EIG’s MidOcean Energy Announces Initial Equity Raise of $1.2 billion Versus $1.0 billion Cover

WASHINGTON, March 17 (Bernama-BUSINESS WIRE) — MidOcean Energy (“MidOcean” or the “Company”), a liquefied natural gas (LNG) company formed and managed by EIG, today announced an equity capital raise of more than $1.2 billion.This equity raise includes: a $500 million commitment from Idemitsu Kosan, a highly respected global energy company with…

Sukuk House: Strengthening Labuan IBFC as a Global Sukuk Structuring Hub

KUALA LUMPUR, March 17 (Bernama) — The establishment of Sukuk House by Tek Securities Ltd at Labuan International Business and Financial Centre (Labuan IBFC) marks an important milestone in the continued evolution of Malaysia’s Islamic capital market ecosystem. Soon to be officially launched next month, Sukuk House represents a dedicated platform…

​KIOXIA Achieves 4.8 Billion High-Dimensional Vector Search Database on a Single Server, with 7.8x Index Build Time Acceleration via GPUs

TOKYO, March 17 (Bernama-BUSINESS WIRE) — Kioxia Corporation today announced the successful demonstration of achieving high-dimensional vector search scaling to 4.8 billion vectors on a single server with its open-source KIOXIA AiSAQ™ approximate nearest neighbor search (ANNS) technology. Additionally, Kioxia demonstrated a significant reduction in index build time by leveraging GPU acceleration…

Helical Fusion Announces Construction Site for Phase 1 of “Helix HARUKA,” Marking Transition to Manufacturing and Assembly of Fusion Hardware

TOKYO, March 17 (Bernama-BUSINESS WIRE) — Helical Fusion Co., Ltd. (Head Office: Chuo-ku, Tokyo; CEO: Takaya Taguchi; “Helical Fusion”), a Japanese fusion energy company advancing the Helix Program and developing the Helical Stellarator for commercial fusion power plants, announced the construction site for Phase 1 of Helix HARUKA, its Integrated Demonstration…

Kioxia Announces New SSD Model Optimized for AI GPU-Initiated Workloads

TOKYO, March 17 (Bernama-BUSINESS WIRE) — Kioxia Corporation today announced the development of its Super High IOPS SSD, a new type of SSD enabling the GPU to directly access high-speed flash memory as an expansion to High Bandwidth Memory (HBM) in AI systems. The new Super High IOPS SSD, the KIOXIA GP…

Victoria Lake Joins Cushman & Wakefield as Chief Financial Officer, APAC & EMEA

LONDON, March 17 (Bernama- BUSINESS WIRE) — Cushman & Wakefield (NYSE: CWK), a leading global real estate services firm, has appointed Victoria Lake as Chief Financial Officer (CFO), APAC & EMEA. Lake is a senior executive who joins from Accenture, where she was Deputy CFO of its substantial EMEA business. Her…

H2O.ai H2OVL Mississippi Models Shatter Milestone With Over One Million Downloads Monthly – Launching Momentum Into GTC 2026

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif., March 17 (Bernama-BUSINESS WIRE) — H2O.ai, a pioneer in sovereign AI and the world’s leading agentic, highly accurate predictive AI company, today announced its openly available H2OVL Mississippi visual-language multimodal models has reached a significant milestone: surpassing over a million downloads monthly — a breakthrough moment arriving just…

Checkmarx Redefines Application Security for the Age of Agentic Development

PARAMUS, N.J., March 17 (Bernama-GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Checkmarx, the leader in agentic application security, today unveiled a new Checkmarx One platform built for the new era in AI development. As AI accelerates software creation beyond human speed and scale, traditional application security models are fundamentally misaligned. The new platform embeds agentic,…

Skild AI Expands Generalized Robot Intelligence Across Industries With ABB Robotics, Universal Robots, and NVIDIA

PITTSBURGH, March 17 (Bernama-GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Skild AI, a pioneer in building generalized robot intelligence for any embodiment, today announced expanded collaborations with NVIDIA, ABB Robotics, and Teradyne Robotics’ Universal Robots (UR) and Mobile Industrial Robots (MiR) to deploy its AI-powered robot brain across multiple industries and applications. The company’s technology…

Bitdeer Launches SEALMINER DL1 Air: Achieving 149 J/GH Power Efficiency and 25 GH/s for Scrypt Mining

SINGAPORE, March 17 (Bernama-GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Bitdeer Technologies Group (NASDAQ: BTDR) (“Bitdeer” or the “Company”), a world-leading technology company for AI and Bitcoin mining infrastructure, today announced the launch of its latest self-developed mining machine, the SEALMINER DL1 Air. Optimized for the Scrypt algorithm, the DL1 Air provides a robust, industrial-grade solution…