Daily News – May 14, 2026
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Recursive Superintelligence emerges from stealth with $650M to build a new frontier AI lab, Mantle8 raises €31M for underground natural hydrogen, and Iceotope closes $26M for precision liquid cooling dedicated to AI infrastructure and HPC.
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Recursive Superintelligence
Recursive Superintelligence is a British frontier AI lab founded by former leaders from DeepMind, OpenAI, Meta AI, and Salesforce AI, with the goal of building AI systems capable of improving themselves autonomously — so-called recursive self-improvement.
Mantle8
Mantle8 develops proprietary geological exploration technologies to locate and access natural hydrogen deposits underground — a potentially abundant clean energy source not yet commercially extracted at industrial scale.
Iceotope
Iceotope develops precision liquid cooling systems that replace air cooling in high-density data centers, reducing energy consumption and operating costs for AI, HPC, and edge computing deployments.