📅 - Global spending on cloud infrastructure services reached $102.6 billion in the third quarter of 2025, marking a 25% year-on-year increase and underscoring the sector's continued momentum, according to new research from Omdia.
The quarter represented the fifth consecutive period in which growth remained above 20%, signaling sustained demand even as enterprises navigate economic uncertainty and rising infrastructure costs. Analysts point to the rapid maturation of artificial intelligence workloads as a central driver, with organizations moving decisively from experimentation toward production-scale deployments.
The data suggests that cloud providers are entering a new phase of competition. [...][... Check source for end of article ...]
📅 - Neural Concept Raises $100M to Scale Engineering AI - Neural Concept has secured $100 million in Series C financing, a significant capital injection that underscores growing investor confidence in enterprise AI tailored for industrial engineering. The round was led by Growth Equity at Goldman Sachs Alternatives, with continued participation from existing backers Forestay Capital, Alven, HTGF, D.E. Shaw Ventures, and Aster Capital.
The funding positions the company to accelerate product development and expand its global commercial footprint as demand increases for AI systems that can be deployed at scale in complex engineering environments.
Founded to bring AI deeper into the product development lifecycle, Neural Concept focuses on what it [...]
📅 - D-Wave Brings Practical Quantum Computing to CES 2026 - D-Wave Quantum is set to make a high-profile appearance at CES 2026, where it will participate as a sponsor of the CES Foundry, a two-day program focused on emerging technologies taking place January 7 and 8 at the Fontainebleau Las Vegas.
The announcement drew investor attention, with the company's shares rising sharply following confirmation of its role at the event, reflecting continued market sensitivity to developments in the quantum computing sector.
The CES Foundry is designed to bring together entrepreneurs, investors, policymakers, and media to examine how technologies such as artificial intelligence, quantum computing, and blockchain are influencing the next phase of digital [...]
📅 - Happy Holidays: Final Days of the Membership Black Friday Offer - As 2025 draws to a close and the holiday season approaches, many companies in the cloud, hosting, and data center sector are reviewing their activities over the past year. This period is often used to assess commercial performance, marketing efforts, and how factors such as visibility, positioning, and content strategy have supported business objectives.
As companies define their marketing and communication strategies for 2026, visibility within relevant professional audiences is becoming a higher priority. In the cloud, hosting, telecom, and data center sectors, organizations are increasingly looking for ways to publish content in news environments that offer industry context, [...]
📅 - Alphabet to Acquire Intersect for $4.75B to Power Cloud, AI - Alphabet has agreed to acquire Intersect in a cash transaction valued at $4.75 billion, including the assumption of debt, in a move that underscores the growing interdependence between data center expansion and energy infrastructure development in the United States.
The deal builds on an existing relationship between the companies, as Google already holds a minority stake in Intersect from an earlier funding round.
The acquisition is designed to accelerate the delivery of new data center capacity alongside new power generation, addressing one of the most pressing constraints facing the cloud and AI infrastructure market: access to reliable, scalable energy. Intersect brings with it a [...]