Bloomberg:
Sources: cloud-computing startup Fluidstack is in talks to raise ~$1B at an $18B valuation, up from $7.5B when it raised money earlier in 2026  —  The cloud-computing startup Fluidstack Ltd. is holding funding talks with investors to bring in about $1 billion at a target valuation of $18 billion …

Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch:
Google expands Personal Intelligence, which lets users connect their Google accounts for tailored Gemini answers, to India, initially for AI Pro and Ultra users  —  Google announced on Tuesday that it's bringing Gemini's Personal Intelligence feature to users in India.

Kyt Dotson / SiliconANGLE:
Nvidia announces the Ising AI models, which it says are the first open models aimed at quantum computing calibration and error correction  —  Technology and computing giant Nvidia Corp. today announced the release of Ising, the world's first open artificial intelligence model family aimed …

Zack Whittaker / TechCrunch:
Adobe patches a zero-day in Acrobat DC, Reader DC, and Acrobat 2024, which hackers have been actively exploiting for at least four months  —  Adobe has patched a vulnerability in its flagship document-reading apps, Acrobat DC, Reader DC and Acrobat 2024, that hackers have been actively exploiting for at least four months.

Kate Clark / Wall Street Journal:
Anthropic appoints Novartis CEO Vas Narasimhan to its board, its second board addition in recent months as it eyes an IPO and pushes further into healthcare  —  The startup behind the popular Claude chatbot and coding tool is eyeing a potential IPO as soon as this year