million across 50 grants to 46 small businesses commercializing new technologies, with Incentive and Matching grants tied to federal SBIR/STTR…
OpenAI ships GPT-6 Astra with 1M+ context at $10/$50 per million tokens
OpenAI released GPT-6 Astra (API id gpt-6-astra) on Sept 3, 2026, priced at $10 per million input tokens and $50 per million output, with cached input at $1. It carries an ~1.1M-to…
Crusoe raises over $3B at a $30B valuation for AI data centers
AI infrastructure and cloud provider Crusoe raised more than $3 billion on Sept 3, 2026 at a roughly $30 billion valuation, co-led by Atreides Management and Valor Equity Partners…
Resect AI raises $25M to build an accountability layer catching LLM hallucinations
Seattle stealth startup Resect AI announced a $25M seed/Series A round on Sept 3, 2026 from undisclosed investors. The company is building an 'AI accountability layer' that detects…
New Zealand's Outlier Space raises NZ$10.5M pre-seed for orbital manufacturing
Auckland-based Outlier Space announced a NZ$10.5 million (about US$7.35M) pre-seed on Sept 3, 2026, backed by GD1, Airtree, Side Stage Ventures, and Investible. The startup aims to…
Munich's Zeit AI raises EUR 5M seed for autonomous data engineering
Zeit AI, based in Munich, raised a EUR 5 million seed round on Sept 3, 2026 with backing from Y Combinator, Oxford Seed Fund, a Sequoia Capital scout fund, ACE Ventures, and Hasso…
Ultrahuman raises $70M to turn its smart ring into a computer
Bengaluru-based Ultrahuman raised $70 million ($65M equity, $5M debt) on Sept 3, 2026 at a $365 million valuation, led by Qualcomm Ventures with Labcorp, Alpha Wave, Blume Ventures…
Anthropic ships Claude Fable 5.1 and Mythos 5.1, cutting agent costs ~45%
On September 2, 2026 Anthropic released Claude Fable 5.1 (broadly available) and Mythos 5.1 (restricted to vetted organizations), citing about 45% lower costs for agentic workloads…
Photonics chip startup iPronics raises $125M led by Nvidia for AI data centers
On September 2, 2026 Spanish semiconductor startup iPronics announced a $125 million funding round led by Nvidia and other investors. The capital backs its programmable photonic ne…
Google's Gemini 3.8 Flash launches at $0.75/$3.75 per million, doubling in 2027
Google released Gemini 3.8 Flash on Sept 2, 2026 with a 1,048,576-token context window, priced at $0.75 input and $3.75 output per million tokens through Dec 31, 2026. The rate is…
CrowdStrike launches SafeMind dual-model agentic security system at Fal.Con 2026
At Fal.Con 2026 on September 2, 2026 CrowdStrike introduced SafeMind, pairing an offensive model, Red Tempest, trained on 15 years of incident-response data to probe for attack pat…
Meta ships Muse Spark 1.3, cutting tool calls ~20% and tokens ~25%
Meta released Muse Spark 1.3 on Sept 2, 2026 at $1.25 input and $4.25 output per million tokens with a 1,048,576-token context window, claiming roughly 20% fewer tool calls and 25%…
Google, Anthropic and OpenAI gate top cyber AI models behind vetted-access programs
In early September 2026, the three labs restricted their most cyber-capable models to trusted-defender programs: Google's Fairwind (Gemini 3.8 Flash Cyber, over 650 partners includ…
Wonderful raises $550M at $5B valuation for its enterprise AI agent OS
Wonderful raised a $550 million Series C led by Insight Partners at a $5 billion valuation, more than doubling its value in under six months. Its AI operating system coordinates ag…
AIR Security launches with $50M to firewall the AI agents enterprises deploy
AIR Security emerged from stealth in early September 2026 with $50 million raised across two rounds in six months (Sequoia led a $10M, Greenoaks led a $40M). Its inline firewall sc…
Innovate UK opens GBP 12m advanced materials R&D fund, closes 28 Oct 2026
Innovate UK opened the National Materials Innovation Programme CR&D Round 1 on 1 September 2026, offering UK registered businesses a share of up to GBP 12 million for collaborative…
3D-AI maker Tripo (VAST) raises ~$446M Series B for foundation models
On 1 September 2026 VAST, developer of Tripo AI, announced roughly 3 billion yuan (~$446 million) across Series B and Series B+ rounds led by MPCi, with backers including Perfect W…
SciFin raises $44M seed for an enterprise AI context layer
On 1 September 2026 SciFin announced a $44 million seed round led by Altimeter and Madrona for an enterprise AI context layer that connects customer and forecasting data so AI syst…
Nvidia invests $3.5B in MediaTek convertible bonds to expand NVLink Fusion
On August 31, 2026 Nvidia agreed to buy $3.5 billion of MediaTek convertible bonds, the bulk of a broader $3.9 billion offering (Alphabet also participated), deepening their AI-chi…
DeepSeek ships experimental V4-Flash-Vision multimodal model on Hugging Face
On August 31, 2026 DeepSeek published V4-Flash-Vision-Exp, a roughly 305B-parameter experimental multimodal model, on Hugging Face under the permissive MIT license. It shows substa…
EuroHPC signs 387.8M euro contract for LUMI-AI supercomputer in Finland
On Aug 31, 2026 the EuroHPC Joint Undertaking signed a 387.8M euro contract with Bull to build LUMI-AI, powered by AMD Instinct MI430X GPUs and 6th-gen EPYC CPUs at CSC in Kajaani,…
Sydney anti-scam AI startup Apate.AI raises A$11.4M seed
Sydney-founded Apate.AI raised A$11.4 million (about US$8.15 million) in a seed round announced 31 August 2026, led by Silicon Valley's Lobby Capital with OIF Ventures, Investible,…
NZ R&D Career Grant reopens: up to NZ$35k to hire a PhD or Masters grad
New Zealand's R&D Career Grant, administered by MBIE Innovation Services, reopened for applications at 9am on Monday 31 August 2026. It funds six months of full-time salary (minimu…
S-Transistors raises 2.6M euro pre-seed for superconducting quantum control chips
Finland-based S-Transistors (Espoo) raised a 2.6M euro pre-seed round on Aug 31, 2026, led by Lifeline Ventures with an angel investor. The company builds superconducting transisto…
Huawei Cloud opens CodeArts Agent coding platform to international users
On Aug 28, 2026 Huawei Cloud moved CodeArts Agent from public beta to general availability across Asia Pacific, launching commercially in Singapore. The platform orchestrates 16 sp…
Tencent open-sources Hy4, a 770B model with 1M context under Apache 2.0
On August 28, 2026 Tencent released and open-sourced its Hunyuan Hy4 preview: a 770B-parameter Mixture-of-Experts model activating 49B parameters per token, with a 1-million-token…
NVIDIA ships TensorRT Model Connect: Hugging Face checkpoint to C++ in two commands
On Aug 28, 2026, NVIDIA released TensorRT Model Connect, an open collection of reference implementations that turns a Hugging Face or local checkpoint into native C++ inference wit…
Hugging Face launches Microduck, a $399 open-source bipedal robot
On Aug 28, 2026 Hugging Face launched Microduck, a $399 open-source bipedal robot with 15 motors, a camera and lidar, targeting first deliveries before Christmas in North America a…
Alibaba Cloud opens two Brazil data centers, expanding to 106 zones across 31 regions
On Aug 28, 2026 Alibaba launched two data centers in Brazil, expanding its cloud footprint to 106 availability zones across 31 regions worldwide. The move deepens low-latency cloud…
OpenAI, Anthropic, Google and 100+ firms urge joint defense against AI cyberattacks
On Aug 27, 2026 more than 100 companies including OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, Microsoft, CrowdStrike, Okta and Fortinet signed an open letter warning that AI-enabled cyberattacks wi…
Agentrys raises $24.5M for AI agents that verify semiconductor engineering
On Aug 27, 2026 Agentrys announced $24.5M in combined seed and pre-seed funding, led by Etna Capital with MediaTek participating, to build AI agents for semiconductor verification…
Transfyr launches with $25M seed from General Catalyst for 'physical AI' in labs
On Aug 26, 2026 Transfyr launched with $25M in seed funding led by General Catalyst, with Lux Capital, Breakout Ventures and others. Founded by ex-Ginkgo Bioworks AI lead Anna Mari…
Z.ai ships GLM-5.3-Flash: 1M-context multimodal coding model at ~1/10 the price
On Aug 26, 2026 China's Z.ai released GLM-5.3-Flash, a 320B-parameter (18B active) mixture-of-experts model with a 1M-token context and native image/video input, under an MIT licen…
Amazon to shut down Mechanical Turk on Sept 30, 2026
Amazon confirmed it will close Mechanical Turk (MTurk) on September 30, 2026, and is also closing SageMaker Ground Truth and Amazon Augmented AI (A2I) to new users. The moves retir…
IBM releases open Granite 4.2 models (3B–30B) under Apache 2.0
On Aug 26, 2026 IBM released Granite 4.2, a family of open models in 3B, 8B, and 30B parameter sizes with a 128,000-token context window under the permissive Apache 2.0 license. Th…
OpenAI unveils Jalapeno, its first custom inference chip, co-built with Broadcom
OpenAI announced first results for Jalapeno, its in-house AI inference ASIC co-developed with Broadcom, claiming 1.5x-1.9x higher throughput per kilowatt and 1.7x-3.6x lower end-to…
Ex-Prometheus founders launch physics-first AI processing 5T data points
Accelerated Understanding, founded by researchers who declined a Bezos-backed Project Prometheus offer (~35% stake and $2B+ committed), unveiled a physics-first AI model on Aug 25,…
Apple opens Mac Mini M6 pre-orders at $899 with on-device AI focus
Apple opened pre-orders on Aug 25, 2026 for a new Mac Mini with the 2nm M6 chip starting at $899 (16GB/256GB), plus an M5 Pro option at $1,699, shipping Sept 22. Apple highlights a…
Robotics-AI startup Generalist raises $200M, second round in two months
Generalist AI reportedly raised ~$200M led by 8VC on Aug 24, 2026, just two months after a $400M round backed by Nvidia and Bezos Expeditions. Its new Gen-1.5 model teaches robots…
Embedd raises $2.7M to cut cross-chip software-integration work
Embedd raised a $2.7M pre-seed led by Seedcamp, announced Aug 24, 2026, to build developer infrastructure that reduces the software-integration work of supporting different chip pl…
Anthropic makes Claude Enterprise Admin API GA, adds agent site limits
Around Aug 19-22, 2026 Anthropic moved its Claude Enterprise Admin API (members, invites, groups and custom roles) out of beta, dropping the required beta headers, and let organiza…
NZ R&D Career Grants reopen 31 Aug 2026: up to $35k to hire a masters/PhD grad
Innovation Services (administered by MBIE) reopens R&D Career Grant applications at 9am on Monday 31 August 2026. The grant funds six months' salary for an R&D hire — up to $30,000…
GitHub Universe 2026 set for Oct 28-29 at Fort Mason, San Francisco
GitHub published its GitHub Universe 2026 schedule on Aug 13, 2026, themed 'All together now, in the agentic era,' returning to Fort Mason in San Francisco on Oct 28-29. In-person…
IndiaAI Mission crosses 38,000 GPUs, offers subsidised AI compute to startups
In an official update dated August 11, 2026, MeitY confirmed the Rs 10,372 crore IndiaAI Mission has onboarded more than 38,000 GPUs for its common compute facility - over three ti…
Defra opens £20m automation & robotics farming R&D round, closing 30 Sep 2026
Defra's Farming Innovation Programme, delivered with Innovate UK, opened Round 2 of its Automation and Robotics R&D fund on 3 August 2026, offering UK businesses a share of up to £…
EU AI Act enforcement against general-purpose AI providers goes live
As of August 2, 2026 the European Commission can actively investigate and fine providers of general-purpose AI models under the EU AI Act. Duties include technical documentation, d…
The AI Conference returns to San Francisco Sept 29-Oct 1, 2026; tickets open
The AI Conference 2026 takes place Sept 29-Oct 1 at Pier 48 in San Francisco, gathering 5,500+ builders, researchers and leaders across tracks on agentic AI, LLMs, infrastructure a…
Brazil launches 5th Eco Invest auction to fund green-tech innovation
On July 28, 2026, Brazil's Ministry of Finance published the operational manual for the 5th Eco Invest Brasil auction, financing technology innovation in strategic ecological-trans…
Cabinet clears India Semiconductor Mission 2.0 with Rs 1.27 lakh cr, startup design grants
On July 15, 2026 the Union Cabinet approved India Semiconductor Mission (ISM) 2.0 with a Rs 1,27,500 crore outlay. It uses a grant-plus-equity model for smaller startups designing…
NZ R&D Experience Grant open now, closes 9am Mon 24 Aug 2026
Applications for MBIE Innovation Services' R&D Experience Grant opened 13 July 2026 and close at 9am Monday 24 August 2026 (or earlier if funding runs out); it subsidises hiring a…
ESA BIC UK opens next intake: up to €60k grant for space-tech startups, 28 Aug deadline
The European Space Agency Business Incubation Centre (ESA BIC UK) at Space Park Leicester reopened applications, with the next deadline at 12:00 on 28 August 2026. Selected UK star…
NSF SBIR/STTR deep-tech Phase I proposals due Nov 4, 2026
NSF's current SBIR/STTR solicitation (NSF 26-510) funds deep technologies advancing US competitiveness and security, with invited Phase I and Fast-Track full proposals due November…
US data-center vacancy hits record-low ~1.4% as power caps supply
CBRE's Global Data Center Trends 2026 reports vacancy across primary US markets at a record-low ~1.4% — Northern Virginia just 0.3% and Atlanta ~1% — with the vast majority of unde…
Innovate UK-Switzerland R&D fund: up to GBP 450k per UK firm, closes 3 Sep 2026
Innovate UK's UK-Switzerland Collaborative R&D Round 3 opened on 1 July 2026 and closes at 11:00am on 3 September 2026, sharing up to GBP 3 million (matched by at least CHF 3 milli…
Sweden orders Vinnova and Tillvaxtverket to fix deeptech funding gaps
On June 25, 2026, the Swedish government tasked Vinnova and Tillvaxtverket with analyzing how to improve capital access for breakthrough-innovation and deeptech companies. The agen…
China's Network Data Security Risk Assessment Measures take effect Aug 20, 2026
China's Cyberspace Administration (CAC), MIIT and Ministry of Public Security jointly issued the Measures for Network Data Security Risk Assessment on June 18, 2026, effective Augu…
Sweden's June 2026 bill boosts R&D deduction and expert tax relief (25% to 30%)
On 11 June 2026 the Swedish Government submitted a draft bill expanding the R&D tax deduction (FoU-avdrag) and the expert tax relief, with changes proposed to take effect 1 January…
Sweden proposes to broaden R&D employer-fee relief (FoU-avdrag) and expert tax from 2027
In a lagradsremiss published June 11, 2026, the Swedish government proposes scrapping the rule that an employee must work at least 15 hours/month on R&D to qualify for the FoU-avdr…
NSF reboots SBIR/STTR with $250M and a new $30M Strategic Breakthrough tier
NSF restarted its SBIR/STTR deep-tech program (solicitation NSF 26-510) with a $250M FY26 budget, announced May 31, 2026. It adds a Strategic Breakthrough Awards tier of up to $30M…
NSF's relaunched SBIR/STTR reopens: next Phase I pitch window Nov 4
NSF's revived SBIR/STTR program (solicitation NSF 26-510) funds deep-tech startups with up to $305,000 for Phase I over 6-18 months and up to ~$1.25M for Phase II, with roughly $21…
Budget 2026 slashes RDTI internal-software cap from $25m to $3m, adds in-year payments
Budget 2026 (delivered 28 May 2026) cuts the R&D Tax Incentive cap on non-administrative internal software from $25 million to $3 million per year, saving the Crown about $87 milli…
NZ Budget 2026: R&D Tax Incentive adds in-year payments, cuts software cap
In Budget 2026 (announced 28 May 2026), the NZ Government is changing the Research and Development Tax Incentive to introduce in-year payments, so businesses receive the 15% R&D ta…
Connecticut opens its R&D tax credit to pass-through startups, not just C-corps
A budget bill Gov. Lamont signed May 26, 2026 extends Connecticut's R&D tax credit to all entity types—LLCs, S-corps and partnerships—for tax years starting on or after Jan 1, 2026…
SBIR and STTR extended through 2031, up to $2.15M non-dilutive per project
The Small Business Innovation and Economic Security Act, signed April 13, 2026, reauthorized the SBIR and STTR programs through September 30, 2031. The programs distribute over $4…
Canada expands SR&ED: 35% credit now covers up to $6M in R&D spend
Bill C-15 (Royal Assent March 26, 2026) doubled the enhanced-rate SR&ED expenditure limit from $3M to $6M, keeping the 35% refundable investment tax credit and raising the taxable-…
Canada doubles SR&ED refundable R&D credit limit to $6M under Bill C-15
Bill C-15 received Royal Assent on March 26, 2026, doubling the SR&ED enhanced expenditure limit from $3 million to $6 million, which raises the maximum 35% refundable R&D tax cred…
Canada doubles SR&ED enhanced credit limit to $6M, up to $2.1M cash back
Bill C-15 received Royal Assent on March 26, 2026, raising the SR&ED enhanced 35% refundable tax credit's annual expenditure limit from $3 million to $6 million and widening the ta…
Finep opens R$3.3bn Mais Inovação Brasil grants; calls close Aug–Sep 2026
Finep launched a series of 13 calls under the Mais Inovação Brasil program offering R$3.3 billion in non-reimbursable economic subsidy (subvenção econômica) for innovation projects…
Finep opens R$300M agroindustry innovation grant, apply by Sept 30 2026
Finep's Mais Inovacao Brasil Rodada 2 (Cadeias Agroindustriais Sustentaveis) offers R$300 million in economic subvention (non repayable) for agroindustry, foodtech and animal healt…
CBRE: US data centers head for record 2026 leasing as power delivery becomes the limit
CBRE's 2026 US data center outlook projects another record leasing year with preleasing in the mid-70 percent range, far above the historical 40 to 50 percent norm, and vacancy at…
SR&ED enhanced 35% refund now covers first $6M of R&D spend
Canada's Budget 2025 raised the expenditure limit for the enhanced 35% refundable SR&ED tax credit from $3 million to $6 million of qualifying R&D spending per year (a two-step inc…