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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 [...][... Check source for end of article ...]
📅 - 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 [...]
📅 - 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 [...]
📅 - 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 [...]
📅 - ZincFive Secures $30M to Scale Nickel-Zinc Power for AI Data Centers - ZincFive has secured a new $30 million Series F financing round, closing the raise in an oversubscribed position as demand accelerates for advanced power systems capable of supporting the rapid expansion of AI data center infrastructure. ZincFive is a global provider of nickel-zinc battery research and delivery as well as instant power solutions.
Founded in 2016, the Oregon-based company has now raised a total of $254 million and plans to use the new capital to scale manufacturing capacity and expand its commercial reach as hyperscalers face mounting pressure to secure reliable, sustainable, and high-density backup power.
ZincFive reports nearly 2 GW of nickel-zinc battery backup [...]
📅 - Zilliz Expands Global Vector Database Platform with AWS Partnership - Zilliz, the company behind the widely deployed open-source vector database Milvus, has named Amazon Web Services as its strategic cloud provider in a move that underscores how foundational vector databases have become in the generative AI ecosystem.
The partnership would reflect accelerating enterprise demand for platforms capable of processing massive volumes of unstructured data - text, images, audio, logs - and converting them into vector embeddings that modern AI systems can query and reason over at scale.
Founded in 2017, Zilliz has built its business around providing high-performance vector databases that can support real-time similarity search, retrieval-augmented generation, and [...]
📅 - Pasqal Expands Quantum Access via Scaleway QaaS Platform - Pasqal, the French quantum computing firm specializing in neutral-atom architectures, has expanded cloud access to its quantum processing units through integration with Scaleway's QaaS platform. Announced at ai-PULSE 2025, the partnership enables European enterprises, researchers, and developers to access Pasqal's QPUs within a sovereign cloud environment as quantum workloads grow and regulatory demands intensify.
Scaleway's QaaS platform aggregates multiple European quantum technologies into a single cloud-accessible ecosystem. By joining this environment, Pasqal makes its hardware available alongside other quantum modalities, allowing users to experiment with different approaches [...]
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