Circle Raises $222M for Arc Blockchain at $3B Valuation

Besxar is building semiconductor manufacturing capacity in orbit by launching advanced chip fabrication equipment aboard SpaceX Falcon 9 rockets. The company plans to manufacture products in space and return them to Earth, positioning itself as an alternative to limited existing options like the International Space Station. This represents a novel approach to leveraging microgravity for semiconductor production at scale.

AWS has published a technical guide for building a CI/CD quality gate that automatically evaluates AI agents deployed on Amazon Bedrock AgentCore runtime and blocks pull requests when performance regresses. The post covers a complete reference implementation including agent deployment, MCP server integration with OAuth protection, role-based access control, and automated evaluation using the AgentCore Evaluate API. The approach uses GitHub Actions to run on-demand evaluations with built-in LLM-based scorers that assess agent behavior across dimensions like helpfulness and tool selection accuracy.

Google Cloud announced a partnership with Accenture to accelerate enterprise AI deployment, positioning forward-deployed engineers from Accenture to help customers implement AI solutions. The deal reflects Google Cloud's effort to compete in the enterprise AI market where deployment remains a significant bottleneck. Accenture's on-site engineering resources aim to bridge the gap between AI capability and real-world adoption.

Hannah Earley, 31, is leading Vaire Computing to commercialize reversible computing, a decades-old theoretical approach that recovers energy typically wasted as heat in chip calculations. The company achieved a key milestone last year by demonstrating a chip with a resonator that recovered more energy than it consumed, moving the concept from theory toward practical implementation. Reversible computing could significantly improve energy efficiency in data centers, laptops, and phones by retaining intermediate calculation data rather than erasing it, avoiding the energy loss that occurs during conventional chip operations.