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Blacksmith Raises $45M for Cloud Infrastructure Behind AI Coding
📅 - Blacksmith has raised $45 million at a $550 million valuation as AI coding agents drive sharply higher demand for continuous integration infrastructure. The company plans to spend most of the Series B on compute, expanding a fleet already spanning hundreds of thousands of cores as software teams discover that generating code faster also means validating far more changes safely.
The Series B, led by Peak XV Partners with participation from existing investors Y Combinator and GV, arrives at an interesting point in the AI coding cycle. Much of the attention around developer AI has centered on how quickly models can produce software. Blacksmith is building around the less glamorous [...][... Check source for end of article ...]
📅 - Oracle Adds Quantinuum Quantum Hardware to OCI Infrastructure - Quantinuum and Oracle have agreed a multi-year partnership that will place Quantinuum's Helios quantum computer inside Oracle Cloud Infrastructure, giving OCI customers cloud access alongside existing GPU and high-performance computing resources. The arrangement moves quantum hardware closer to conventional enterprise infrastructure, although meaningful commercial adoption will depend on whether hybrid workloads can demonstrate advantages beyond controlled experiments.
For enterprise infrastructure teams, the interesting part is not simply that another quantum computer will become accessible through a cloud platform. Quantum hardware has been remotely accessible for years. Oracle and [...]
📅 - Taiwan Expansion Gives Compal More Integrated AI Server Rack Capacity - Taiwanese electronics manufacturer Compal has opened an AI server manufacturing center in Daxi, adding rack-level integration and liquid-cooling capabilities as suppliers race to industrialize increasingly dense AI infrastructure. The NT$4.03 billion investment is expected to double Compal's AI server system capacity, with the site scheduled to begin contributing revenue progressively during the fourth quarter of 2026 thereafter.
The expansion is notable less for another factory coming online than for what Compal intends to manufacture inside it. The Daxi operation will handle L10 AI server systems and L11 rack-level solutions, moving the company further from assembling individual servers [...]
📅 - AI Rack Density Raises New 800 VDC Safety Questions - Schneider Electric has published an arc flash analysis for emerging 800 VDC data center architectures, addressing a safety question that could become increasingly important as AI infrastructure moves toward 400 kW racks and eventually megawatt-scale systems. The findings suggest higher-voltage DC distribution is manageable, but only when topology, capacitor behavior and fault-clearing times are modeled accurately enough.
The research arrives as the data center industry confronts a fairly basic engineering problem created by AI: getting very large amounts of power into increasingly concentrated compute environments. NVIDIA and power infrastructure suppliers including Schneider Electric are [...]
