📅 - Copia Automation has raised $26 million to expand its industrial code management and recovery platform, taking total funding to $55 million, as manufacturers, utilities and critical infrastructure operators confront a basic problem in operational technology: the code running physical systems often lacks the backup, version control and recovery discipline long standard in enterprise IT environments.
The round was co-led by AE Ventures and Squadra Ventures, with KAS Venture Partners joining and Construct Capital, Lux Capital, Ironspring Ventures and Renegade Partners returning. The financing includes equity and venture debt. That mix says something. Growth capital, but with a [...][... Check source for end of article ...]
📅 - Rackspace Turns AMD Alliance Into 30 MW AI Deployment - Rackspace has moved its AMD enterprise AI partnership from memorandum to deployment plan, signing a definitive agreement for an initial 30 MW of AMD-based compute across its global data center footprint from late 2026 through 2028, as cloud providers race to turn AI ambitions into governed infrastructure enterprises might actually trust and buy.
The important part is not just the 30 MW figure. It is the move from intent to committed deployment. At least on paper.
The agreement operationalizes the memorandum of understanding announced in May and places AMD deeper inside Rackspace's managed AI proposition, with Instinct GPUs and EPYC CPUs becoming part of what Rackspace calls a governed AI [...]
📅 - SpaceX To Acquire Cursor In $60 Billion AI Coding Deal - SpaceX is moving ahead with a $60 billion stock-based acquisition of Anysphere, maker of the Cursor AI coding tool, according to a Tuesday regulatory filing, in a deal that would pull one of software development's fastest-growing AI products into Elon Musk's expanding compute, space and artificial intelligence empire by the third quarter of 2026.
The transaction is large enough to make people stop arguing about whether AI coding tools are merely developer productivity software. At this price, Cursor is being treated as distribution, workflow control and strategic leverage. Maybe even as a beachhead into enterprise software engineering budgets that have been moving faster than many chief [...]
📅 - Schneider Electric, Foxconn Team Up on AI Data Centers - Schneider Electric and Foxconn have agreed to collaborate on AI data center designs, pairing power, cooling and energy-management systems with large-scale manufacturing and AI rack integration, as operators look for faster ways to deploy high-density compute without treating electrical infrastructure, thermal design and supply chains as separate problems. Production is slated to begin later this year globally.
The deal is less about one more vendor alliance and more about a problem the data center industry can no longer hide behind glossy capacity announcements. AI infrastructure is not just servers. It is power distribution. Heat rejection. Factory timing. Rack integration. Site [...]
📅 - HPE Makes Networking The Control Layer For AI Factories - HPE used its Discover conference in Las Vegas to widen its AI infrastructure story, adding self-driving networking, Juniper switching, unified SASE, NVIDIA-backed agentic AI controls and new private cloud capabilities as the company tries to turn AI factories from engineered projects into repeatable operating environments for enterprises, data center teams and regulated buyers at scale.
The message is broad enough to feel almost overstuffed. Networking, security, AI factories, private cloud, GreenLake, sovereign deployments, Vera CPUs, Aruba Central, Mist, Marvis, Zerto, Alletra, Morpheus, OpsRamp. Plenty of product surface area.
Underneath it, though, sits a clearer infrastructure [...]
📅 - Equinix Takes AI Factories Into Global Colocation - Equinix is expanding work with Cisco and NVIDIA to deploy Cisco Secure AI Factory designs across its global colocation footprint, adding Presidio's P.A.T.H. Lab as a proving ground for enterprises that want production-grade AI infrastructure tested inside real data center environments before committing to broader rollouts across hybrid, cloud, neocloud, on-premises and colocated estates globally.
The move says something about where enterprise AI has landed after the first rush of pilots. The bottleneck is no longer only model access. It is infrastructure confidence. Can the customer run the workload near the right data? Can it keep control? Can the network handle it? Is the cooling there? [...]
📅 - AWS Puts Fault-Tolerant Quantum on Cloud Roadmap With QuEra - QuEra Computing's first fault-tolerant quantum machine, Libra, will reach Amazon Braket in 2028, giving AWS customers cloud access to a neutral-atom system designed for roughly one million reliable logical quantum operations, more than 256 error-corrected logical qubits, and a stated logical error rate of 10^-6, if the roadmap actually holds as promised commercially too, broadly.
For enterprises, this is not yet a procurement event. It is a planning problem. Libra will not arrive as another experimental quantum device for short demonstrations and grant-funded curiosity. QuEra and AWS are describing something closer to infrastructure: a fault-tolerant processor exposed through a cloud [...]