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Jun, 2026 : Microsoft Sets 2029 Quantum Target With Majorana 2
📅 - Microsoft has introduced Majorana 2, a topological quantum chip it says is 1,000 times more reliable than its previous qubits, while opening Microsoft Discovery as a commercial platform for AI-assisted research. The company now says it can reach a scalable quantum computer by 2029, a claim likely to draw attention and doubts from labs, customers, and investors.
The announcement lands in two markets at once, and neither is patient.
In quantum computing, Microsoft is trying to show that its long and technically stubborn pursuit of topological qubits is finally moving from physics claim to engineering roadmap. In enterprise software, it is trying to turn the same internal AI tooling used by [...][... Check source for end of article ...]
📅 - EU Sovereignty Plan Seeks Control While Keeping US Cloud - The European Commission has unveiled a Tech Sovereignty Package aimed at reducing dependence on non-EU suppliers across chips, cloud, AI, open-source software and energy infrastructure, sharpening a question enterprises already face: when should Europe use U.S. cloud technology, and when does resilience require more control closer to home instead for governments and regulated industries now buyers too.
The package combines an updated Chips Act, a Cloud and AI Development Act, an open digital ecosystem strategy, and a roadmap for digitalization and AI in energy. The political driver is obvious enough. Europe still relies heavily on non-European suppliers for digital products, services, [...]
📅 - Anthropic Expands Mythos Access to 200 Security Partners - Anthropic has expanded Project Glasswing to nearly 200 organizations, giving selected companies and public-sector bodies controlled access to Claude Mythos Preview for cybersecurity testing. The move turns a narrow AI safety effort into a broader defensive program, as software vendors, infrastructure operators and governments confront models that can find vulnerabilities faster than humans can respond at scale.
The expansion changes the shape of Project Glasswing. What began as a partnership of roughly 50 organizations is now becoming a more structured cyber coalition, with access widened to about 200 participants. Anthropic is not throwing the doors open. Participants must meet security [...]
📅 - Astera Labs Expands Taiwan Lab to Speed Global AI Rack Deployment - Astera Labs is expanding its Taiwan operations and Cloud-Scale Interop Lab as AI infrastructure buyers demand faster validation of rack-scale systems before deployment. The move brings Astera's connectivity engineering closer to platform vendors and Taiwan ODMs, underscoring how AI capacity now depends as much on integration speed as silicon availability and manufacturing scale for hyperscalers globally today.
The expansion is not just a regional office story. It sits inside a much larger bottleneck. AI labs, cloud providers and hyperscalers are trying to bring training and inference capacity online at a pace that traditional server qualification processes were not designed to support. [...]
📅 - Megaport Adds Storage, Raises Capital for AI Cloud Expansion - Megaport is adding storage to its automated infrastructure platform while raising A$827.3 million and lining up about A$458.9 million in AI infrastructure contracts, a combination that shifts the Australian connectivity provider deeper into compute, data movement and GPU-backed inference at a moment when customers are rethinking where AI workloads should run and who pays for capacity now.
The company, best known for software-defined cloud connectivity, is trying to make a larger claim on infrastructure budgets. Not just the link between clouds. The place where storage, network and compute are bought together, configured together and, ideally, billed with fewer surprises.
That is the [...]
📅 - Study: Power Constraints Reshape the US Data Center Boom - The U.S. data center build-out is entering a more expensive phase, with Arizton projecting nearly $839 billion in cumulative non IT infrastructure investment from 2026 to 2031, while AI demand, regional power constraints and hyperscale expansion are shifting growth away from only established hubs toward markets where electricity, land and permitting move faster than rack demand alone suggests.
The headline number attached to Arizton's market note is also large: U.S. data center market investment reaching $494.49 billion by 2031. The broader cumulative figure, excluding IT infrastructure, points to how much concrete, power gear, cooling, land, substations and construction work may be [...]
📅 - Pure DC Tests Biomethane to Decarbonize Data Centers - Pure DC has completed a 9 GWh cross-border biomethane transfer into Ireland's gas network, claiming operational-scale decarbonization for gas-connected data centers, while testing whether certificate-backed renewable gas can satisfy hyperscale energy demands, EU emissions rules and Ireland's large energy user policy before domestic biomethane supply is ready to carry the load at scale, locally and reliably enough.
The company, a developer and operator of hyperscale cloud and AI data centers across Europe and the Middle East, said the gas was produced in Germany in 2025 from waste and residue feedstocks, certified under the ISCC scheme, and moved into the Irish network using a mass-balance [...]
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