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Jacobs Entertainment Teases Next Phase of Reno Neon Line District

Jacobs Entertainment shared plans on May 18, 2026, for the next phase of its Reno Neon Line entertainment district following completion of the initial $400 million first phase. The expansion includes a 4,000-seat Las Vegas-style showroom, 500 units of new housing, a 55-story 600-room tower, and an encased pedestrian bridge at Fourth Street replicating the Reno Arch. Jacobs Entertainment CEO Jeff Jacobs said the company acquired the property nearly a decade ago to reimagine downtown Reno, with prior phase one elements including youth sports fields and J Resort renovations. The plans continue investments after five years of development along West Fourth Street.

Neon One Wins Silver Stevie Award for Nonprofit Customer Support Team

Neon One announced on May 19, 2026, that it won a Silver Stevie Award in the Customer Support Team of the Year category at the 2026 American Business Awards. The company reduced average ticket resolution times from 40 hours to 2 hours, a 95% improvement, and raised customer satisfaction scores from 65% to 97% by May 2026 through a U.S.-based support team in Oklahoma City and AI-enabled system ACE on Zendesk. Neon One CEO Keith Reed stated the prior support experience was unacceptable for nonprofits, and the team now resolves 38% of live messaging cases independently via ACE. Neon One previously transitioned support operations in September 2025.

Neon Commerce Raises $14 Million from Renegade Partners and Others

Neon Pays Users to Record Phone Calls and Sells Data to AI Firms

Neon Database Pricing Cuts Compute 15-25% and Storage 80% Post-Databricks Acquisition

Neon Raises Over $25 Million in Equity and Credit for Consumer Data Platform

Neon Pays Users to Record Phone Calls and Sells Data to AI Firms as #2 App

Neon Becomes Databricks Company with Serverless Postgres Roadmap Continuing

Databricks to Buy Open Source Database Startup Neon for $1B

Databricks announced on May 14, 2025, that it will acquire Neon for about $1 billion to strengthen its platform for AI agents. Neon has raised $129.6 million total with backers including Microsoft’s M12, General Catalyst, Menlo Ventures and Notable Capital. The deal combines Neon’s serverless relational database with Databricks data intelligence services. Ali Ghodsi said Neon proves four out of every five databases are spun up by code, not humans. The acquisition aims to provide developers with serverless Postgres that supports agentic speed and openness of the Postgres community.

Databricks Agrees to Acquire Neon Serverless Postgres Startup for $1 Billion

Databricks agreed to acquire Neon, the serverless Postgres database company, for about $1 billion on May 14, 2025. Neon co-founders Nikita Shamgunov, Heikki Linnakangas and Stas Kelvich join Databricks to deliver serverless Postgres at production scale for developers and AI agents. Neon raised $129.6 million previously with investors including Microsoft M12, General Catalyst, Menlo Ventures and Notable Capital. Neon’s architecture features decoupled storage and compute, instant branching and elastic scaling that supports AI agent workloads where over 80 percent of databases are created by code. Ali Ghodsi stated the acquisition gives developers a serverless Postgres that keeps up with agentic speed and pay-as-you-go economics.

Neon Guard Spotlighted as Privacy-First Age Assurance Startup in Techscaler Report

Neon Health Raises Funding to Expand AI Patient Access Automation

Neon Releases May 15 2026 Changelog with New Auth Features and Team Accounts

Neon Makes Marketing Hires and Promotions Following CMO Departure

Neon Promotes Joey Monteiro to President of Worldwide Marketing and Alexandra Altschuler to President of Media

Neon Changelog Adds Faster Writes, Snapshot Pricing, and Organization 2FA

Neon Promotes Joey Monteiro to President of Worldwide Marketing

Neon to Rebrand Software OS Versions to Year-Based Naming at NDC26

Opera Neon Ships Native MCP + CLI Connectors and Agent Features

Opera Neon Adds Native MCP and CLI Connectors for AI Agents

Neonode Reports Q1 2026 Revenue Growth of Nearly 20 Percent

Neon Ichiban Launches New iOS and Android Apps with Reader Features

Neon Partners with Palmtrees for Screenplay Development Incubator Selecting 8-10 Writers