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May, 2026 : Zscaler Buys Symmetry to Strengthen Zero Trust for AI
📅 - Zscaler plans to acquire Symmetry Systems, a data-security startup whose access graph technology maps how identities, applications, data stores, and AI systems interact across enterprise environments. The deal, expected to close within days and with terms undisclosed, signals a shift in zero-trust security toward controlling autonomous software agents, not just employees and devices, inside large corporate networks.
The acquisition is small enough, at least from the outside, to disappear into Zscaler's broader AI-security narrative. It probably should not. Symmetry is not being bought for another dashboard or another compliance module. Zscaler is buying a map.
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📅 - Via Africa Cable Plan Adds New Europe-Africa Data Route Soon - A group of telecom and infrastructure investors has signed an MoU for Via Africa, a new submarine cable intended to link Europe with South Africa and multiple West African landing points. The project is still early, but its stated aim is familiar and urgent - more capacity, more routing choice, and less fragility in African connectivity.
The backers include Canalink, GUILAB, International Mauritania Telecom, Orange Group, Orange Côte d'Ivoire, Sonatel and Silverlinks. Not a hyperscaler-led announcement. Not yet a construction award either. The consortium is starting with route studies and supplier procurement, which means the commercial and engineering risk still sits in front of the [...]
📅 - NetActuate Expands Amsterdam Edge Cloud Services - NetActuate is expanding its Amsterdam data center footprint as infrastructure buyers in Europe look beyond hyperscale cloud for lower-latency, more controllable edge capacity. The company is tying the move to IBC 2026, where it plans to show VPU-as-a-Service with NETINT, aimed at video workloads that increasingly strain generic cloud economics and networks.
Amsterdam is not a decorative location for this kind of announcement. It is one of the few European markets where internet exchange density, carrier choice, enterprise demand, and regulatory pressure all collide in the same place. For NetActuate, the expanded presence gives it a stronger European Point of Presence for its Open Network [...]
📅 - US Quantum Funding Raises Stakes in Tech Race With China - Washington is preparing to put $2 billion into nine quantum computing companies, including IBM and GlobalFoundries, in an industrial-policy move aimed squarely at China and the still-unsettled supply chain behind future machines. The money, routed through Commerce Department incentives, would give federal backing to technology that remains strategically enticing, commercially early, and technically stubborn.
For enterprise buyers, the practical change is not that quantum systems suddenly become usable at scale. They do not. The change is that Washington is trying to decide which parts of the future quantum stack should be made inside the United States before the market has fully proven [...]
📅 - Shatterdome Raises $3.5M for Data Center Power Trading Tools - Shatterdome Energy has raised $3.5 million in pre-seed funding to build AI software for trading power across renewable assets, batteries, and flexible industrial demand. The round was led by Crucible Capital, with Transpose Platform and Entrepreneurs First participating, as data center power demand turns electricity volatility from a nuisance into a balance-sheet problem for infrastructure operators globally.
The company is coming out of stealth with a familiar claim for an unfamiliar moment: electricity assets should behave more like programmable financial infrastructure. Not just generate power. Not just store it. Trade around congestion, weather, ramping constraints, and price signals [...]
📅 - Corsair Enters Data Center AI Market With PRO Servers - Corsair has introduced CORSAIR PRO, a new AI server portfolio aimed at organizations deploying GPU-heavy workloads in private data centers, hosted environments, and managed infrastructure platforms. The launch puts Corsair into a crowded enterprise hardware market as cloud providers, colocation operators, and infrastructure buyers look for standardized systems to support training, inference, RAG, and AI production deployments.
Corsair is not entering this market early. The AI infrastructure rush has already pulled in every major server vendor, GPU supplier, white-box manufacturer, integrator, and managed cloud provider with access to accelerator inventory. Dell, HPE, Lenovo, Supermicro, [...]
📅 - Pasqal Reports Logical Qubits Beat Physical Qubits in Tests - Pasqal said its neutral-atom quantum processor has shown logical qubits outperforming physical qubits on full differential-equation workloads, a milestone the company frames as an industry first. The result, published on arXiv, arrives as Pasqal prepares to go public through Bleichroeder Acquisition Corp. II and as quantum vendors face pressure to prove application-level utility beyond lab demonstrations today.
Quantum computing companies have spent years selling an uncomfortable promise: the machines are not broadly useful yet, but the architecture is improving, the error rates are falling, and eventually the economics will make sense. Pasqal's latest research is aimed directly at that [...]
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