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Aug, 2026 : ClickHouse Launches Research Lab Led by Andy Pavlo
📅 - ClickHouse has hired Carnegie Mellon database researcher Andy Pavlo to lead a new internal research group focused on database systems, query processing, performance, and infrastructure. The company says ClickHouse Labs will work across ClickHouse and PostgreSQL, linking academic research with production workloads as AI forces data platforms to handle heavier, faster, and less predictable demands at scale.
The appointment gives ClickHouse a recognizable figure in database research at a point when vendors are trying to turn systems expertise into commercial separation. Pavlo has worked on autonomous databases, transaction processing, analytics, and machine learning assisted optimization. He [...][... Check source for end of article ...]
📅 - IonQ, EPB Launch Tennessee Quantum Communications Research Center - IonQ will spend $15 million over five years to build a quantum communications research center with Chattanooga utility EPB, placing experimental quantum memory hardware on a live fiber network. The project gives researchers an operating test bed rather than another isolated lab, but its commercial value will depend on whether fragile quantum links can survive network conditions.
The Tennessee Quantum Communications Research Center will be based in Chattanooga and staffed by IonQ scientists. EPB will supply the operating fiber environment and act as the primary commercialization partner, with the stated aim of turning laboratory work into public and private sector applications across the [...]
📅 - Check Point Adds AI Traffic Controls to Enterprise Firewalls - Enterprise firewalls are being asked to inspect a new kind of traffic: employee prompts, model calls, autonomous agent actions, and sensitive business context flowing toward public and private AI systems. Check Point is adding controls for that activity to its existing firewall software, aiming to govern AI use without forcing customers to deploy another standalone security layer.
The feature arrives in the R82.20 software release and sits inside Check Point's broader AI Defense Plane. The commercial argument is straightforward enough. Most large companies already have firewalls positioned across branch offices, data centers, cloud estates, and remote access paths. If AI activity can be [...]
📅 - Brazilian Companies Split AI Workloads Across Hybrid Clouds - Brazilian companies are dividing AI workloads between private infrastructure and domestic public cloud regions as scarce advanced GPUs, data residency rules, and tighter cost controls reshape enterprise architecture. Research from ISG says data and preprocessing are staying local, while training and inference increasingly move to elastic capacity inside Brazil, raising questions about latency, resilience, and provider dependence.
The architecture is less about choosing between private and public cloud than deciding where each stage of an AI workload can run without creating a compliance, cost, or performance problem. Data and early processing remain in private, hosted, or colocation [...]
📅 - Zenity Raises $125M as AI Agent Security Market Takes Shape - Zenity has raised $125 million in a Series C led by Norwest as enterprises deploy more autonomous AI agents into business systems. The security company plans to expand internationally and deepen its platform, arguing that conventional model and prompt defenses cannot control software that can access data, call tools, alter workflows, and act without continuous human approval.
The round adds Qumra Capital, SoftBank Vision Fund 2, Hitachi Ventures, and LG Technology Ventures to a shareholder group that already includes Vertex Ventures, Third Point Ventures, DTCP, and Intel Capital. Zenity did not disclose its valuation, annual recurring revenue, cash burn, or the ownership sold. It says [...]
