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HPE Makes Networking The Control Layer For AI Factories - 📅 - HPE used its Discover conference in Las Vegas to widen its AI infrastructure story, adding self-driving networking, Juniper switching, unified SASE, NVIDIA-backed agentic AI controls and new private cloud capabilities as the company tries to turn AI factories from engineered projects into repeatable operating environments for enterprises, data center teams and regulated buyers at scale.
The message is broad enough to feel almost overstuffed. Networking, security, AI factories, private cloud, GreenLake, sovereign deployments, Vera CPUs, Aruba Central, Mist, Marvis, Zerto, Alletra, Morpheus, OpsRamp. Plenty of product surface area.
Underneath it, though, sits a clearer infrastructure [...]
The message is broad enough to feel almost overstuffed. Networking, security, AI factories, private cloud, GreenLake, sovereign deployments, Vera CPUs, Aruba Central, Mist, Marvis, Zerto, Alletra, Morpheus, OpsRamp. Plenty of product surface area.
Underneath it, though, sits a clearer infrastructure [...]
Copia Raises $26M For Industrial Code Resilience Tools - 📅 - Copia Automation has raised $26 million to expand its industrial code management and recovery platform, taking total funding to $55 million, as manufacturers, utilities and critical infrastructure operators confront a basic problem in operational technology: the code running physical systems often lacks the backup, version control and recovery discipline long standard in enterprise IT environments.
The round was co-led by AE Ventures and Squadra Ventures, with KAS Venture Partners joining and Construct Capital, Lux Capital, Ironspring Ventures and Renegade Partners returning. The financing includes equity and venture debt. That mix says something. Growth capital, but with a [...]
The round was co-led by AE Ventures and Squadra Ventures, with KAS Venture Partners joining and Construct Capital, Lux Capital, Ironspring Ventures and Renegade Partners returning. The financing includes equity and venture debt. That mix says something. Growth capital, but with a [...]
Rackspace Turns AMD Alliance Into 30 MW AI Deployment - 📅 - Rackspace has moved its AMD enterprise AI partnership from memorandum to deployment plan, signing a definitive agreement for an initial 30 MW of AMD-based compute across its global data center footprint from late 2026 through 2028, as cloud providers race to turn AI ambitions into governed infrastructure enterprises might actually trust and buy.The important part is not just the 30 MW figure. It is the move from intent to committed deployment. At least on paper.
The agreement operationalizes the memorandum of understanding announced in May and places AMD deeper inside Rackspace's managed AI proposition, with Instinct GPUs and EPYC CPUs becoming part of what Rackspace calls a governed AI [...]
SpaceX To Acquire Cursor In $60 Billion AI Coding Deal - 📅 - SpaceX is moving ahead with a $60 billion stock-based acquisition of Anysphere, maker of the Cursor AI coding tool, according to a Tuesday regulatory filing, in a deal that would pull one of software development's fastest-growing AI products into Elon Musk's expanding compute, space and artificial intelligence empire by the third quarter of 2026.
The transaction is large enough to make people stop arguing about whether AI coding tools are merely developer productivity software. At this price, Cursor is being treated as distribution, workflow control and strategic leverage. Maybe even as a beachhead into enterprise software engineering budgets that have been moving faster than many chief [...]
The transaction is large enough to make people stop arguing about whether AI coding tools are merely developer productivity software. At this price, Cursor is being treated as distribution, workflow control and strategic leverage. Maybe even as a beachhead into enterprise software engineering budgets that have been moving faster than many chief [...]
Schneider Electric, Foxconn Team Up on AI Data Centers - 📅 - Schneider Electric and Foxconn have agreed to collaborate on AI data center designs, pairing power, cooling and energy-management systems with large-scale manufacturing and AI rack integration, as operators look for faster ways to deploy high-density compute without treating electrical infrastructure, thermal design and supply chains as separate problems. Production is slated to begin later this year globally.The deal is less about one more vendor alliance and more about a problem the data center industry can no longer hide behind glossy capacity announcements. AI infrastructure is not just servers. It is power distribution. Heat rejection. Factory timing. Rack integration. Site [...]
Alice & Bob Opens Early Quantum System To Research Partners - 📅 - Alice & Bob has unveiled the Helium Quantum System for research partners, moving from cat-qubit chip development toward an on-premise machine built around quantum error correction, HPC integration and a planned path from one logical qubit to multiple logical qubits as researchers test whether the architecture can reduce fault-tolerance overhead materially in practice soon at scale reliably.
For enterprise technology buyers, this is not the quantum computing moment they have been promised for decades. It is smaller than that. More technical. Less convenient for anyone hoping for a clean procurement story.
Helium is being made available to research partners, not general commercial [...]
For enterprise technology buyers, this is not the quantum computing moment they have been promised for decades. It is smaller than that. More technical. Less convenient for anyone hoping for a clean procurement story.
Helium is being made available to research partners, not general commercial [...]
firstcolo Breaks Ground on AI-Ready Data Center in Hesse, Germany - 📅 - German data center operator firstcolo has broken ground on its FRA7 colocation data center in Rosbach vor der Höhe, committing about €250 million to a 24MW facility built for cloud, AI, and high-performance computing. The Hesse project will support rack densities up to 200kW, use liquid cooling, and run entirely on certified green electricity when completed for enterprise workloads locally.The headline number is not just the investment. It is the density. A 200kW rack target puts FRA7 in the part of the data center market shaped by accelerator clusters, liquid cooling loops, heavy electrical engineering, and customers whose workloads no longer fit comfortably inside conventional [...]
IREN Buys Spain’s Nostrum to Enter Europe’s AI Cloud Market - 📅 - IREN has closed its acquisition of Spain's Nostrum Group, giving the Sydney-based AI cloud operator its first European foothold and roughly 490MW of secured grid-connected power. The deal, whose financial terms were not disclosed, adds a local data center development team and pipeline aimed at customers chasing scarce AI infrastructure capacity across Europe right now.For infrastructure buyers, the number that matters is not the purchase price. IREN did not disclose it. The number is 490MW. Secured power has become the hard currency of AI infrastructure, particularly in markets where GPUs can be ordered faster than substations can be approved.
IREN, founded in Australia and [...]
Linux 7.1 Lands With Cloud Storage and Kernel Cleanup Shifts - 📅 - Linux kernel 7.1 has landed with a quieter release than its change list suggests, bringing storage rewrites, scheduler groundwork, tighter process controls, and old hardware removals that cloud operators will feel less as drama than as maintenance debt finally coming due across fleets still mixing modern accelerators with stubborn legacy assumptions in production environments worldwide right now.
Linus Torvalds released Linux 7.1 without the kind of late-cycle breakage that forces enterprise buyers to stop reading after the first paragraph. Fine. But the bigger story is not that the kernel shipped cleanly. It is what has been moved closer to the center of Linux as the operating system [...]
Linus Torvalds released Linux 7.1 without the kind of late-cycle breakage that forces enterprise buyers to stop reading after the first paragraph. Fine. But the bigger story is not that the kernel shipped cleanly. It is what has been moved closer to the center of Linux as the operating system [...]
EU Challenges US AI Controls After Anthropic Model Cutoff - 📅 - European officials are treating Anthropic's sudden cutoff of its top AI models as more than a vendor outage, after a U.S. export control order forced the company to disable Fable 5 and Mythos 5 for foreign users, raising new questions over sovereign AI, cloud dependence and Washington's expanding control over model access for allies too now abruptly.
The European Commission said it is assessing the practical effects of the U.S. directive, while warning that such measures should not discriminate against partners. That is diplomatic language. The reaction across parts of Europe is less restrained: if a U.S. agency can force a frontier AI provider to shut off access to foreign users with [...]
The European Commission said it is assessing the practical effects of the U.S. directive, while warning that such measures should not discriminate against partners. That is diplomatic language. The reaction across parts of Europe is less restrained: if a U.S. agency can force a frontier AI provider to shut off access to foreign users with [...]