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Aug, 2026 : New Subsea Cable Opens Syria Route to European Networks
📅 - Syria has signed a construction agreement for a new 240-kilometer subsea cable to Cyprus, advancing a rare international infrastructure project as the country rebuilds connectivity after years of isolation. UGARIT 2 is designed to launch with 31 Tbps of capacity, linking Tartous directly into European networks, while replacing an aging cable system dating from 1995 in service.
The construction and maintenance agreement brings together the Syrian Telecommunications Establishment, Cyprus Telecommunications Authority and U.S.-based UNIFI Communications. The planned system would contain 24 fiber pairs and, according to the consortium, eventually support up to 370 Tbps. Ready for Service is [...][... Check source for end of article ...]
📅 - Quanta and Quantinuum Take Quantum from Lab Toward Factory Floor - Quanta Computer and Quantinuum are moving quantum computing closer to a manufacturing problem, signing a development agreement to co-engineer hardware infrastructure for future Quantinuum systems. The deal brings one of the world's largest electronics manufacturers into an industry still dominated by specialized machines, as quantum companies confront whether increasingly capable processors can be turned into repeatable commercial computing systems.
The agreement is notable less for what Quanta and Quantinuum are building today than for the bottleneck they are trying to address. Quantum computing has spent years competing on qubit counts, fidelity, error correction and benchmark results. [...]
📅 - Investor CVC Acquires Firstcolo, Backs €250M Frankfurt Expansion - CVC Capital Partners has agreed to acquire a significant majority stake in German data center operator firstcolo, giving the infrastructure investor control of a nearly full Frankfurt colocation business and a 24 MW expansion project. The transaction puts fresh private capital behind scarce powered capacity as AI workloads intensify competition for electricity, cooling and construction across Germany.
The investment, being made through CVC DIF Value Add IV, is expected to close by the end of September, subject to customary conditions. Seller Cube Infrastructure Managers acquired firstcolo in 2022. Financial terms were not disclosed, leaving the valuation and CVC's expected equity [...]
📅 - IBM Builds Dual AI Strategy with OpenAI and Together AI - IBM is assembling an enterprise AI strategy deliberately spanning both proprietary frontier models and open-source inference. Within two days, the company unveiled an OpenAI consulting and deployment partnership and a $240 million Together AI infrastructure agreement, putting IBM across application modernization, cybersecurity, model deployment and Nvidia-powered compute rather than tying its enterprise business to one model ecosystem.
The two deals expose a broader commercial calculation. IBM does not need enterprises to agree on whether proprietary or open models ultimately dominate production AI. With OpenAI, it can sell consulting, integration and security work around GPT-5.6, Codex [...]
📅 - How to Get Higher Network Availability Across Data Centers, Clouds, WANs - Enterprise network resilience is increasingly constrained by dependencies that sit below the services companies think they have made redundant. Buying two circuits, deploying two routers, or connecting to two cloud locations can still leave a critical application exposed to one fiber route, building entrance, interconnection facility, power system, or routing error. For infrastructure teams, high availability now depends less on counting backups than on proving failure-domain separation end to end.
That distinction matters as enterprise traffic spreads across private data centers, colocation sites, public clouds, SaaS platforms, and edge locations. The network is no longer simply a path [...]
📅 - Anthropic Eyes $6 Billion Acquisition of AI Startup Decart - Anthropic is discussing a roughly $6 billion acquisition of Israeli AI startup Decart AI, Bloomberg reported, citing people familiar with the private negotiations. The proposed deal, not yet finalized, would be Anthropic's largest known acquisition and could give the Claude developer software designed to extract more performance from expensive AI chips as computing demand rises across infrastructure.
The talks put a large price on something increasingly scarce in artificial intelligence: compute efficiency. Anthropic has committed tens of billions of dollars to data center capacity and costly accelerators while Claude usage expands, leaving infrastructure economics as much a constraint on [...]
📅 - Databricks Raises $5B as AI Growth Tops 80%, Valuation Hits $190B - Databricks has raised $5 billion at a $190 billion valuation after its second-quarter revenue run-rate passed $7 billion, up more than 80% year over year. The private data and AI software company is using the new capital to deepen its database, agent and model-governance portfolio, while investors assign a sharply higher value to continued enterprise AI spending.
The valuation is the eye-catching number, but the more useful signal for enterprise technology buyers is where Databricks says the growth is occurring. Its Lakehouse data warehousing business has moved beyond a $1.5 billion revenue run-rate, up more than 100% year over year, while Lakebase, its serverless PostgreSQL database, has [...]
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