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Xen 4.22 Broadens Hardware Support for Enterprise Virtualization - 📅 - The Xen Project has released Xen 4.22, extending hardware support and refining core virtualization capabilities as cloud operators, embedded developers and automotive manufacturers continue demanding lightweight hypervisors for increasingly specialized workloads. The update emphasizes scalability, maintainability and functional safety rather than introducing headline features, reflecting the project's gradual engineering approach to long-term infrastructure development and reliability.
Virtualization has become less visible than containers, Kubernetes and AI infrastructure. It has hardly become less important. Hypervisors remain fundamental across public cloud infrastructure, enterprise [...]
Virtualization has become less visible than containers, Kubernetes and AI infrastructure. It has hardly become less important. Hypervisors remain fundamental across public cloud infrastructure, enterprise [...]
EU Launches AI Gigafactory Tender Worth More Than €30 Billion - 📅 - The European Union has opened bidding for up to seven AI Gigafactories, committing as much as €10 billion in public funding to stimulate more than €30 billion in combined investment as Brussels races to expand sovereign computing capacity. The program targets Europe's widening infrastructure gap with the United States and China while giving domestic AI developers greater access to advanced compute resources.
Europe has spent years warning about dependence on foreign technology. Now the conversation is moving beyond semiconductors and cloud platforms toward AI infrastructure itself. Training and operating frontier models increasingly depends on enormous clusters of advanced processors, [...]
Europe has spent years warning about dependence on foreign technology. Now the conversation is moving beyond semiconductors and cloud platforms toward AI infrastructure itself. Training and operating frontier models increasingly depends on enormous clusters of advanced processors, [...]
Nscale Acquires Anyscale to Expand AI Cloud Platform - 📅 - Nscale has agreed to acquire AI software company Anyscale, extending its ambitions beyond GPU infrastructure into the software stack enterprises increasingly need to manage large-scale AI development. Financial terms were not disclosed, but the deal signals another attempt to package compute, orchestration and infrastructure into a single commercial platform as competition across AI clouds intensifies further.
Owning GPUs has become less distinctive. Capital remains scarce, power remains constrained and demand for AI capacity continues to exceed available supply, yet infrastructure providers are steadily discovering that hardware alone is a difficult business to defend. Customers want [...]
Owning GPUs has become less distinctive. Capital remains scarce, power remains constrained and demand for AI capacity continues to exceed available supply, yet infrastructure providers are steadily discovering that hardware alone is a difficult business to defend. Customers want [...]
Onyx Lands $113 Million for Enterprise AI Agent Controls - 📅 - Onyx Security has raised $113 million in Series B funding as investors crowd into the still-undefined market for controlling enterprise AI agents. The two-year-old company says its platform can monitor and intervene in agent behavior at runtime, a claim aimed squarely at security teams facing autonomous systems with growing access to critical corporate infrastructure and business workflows.
Bessemer Venture Partners led the round, joined by Cyberstarts, TCV, Conviction, FirstMark, Vintage, QuantumLight and G Squared. The financing brings Onyx's total capital raised to $153 million since its formation two years ago. That is a substantial war chest for a company that emerged from stealth [...]
Bessemer Venture Partners led the round, joined by Cyberstarts, TCV, Conviction, FirstMark, Vintage, QuantumLight and G Squared. The financing brings Onyx's total capital raised to $153 million since its formation two years ago. That is a substantial war chest for a company that emerged from stealth [...]
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Netskope Finds AI Risk Moving Into Enterprise Architecture - 📅 - Netskope says enterprise AI security has moved beyond employee misuse into a more dangerous phase shaped by connected agents, automated coding tools, and bidirectional data flows. Its latest report, covering June 2025 through July 2026, finds rapid adoption of MCP, Claude Code, and Codex is creating fresh execution, access-control, and software supply-chain risks for large organizations worldwide.
The old security problem was relatively legible. Employees copied source code, contracts, customer records, or regulated data into public chatbots, often without approval. Security teams responded with discovery tools, access controls, and policies designed to contain shadow AI. That problem [...]
The old security problem was relatively legible. Employees copied source code, contracts, customer records, or regulated data into public chatbots, often without approval. Security teams responded with discovery tools, access controls, and policies designed to contain shadow AI. That problem [...]
S&P Global Buys datacenterHawk to Expand Data Center Insight - 📅 - S&P Global has agreed to acquire data center intelligence provider datacenterHawk in a deal whose price was not disclosed, adding granular facility, pricing, pipeline, fiber and site-selection data to its energy and technology research operations. The transaction, due to close in the second half of 2026, targets investors and operators navigating increasingly constrained AI infrastructure markets worldwide.
The target is not large in conventional corporate terms. LinkedIn places datacenterHawk in the 11-to-50 employee bracket, while PitchBook reports a workforce of 47. Its reach is wider than that headcount suggests. Industry directory material says the company tracks more than 400 data [...]
The target is not large in conventional corporate terms. LinkedIn places datacenterHawk in the 11-to-50 employee bracket, while PitchBook reports a workforce of 47. Its reach is wider than that headcount suggests. Industry directory material says the company tracks more than 400 data [...]
DOE Turns Kentucky Site Into $100B AI Data Center Energy Hub - 📅 - The US Department of Energy has unveiled plans to convert part of its Paducah, Kentucky, site into a large-scale data center campus, backing a project officials value at more than $100 billion in private investment. Construction is expected through 2031, pending regulatory approvals, with AI infrastructure, dedicated power generation, and grid upgrades forming the centerpiece of the development.
Artificial intelligence is steadily redrawing the map of US infrastructure investment. Paducah now joins a growing list of locations where power availability, rather than metropolitan proximity, determines where hyperscale computing capacity gets built. The Department of Energy is effectively [...]
Artificial intelligence is steadily redrawing the map of US infrastructure investment. Paducah now joins a growing list of locations where power availability, rather than metropolitan proximity, determines where hyperscale computing capacity gets built. The Department of Energy is effectively [...]
ThreatLocker Lands $190M to Expand Zero Trust Security Platform - 📅 - ThreatLocker has raised $190 million in Series F financing as investors continue directing capital toward cybersecurity vendors promising to contain AI-driven risks before malicious software reaches enterprise environments. The funding gives the Zero Trust specialist additional resources to expand internationally, develop its security platform, and compete as prevention-based security regains attention among large organizations evaluating long-term cyber resilience.
Cybersecurity spending has remained relatively resilient despite tighter enterprise technology budgets, but buyers have become increasingly selective. Boards are demanding measurable reductions in operational risk rather than [...]
Cybersecurity spending has remained relatively resilient despite tighter enterprise technology budgets, but buyers have become increasingly selective. Boards are demanding measurable reductions in operational risk rather than [...]