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Celestial AI Secures $255M to Scale Optical Interconnects for AI
📅 - Celestial AI, a company specializing in optical interconnect technology designed for modern AI infrastructure, has secured $255 million in a Series C1 funding round. The round included strategic investments from VentureTech Alliance and Samsung Catalyst Fund, bringing the company's total funding to $520 million.
The new capital will be used to accelerate the commercialization of its Photonic Fabric technology, a system engineered to move data optically between processors and servers, addressing the growing performance and energy challenges of AI-scale workloads.
Now that $520 million has been raised, Celestial AI is getting ready to expand the commercial use of its Photonic Fabric with [...][... Check source for end of article ...]
📅 - Cohere Raises $500M to Expand Secure Agentic AI for Enterprise Markets - Cohere has secured $500 million in fresh funding, lifting its valuation to $6.8 billion, as the enterprise AI company accelerates the rollout of its security-first agentic AI platform designed to improve organizational productivity. With the latest investment, Cohere plans to deepen its research capabilities, expand its product portfolio, and accelerate global market penetration.
The funding marks one of the largest AI-focused capital raises of the year. The oversubscribed round was co-led by Radical Ventures and Inovia Capital, with participation from new backers such as the Healthcare of Ontario Pension Plan (HOOPP) and continued support from existing investors including AMD Ventures, [...]
📅 - DE-CIX Launches São Paulo IXs Across Three Data Centers - DE-CIX, one of the world's largest operators of Internet Exchanges (IXs), has launched operations in São Paulo, marking a major expansion of high-performance interconnection infrastructure in Brazil. The new DE-CIX São Paulo Internet Exchange is distributed across three data centers - Equinix SP4, Elea SPO1, and Ascenty SP4.
The new DE-CIX PoP is already onboarding its first customers, including Azion Technologies, a leader in distributed edge computing.
The platform offers a suite of interconnection services such as local peering, remote peering, cloud exchange, and multi-cloud routing, all designed to reduce latency and increase performance for enterprise networking. Through direct, [...]
📅 - Celebrate 15 Years of OpenStack with OpenMetal Cloud Infrastructure Credits - This year marks the 15th anniversary of OpenStack, the open-source cloud platform trusted by some of the largest public and private clouds in the world. To celebrate, OpenMetal, a leader in Hosted Private Cloud powered by OpenStack and Ceph, and a Silver Member of the OpenInfra Foundation, is launching a limited-time promotion to help organizations make the shift to open infrastructure.
From now until November 30, 2025, new customers who sign a 24-month Hosted Private Cloud contract with OpenMetal can receive up to $75,000 in infrastructure credits over the first 15 months. The credits are applied monthly based on a customer's spend and are designed to ease the financial and operational [...]
📅 - New Subsea Fiber Cable Deployed to in Canada by Bell - Bell has announced the completion of a new Canadian undersea fiber optic cable system connecting mainland Newfoundland to Fogo Island and Change Islands, marking a significant milestone in extending reliable broadband to two of the province's most remote and culturally distinct communities.
The initiative, delivered in partnership with the Government of Canada through the Universal Broadband Fund (UBF), introduces Fibre-to-the-Home (FTTH) technology that will serve residents, businesses, and tourists with modern high-speed internet access.
The project involved laying more than 16 kilometers of double-armored submarine cable across challenging terrain and water depths reaching up to 49 [...]
📅 - Leaseweb Named Official Shirt Sponsor of Dutch Football Team AZ - Leaseweb has announced a new partnership with Dutch football club AZ Alkmaar, stepping in as the team's official shirt sponsor beginning with the upcoming season. The agreement brings together two organizations that highlight a shared focus on technology, data, and community impact, while signaling Leaseweb's intention to strengthen its visibility both in the Netherlands and internationally.
The sponsorship is framed as more than a branding exercise. Leaseweb, founded in 1997, operates a global infrastructure spanning 25 data centers across North America, Europe, Asia, and Australia. With more than 80,000 servers supporting cloud, hosting, and interconnection services, the company enables [...]
📅 - Study: 60% of Enterprises See AI ROI Now or Within 12 Months - As artificial intelligence shifts from experimental pilots to business-critical applications, enterprises are adopting more complex infrastructure strategies that emphasize hybrid models and geographic distribution. That is the conclusion of new sponsored research published by DataBank, a U.S.-based provider of enterprise colocation, connectivity, and managed services.
The study, Accelerating AI: Navigating the Future of Enterprise Infrastructure, finds that companies are moving away from relying exclusively on generic, cloud-based AI platforms. Instead, they are increasingly developing customized models and distributing workloads across colocation, on-premises systems, and cloud [...]
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