Together AI has closed an $800 million Series C at an $8.3 billion post-money valuation, led by Aramco Ventures with participation from Vista Equity Partners, General Catalyst, Emergence Capital, NVIDIA, March Capital, Pegatron, and S Ventures (SentinelOne), among others. The round is one of the largest yet for a company positioned squarely in the open source AI infrastructure layer, and it lands at a moment when the economics of running AI at scale have become a defining concern for anyone building on top of frontier models.

The 2026 conference calendar for technology and finance reflects an industry in a transitional phase — neither the expansionary euphoria of the 2021 cycle nor the contraction discipline of 2023, but something more deliberate. Capital is moving again, selectively, and the event calendar tends to follow capital. Where summits cluster, deal flow typically concentrates shortly after. Several themes organize this year’s gathering schedule. Smart urban infrastructure has matured from a speculative vertical into a procurement category — the Barcelona congress is no longer a venue for concept presentations but for municipal contracting decisions with multi-year budget lines behind them.

The confrontation between Washington and Tehran has entered a phase defined not by military action but by competing signals — each side broadcasting on frequencies calibrated for multiple audiences simultaneously, and each aware that the other is listening. Trump’s messaging to markets carries the implicit logic of resolution. By suggesting the war may end soon, he is not announcing a diplomatic breakthrough; he is managing the economic costs of prolonged uncertainty.

House Democrats are pressing Speaker Mike Johnson to restore what they describe as the longstanding bipartisan framework behind the Smithsonian American Women’s History Museum Act, arguing that a Republican-amended version of the bill undermines both the museum’s original purpose and its legislative foundation. According to a letter led by Congressman John Garamendi alongside House Democratic Women’s Caucus Chair Teresa Leger Fernández, Executive Steering Committee Members Judy Chu and Debbie Dingell, and 145 additional Democratic Women’s Caucus members and House Democrats, support for the bill now depends on Republicans reinstating the earlier bipartisan approach and pairing it again with the Smithsonian National Museum of the American Latino Act.

The border is Europe’s oldest and most contested artifact. Europe has more international borders per square kilometer than any comparable landmass. It has redrawn them repeatedly — through conquest, treaty, collapse, and negotiation — and carries the scar tissue of every revision. To understand European identity is to understand that the border is not a settled fact but a managed argument, and that the management of that argument is itself the achievement.

The Canon R100 keeps showing up in places where it almost feels out of place—night ports, tropical close-ups, flea markets, travel scenes—yet it holds its own with a kind of stubborn consistency. Not perfect, not flashy, but dependable in a way that makes you keep reaching for it. Over time, a pattern emerges: this isn’t just an entry-level camera, it’s a system that rewards experimentation, especially when paired with the right (often inexpensive) lenses.

Something has clearly shifted in the AI video space, and this funding round makes it hard to ignore. Video Rebirth, backed by AMD and a cluster of heavyweight strategic investors across Asia, has closed an $80 million round—quietly stacking another $30 million on top of an already substantial $50 million raise from late last year. But the tone here isn’t startup hype or another generative demo cycle; it feels much closer to infrastructure being laid down, almost like the early cloud days when nobody quite realized how foundational it would become.

Tea’s history begins in a haze of legend, the kind where stories feel half-mythical yet somehow fitting for a drink that has accompanied human civilization for millennia. One tale says the Chinese emperor Shen Nong was resting beneath a tree in 2737 BCE when a few leaves drifted into his boiling water, tinting it with a faint aroma. He tasted the infusion, found it refreshing, and unknowingly sparked one of the world’s most enduring cultural traditions.

The light shifts quickly that time of year, and it always seems to catch people off guard — which is part of the charm behind this upcoming workshop from Pho.tography.org. It’s a hands-on, quietly immersive day shaped around understanding light, composition, and that subtle sense of timing that turns an ordinary frame into something you actually feel. The team kept things refreshingly grounded: no long lectures, no stiff theory marathons, just real photographers guiding you through the way they actually work.

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