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Jul, 2026 : Schneider and AMD Unveil Helios AI Factory Blueprint
📅 - Schneider Electric and AMD have unveiled a jointly validated reference design for the Helios AI platform, offering data center operators a tested framework for deploying extremely dense AI infrastructure. The release targets mounting concerns over power, cooling, integration complexity, and construction timelines as enterprise AI spending accelerates worldwide while customers seek predictable deployment models before capacity disappears.
The announcement arrives as AI infrastructure projects are becoming engineering exercises as much as technology procurements. Buying accelerators is increasingly the straightforward part. Getting enough electrical capacity, managing thermal loads, [...][... Check source for end of article ...]
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📅 - Uptime Institute Joins Iraq’s Nineveh Digital Infrastructure Plans - Iraq has enlisted Uptime Institute to help shape digital infrastructure development in Nineveh, linking one of the country's most ambitious regional modernization efforts with global data center standards as governments increasingly treat digital capacity as economic infrastructure rather than purely an information technology investment. The agreement also reflects Washington's broader commercial engagement with Iraq through technology and infrastructure partnerships.
The memorandum of understanding, signed during Iraqi Prime Minister Ali Al-Zaidi's visit to the United States, places Uptime Institute alongside the Governorate of Nineveh as an adviser on building resilient digital [...]
📅 - NVIDIA Unites Rivals Around Open AI Security Infrastructure - The Open Secure AI Alliance was launched today with NVIDIA, Microsoft, IBM, Cisco and other major technology vendors joining forces around open-source AI security, signaling an effort to shape how enterprises protect models, agents and infrastructure before regulatory expectations, operational risks and market concentration harden into industry defaults amid accelerating enterprise AI deployments worldwide despite unresolved governance questions.
The alliance arrives as organizations move beyond experimenting with generative AI and begin treating autonomous software agents as operational systems that can access applications, infrastructure, and business data with limited human oversight. [...]
📅 - Rigetti, HPE Secure $5 Million for Quantum-HPC Testbed - A $5 million National Science Foundation grant will fund a new hybrid quantum-classical supercomputing testbed from Rigetti Computing, Hewlett Packard Enterprise and the Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center, giving researchers access to a 9-qubit Novera system integrated with conventional HPC infrastructure as the industry tests whether quantum processors can deliver useful work inside real computing environments together.
Quantum computing has spent years promising disruption while struggling to prove routine commercial value. That gap has not stopped governments, universities and infrastructure vendors from investing in systems intended to answer a more immediate question: how should [...]
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