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Castellum.AI Raises $8.5M to Transform Financial Crime Compliance with AI - 📅 - Castellum.AI, a rapidly emerging fintech startup specializing in AI-powered financial crime compliance, has closed an oversubscribed $8.5 million Series A funding round. The investment signals growing institutional confidence in the startup's vision to modernize anti-money laundering (AML) and know-your-customer (KYC) compliance through a fully integrated AI platform.

The round was led by Curql Collective, a venture fund backed by over 130 U.S. credit unions including Navy Federal, and joined by BTech Consortium, a fund sponsored by more than a dozen banks such as Customers Bank. Framework Venture Partners, backed by Tier 1 Canadian financial institutions including RBC, also participated. [...]
Aligned’s Phoenix Data Center Earns Three Green Globes Certification - 📅 - Aligned Data Centers has earned a Three Green Globes certification from the Green Building Initiative (GBI) for its newest Phoenix facility, PHX-06, marking a notable achievement in sustainable data center construction.

The certification, part of GBI's Green Globes for New Construction program, recognizes high performance in categories including occupant health, environmental impact, and resource efficiency. Aligned, a prominent provider of hyperscale and enterprise-scale digital infrastructure solutions, continues to distinguish itself as a sustainability leader in the data center sector.

PHX-06's certification highlights the facility's use of 100% renewable energy, advanced cooling [...]
Cirion Appoints New CEOs for Data Center and Connectivity Divisions - 📅 - Cirion, a key provider of digital infrastructure and connectivity solutions across Latin America, has appointed Nelson Fonseca and Santiago Londoño as Chief Executive Officers of its Data Center and Connectivity business units, respectively.

The leadership changes come as part of a broader organizational shift aimed at accelerating growth by giving each core division independent operational focus while continuing to leverage the company's shared infrastructure and resources. Both Fonseca and Londoño will report directly to Cirion's Board of Directors.

The announcement follows the resignation of Facundo Castro as CEO and his simultaneous appointment to the company's Board. Castro, a [...]
hosted.com logoHosted.com Provides Professional Website Building Through Site.pro Integration - 📅 - Building and launching a professional-looking website has historically required web design experience, coding skills, and financial investment. Hosted.com has helped redefine that process with its Website Builder, backed by Site.pro, a feature-rich, browser-based platform designed for speed, functionality and ease of use.

Available as an add-on to Hosted.com's cPanel Web Hosting plans, the Website Builder allows anyone from entrepreneurs to bloggers to design and launch their own template-driven websites with no technical expertise required. The integration combines Hosted.com's hosting infrastructure with Site.pro's web design tools for a seamless user experience.

Site.pro is known for [...]
hosted.com logoHosted.com Provides Professional Website Building Through Site.pro Integration - 📅 - Building and launching a professional-looking website has historically required web design experience, coding skills, and financial investment. Hosted.com has helped redefine that process with its Website Builder, backed by Site.pro, a feature-rich, browser-based platform designed for speed, functionality and ease of use.

Available as an add-on to Hosted.com's cPanel Web Hosting plans, the Website Builder allows anyone from entrepreneurs to bloggers to design and launch their own template-driven websites with no technical expertise required. The integration combines Hosted.com's hosting infrastructure with Site.pro's web design tools for a seamless user experience.

Site.pro is known for [...]
GNM Expands Sweden-Balkans Optical Network - 📅 - GNM has completed a significant expansion of its European optical transport network by extending its dense wavelength division multiplexing (DWDM) backbone from Sweden to the Balkans, introducing fully diverse new routes designed to enhance regional connectivity and operational resilience.

The upgrade includes a modernization of the Frankfurt–Kista corridor, where GNM's Kista node underwent a comprehensive hardware and rack-level refresh. This enhancement increases available bandwidth, reduces energy consumption, and improves overall efficiency across Northern Europe.

Simultaneously, GNM launched a new DWDM line connecting Bratislava to Sofia through two distinct paths - one passing [...]
ibm.com logoIBM Launches Power11: AI-Ready, Resilient Server for Hybrid Cloud Era - 📅 - IBM has officially introduced Power11, the latest generation of its enterprise server platform, signaling a major leap forward in performance, resilience, and AI-readiness for mission-critical workloads across hybrid cloud environments. This enterprise server platform is designed with substantial advancements in hardware architecture, processor technology, and virtualization software.

IBM Power11 aims to address growing business demands for scalability, uptime, and energy efficiency as the adoption of artificial intelligence continues to surge across industries.

For decades, IBM Power systems have supported essential operations in sectors such as banking, healthcare, retail, and [...]
Arago Raises €22.1M to Develop Energy-Efficient Photonic AI Chips - 📅 - Paris-based DeepTech startup Arago has raised €22.1 million in seed funding to accelerate the development and commercialization of its photonic processor, a novel computing platform that uses light instead of electricity to power artificial intelligence workloads. The company claims the technology could reduce energy usage in AI systems by up to tenfold compared to today's top-performing GPUs.

Founded less than a year ago, Arago is aiming to radically shift the AI hardware paradigm with its photonic chip codenamed JEF. The processor is based on a proprietary photonic architecture that uses lasers and photons - particles of light - to perform computations, in contrast to traditional [...]
Yondr Group Launches 40MW Frankfurt Data Center - 📅 - Yondr Group has announced the full operational launch of its new 40-megawatt data center located in Bischofsheim, just south of Frankfurt, marking a significant milestone in its rapid expansion across Europe. The facility is the latest addition to the company's growing portfolio of hyperscale data centers and concludes a multi-phase rollout that has seen over 100MW of capacity come online across Europe in the past 12 months.

The Frankfurt deployment completes four ready-for-service (RFS) stages, each delivered through close collaboration with clients from initial design through to final construction. The partnership-focused approach enabled early access to data halls and expedited service [...]
cloud.google.com logoGoogle to Cut U.S. Gov Cloud Costs Amid Trump Pressure on Big Tech - 📅 - In a bid to rein in federal spending, major cloud service providers are responding to mounting pressure from the Trump administration by slashing prices on contracts with the U.S. government. According to the Financial Times citing sources familiar with ongoing negotiations, Google Cloud is now preparing to offer significant reductions in the cost of its cloud computing services for federal agencies - a move expected to be finalized in the coming weeks.

The development comes as part of a broader federal strategy aimed at curbing long-standing, high-cost technology contracts. The General Services Administration (GSA), which oversees federal procurement, is leading the initiative. A senior [...]