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Jun, 2026 : Israel Moves To Build Quantum And Photonics Hardware Base
📅 - Israel is moving to harden its quantum and photonics base, pairing a NIS 150 million state-backed integrated photonics infrastructure call with the launch of Qubit IL's first Quantum Launchpad, a private-sector ecosystem program aimed at turning research, startups and capital into domestic hardware capability before global technology blocs close further around strategic supply chains and defense markets.
Read together, the two developments say more than either one does alone.
The Israel Innovation Authority and the Ministry of Defense's Directorate of Defense Research & Development, known as DDR&D or MAFAT, are looking for proposals to build or operate advanced integrated photonics R&D [...][... Check source for end of article ...]
📅 - KKR Officially Launches $10bn Helix AI Data Center Firm - KKR has now formally launched Helix Digital Infrastructure, confirming the $10 billion AI infrastructure venture reported in May and adding Kuwait Investment Authority, NVIDIA and Vistra as anchor backers. The company, led by former AWS chief Adam Selipsky, will finance hyperscale data centers, power assets and connectivity for cloud providers facing acute capacity constraints in multiple markets.
When HostingJournalist first reported in May that KKR was assembling Helix, the story was still largely about formation. A private equity giant, a former AWS chief executive, more than $10 billion in commitments, and a plan to sit underneath the AI infrastructure boom rather than compete [...]
📅 - KIOXIA Brings AI Flash Storage Story To HPE Discover 2026 - KIOXIA America is using HPE Discover 2026 to make a more pointed case for enterprise flash storage, linking its SSDs to AI systems, hybrid cloud platforms, edge computing and HPE's Spaceborne Computer work. The message is not subtle: AI infrastructure debates may start with GPUs, but they do not end there anymore for buyers.
For years, storage vendors have lived downstream of the louder infrastructure story. Processors got the attention. Networks got the urgency. Cloud platforms took the budget argument. Storage was essential, yes, but often treated as a capacity line item unless something broke.
AI has changed the tone. Not completely. Enough.
KIOXIA arrives in Las Vegas with a [...]
📅 - KDDI Deploys Open Backbone Routers as AI Traffic Grows - KDDI has begun commercial deployment of a cluster-based distributed disaggregated backbone router across major Japanese network sites, using DriveNets software and UfiSpace hardware to expand capacity for AI-driven traffic. The operator says the architecture cuts equipment deployment costs by about 50% versus conventional chassis routers, with nationwide deployment targeted by fiscal 2027 in Japan's core network.
The move is technical, but the implications are not narrow. Backbone routers are the heavy machinery of the internet. They move traffic between data centers, cloud regions, content platforms, mobile networks and enterprise services. If that layer becomes too rigid or too [...]
📅 - EU Challenges US AI Controls After Anthropic Model Cutoff - European officials are treating Anthropic's sudden cutoff of its top AI models as more than a vendor outage, after a U.S. export control order forced the company to disable Fable 5 and Mythos 5 for foreign users, raising new questions over sovereign AI, cloud dependence and Washington's expanding control over model access for allies too now abruptly.
The European Commission said it is assessing the practical effects of the U.S. directive, while warning that such measures should not discriminate against partners. That is diplomatic language. The reaction across parts of Europe is less restrained: if a U.S. agency can force a frontier AI provider to shut off access to foreign users with [...]
📅 - Linux 7.1 Lands With Cloud Storage and Kernel Cleanup Shifts - Linux kernel 7.1 has landed with a quieter release than its change list suggests, bringing storage rewrites, scheduler groundwork, tighter process controls, and old hardware removals that cloud operators will feel less as drama than as maintenance debt finally coming due across fleets still mixing modern accelerators with stubborn legacy assumptions in production environments worldwide right now.
Linus Torvalds released Linux 7.1 without the kind of late-cycle breakage that forces enterprise buyers to stop reading after the first paragraph. Fine. But the bigger story is not that the kernel shipped cleanly. It is what has been moved closer to the center of Linux as the operating system [...]
📅 - IREN Buys Spain’s Nostrum to Enter Europe’s AI Cloud Market - IREN has closed its acquisition of Spain's Nostrum Group, giving the Sydney-based AI cloud operator its first European foothold and roughly 490MW of secured grid-connected power. The deal, whose financial terms were not disclosed, adds a local data center development team and pipeline aimed at customers chasing scarce AI infrastructure capacity across Europe right now.
For infrastructure buyers, the number that matters is not the purchase price. IREN did not disclose it. The number is 490MW. Secured power has become the hard currency of AI infrastructure, particularly in markets where GPUs can be ordered faster than substations can be approved.