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MixxTech Advances Optical AI Infrastructure with $33M Series A Funding
📅 - Mixx Technologies has secured a USD 33 million Series A funding round to accelerate its ambition to reinvent AI infrastructure through full-stack optical integration, marking one of the more significant early-stage investments in the rapidly expanding AI hardware ecosystem.
The company was founded by engineers responsible for some of the most important advances in optical networking over the past two decades, including Intel's silicon-photonics transceivers and Broadcom's first generation of co-packaged optics. Their work helped define how hyperscale data centers transmit information today. Mixx is now applying that expertise to the mounting bottleneck constraining AI's scale: the ability [...][... Check source for end of article ...]
📅 - Rubrik Launches Agent Cloud to Govern AI Agents on Amazon Bedrock - Rubrik is expanding its footprint in AI security and governance with the introduction of Rubrik Agent Cloud for Amazon Bedrock AgentCore, a new integration designed to give enterprises centralized oversight and control of AI agents operating across multi-cloud environments.
The announcement would underscore a growing industry need for structured guardrails as organizations scale agent-based automation and confront new security risks tied to rapidly advancing generative AI capabilities.
Rubrik Agent Cloud is built to monitor, govern, and remediate the actions of AI agents, acting as a unified operational layer that manages the full lifecycle of agentic systems. The platform continuously [...]
📅 - QCaaS Market Surges as Enterprises Turn to Cloud Quantum Access - New analysis from Credence Research indicates that Quantum Computing-as-a-Service (QCaaS) is shifting from a niche experimental tool to a strategic infrastructure capability, driven by accelerating advances in quantum processors, improved software toolchains, and expanding industry-specific applications.
The global market for Quantum Computing-as-a-Service is entering a decisive growth phase as enterprises increasingly turn to cloud-based quantum access instead of investing in their own hardware.
The report highlights that the market, valued at USD 640 million in 2018, has already grown to USD 1.82 billion in 2024 and is projected to reach USD 18.6 billion by 2032, sustaining a compound [...]
📅 - HPE Expands AI-Native Networking Portfolio After Juniper Acquisition - Hewlett Packard Enterprise is moving quickly to reshape the enterprise networking market, unveiling a major expansion of its AI-native networking portfolio just five months after finalizing its acquisition of Juniper Networks. The announcement underscores HPE's push to rapidly unify its networking technologies and set a new benchmark for AI-driven automation, performance, and observability across hybrid cloud environments.
For global enterprises grappling with the demands of AI workloads, rapidly multiplying connected devices, and rising security expectations, HPE's unified strategy aims to simplify operations and enhance infrastructure resilience at scale.
The expanded portfolio [...]
📅 - IBM to Acquire Confluent for $11B to Boost Real-Time AI Data Systems - IBM has moved to significantly deepen its position in the AI and data infrastructure market with an agreement to acquire Confluent, the streaming data specialist, for USD 11 billion. The deal, announced by both companies, positions real-time data streaming as a foundational layer for enterprise adoption of agentic and generative AI, underscoring how strategically critical data movement has become in modern hybrid cloud architectures.
With organizations adopting AI at unprecedented speed, the capacity to connect, process and govern data in real time is becoming more important than the size or compute power of the models themselves. Confluent, built on the widely adopted open-source [...]
📅 - Digital Realty Offers OCI Access in Singapore via FastConnect - In addition to the additional connectivity, Digital Realty is using its global data center platform, PlatformDIGITAL, to make an Oracle Solution Center available in Singapore. Customers will have access to a safe environment at the Oracle Solution Center for designing, testing, and validating AI and hybrid architectures. It is Singapore's first and further solidifies the nation's position as a key regional center for AI transformation and digital infrastructure.
By establishing a second on-ramp to OCI in the area, the new link will offer low-latency access and enhanced redundancy to clients in Southeast Asia. Additionally, clients will be able to more efficiently serve workloads that are [...]
📅 - SoftBank Eyes DigitalBridge Buyout to Expand AI Infrastructure - SoftBank Group is exploring a potential acquisition of DigitalBridge Group, the digital infrastructure-focused private equity firm, as the Japanese conglomerate seeks to deepen its exposure to the rapidly expanding AI compute economy. According to people familiar with the discussions, SoftBank is evaluating a deal that would take DigitalBridge private, though negotiations remain ongoing.
A transaction could be announced within weeks if talks progress. For SoftBank founder Masayoshi Son, the move aligns with a broader strategy to aggressively invest in the backbone technologies required for artificial intelligence. As global demand for compute capacity accelerates, ownership of data [...]
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