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Casimir Raises $12M to Commercialize Quantum Energy Chips - 📅 - Quantum energy startup Casimir has raised an oversubscribed $12 million seed round to commercialize semiconductor chips designed to harvest energy from quantum vacuum fields. The company, founded by former NASA propulsion researcher Harold "Sonny" White, says its battery-free MicroSparc chips could power embedded electronics continuously without charging, replacement cycles, cables, or conventional external power infrastructure for devices.
The pitch sounds almost deliberately provocative.
A 5mm by 5mm semiconductor chip producing continuous electrical power without a battery. No charging port. No replacement cycle. Casimir says the first-generation MicroSparc device can generate 1.5 [...]
The pitch sounds almost deliberately provocative.
A 5mm by 5mm semiconductor chip producing continuous electrical power without a battery. No charging port. No replacement cycle. Casimir says the first-generation MicroSparc device can generate 1.5 [...]
Fractile Secures $220M to Advance AI Inference Chips - 📅 - Fractile has raised $220 million to accelerate development of inference hardware designed for large AI models that increasingly spend more time generating outputs than training them. The London-founded startup argues today's chips are already struggling with workloads involving tens of millions of tokens, where responses can take weeks. Investors include Accel, Founders Fund, and Factorial Funds alongside several returning backers globally.
For the past two years, the AI industry has obsessed over training. Bigger clusters, larger parameter counts, endless procurement battles over NVIDIA GPUs. Fractile thinks the more immediate problem sits elsewhere now: inference latency.
The company, [...]
For the past two years, the AI industry has obsessed over training. Bigger clusters, larger parameter counts, endless procurement battles over NVIDIA GPUs. Fractile thinks the more immediate problem sits elsewhere now: inference latency.
The company, [...]
NorthC Restarts Dutch Data Center After Major Fire - 📅 - NorthC has restored temporary power and cooling at its fire-damaged Almere data center in the Netherlands, enabling customers to begin phased restarts of critical IT systems nearly a week after a major blaze disrupted Dutch digital infrastructure services. Engineers activated the temporary redundant power installation and cooling systems this morning at 09:30 am (CET), while investigators separately launched an inquiry into the cause of the fire and the timeline for reconnecting the facility to the regular power grid.The immediate crisis at NorthC's Almere facility is shifting into something more operationally awkward. Customers are now being brought back online in phases rather than all [...]
Saturn Cloud And Mirantis Build AI Stack For GPU Clouds - 📅 - AI infrastructure providers are discovering that renting GPU capacity is the easy part. Operating a usable AI platform at scale is becoming the harder business problem. Saturn Cloud and Mirantis are now trying to close that gap through a partnership that combines Kubernetes-native infrastructure automation with managed AI development environments for enterprises and neocloud operators worldwide today.
The timing is not accidental. GPU infrastructure demand continues to outpace operational maturity across much of the market. Plenty of providers can rack NVIDIA systems, deploy Kubernetes clusters and expose compute capacity through APIs. Fewer can offer an integrated environment where AI [...]
The timing is not accidental. GPU infrastructure demand continues to outpace operational maturity across much of the market. Plenty of providers can rack NVIDIA systems, deploy Kubernetes clusters and expose compute capacity through APIs. Fewer can offer an integrated environment where AI [...]
HPE Expands Private Cloud Stack for AI and Hybrid Data - 📅 - HPE is widening its private cloud and data infrastructure portfolio as enterprises struggle with a less glamorous side of AI adoption: operational sprawl. On Tuesday, the company unveiled updates across HPE GreenLake, Alletra Storage, Zerto, and Data Fabric software, targeting customers trying to stitch together virtual machines, containers, AI data pipelines, and ransomware recovery without adding another layer of management overhead or infrastructure debt across sprawling environments today.
HPE's pitch is straightforward enough. AI workloads are creating pressure far beyond GPUs. Enterprises suddenly need faster storage architectures, more predictable recovery systems, Kubernetes [...]
HPE's pitch is straightforward enough. AI workloads are creating pressure far beyond GPUs. Enterprises suddenly need faster storage architectures, more predictable recovery systems, Kubernetes [...]
Nebius Breaks Ground on Missouri AI Factory - 📅 - Nebius has started construction on a sprawling AI infrastructure campus in Independence, Missouri, marking the company's first gigawatt-scale project in the United States. The AI cloud provider says the multi-building facility will anchor its long-term American expansion while adding pressure to an already overheated race for power, land, cooling capacity, and high-density digital infrastructure across regional markets.
The project covers roughly 400 acres on the eastern side of Independence and immediately places Nebius into a category occupied by hyperscalers, colocation giants, and a growing collection of AI infrastructure operators trying to secure enough electricity and physical [...]
The project covers roughly 400 acres on the eastern side of Independence and immediately places Nebius into a category occupied by hyperscalers, colocation giants, and a growing collection of AI infrastructure operators trying to secure enough electricity and physical [...]
PacketFabric Expands Hiring as AI Fuels Network Demand - 📅 - PacketFabric is expanding its leadership and engineering ranks as demand for AI infrastructure begins exposing an uncomfortable truth across enterprise IT: GPUs are useless if the network underneath them cannot keep up. The Network-as-a-Service provider has added senior executives, cloud-focused sales staff, and technical hires in recent weeks while accelerating recruitment across operations and reliability engineering amid growing enterprise connectivity pressures globally.
The AI infrastructure market has spent the last two years obsessing over chips, power availability, and data center capacity. Networking rarely made headlines unless something failed.
Now it is becoming harder to [...]
The AI infrastructure market has spent the last two years obsessing over chips, power availability, and data center capacity. Networking rarely made headlines unless something failed.
Now it is becoming harder to [...]
MongoDB Builds Enterprise AI Stack Around Agent Workloads - 📅 - MongoDB is expanding its database platform deeper into enterprise artificial intelligence infrastructure, adding integrated vector search, automated embeddings, persistent memory, and cross-cloud connectivity features aimed at companies attempting to move AI agents from experimental pilots into production systems operating across regulated and large-scale enterprise environments worldwide today under growing performance and compliance pressure.
The company announced the new capabilities during MongoDB.local London 2026, framing the database itself as the operational foundation for enterprise AI agents rather than simply a storage layer sitting underneath applications.
That distinction [...]
The company announced the new capabilities during MongoDB.local London 2026, framing the database itself as the operational foundation for enterprise AI agents rather than simply a storage layer sitting underneath applications.
That distinction [...]
Oracle Moves To Monthly Patches As AI Threats Accelerate - 📅 - Oracle is accelerating its security patch schedule in response to AI-driven vulnerability discovery, introducing monthly critical security updates for enterprise software customers as cybersecurity teams face increasing pressure from automated threat detection tools capable of identifying software flaws faster than traditional quarterly remediation cycles were designed to handle across modern cloud and enterprise infrastructure environments worldwide today.
The company will continue releasing its traditional quarterly Critical Patch Updates, but beginning this month it will also issue monthly Critical Security Patch Updates targeting high-severity vulnerabilities across Oracle ERP [...]
The company will continue releasing its traditional quarterly Critical Patch Updates, but beginning this month it will also issue monthly Critical Security Patch Updates targeting high-severity vulnerabilities across Oracle ERP [...]
Micron Ships 245TB SSD As AI Server Storage Needs Surge - 📅 - Micron has started shipping a 245TB solid-state drive aimed directly at AI infrastructure operators, introducing storage density levels that could significantly alter how hyperscalers, cloud providers, and dedicated server companies design AI clusters, data lakes, and high-capacity storage environments as the industry struggles with power limitations, rack availability, cooling demands, and rapidly expanding machine learning datasets worldwide today.
The new Micron 6600 ION SSD arrives at a strange moment for infrastructure markets. AI servers are becoming larger, denser, hotter, and more power-hungry at the exact time data center operators are running into physical limits around [...]
The new Micron 6600 ION SSD arrives at a strange moment for infrastructure markets. AI servers are becoming larger, denser, hotter, and more power-hungry at the exact time data center operators are running into physical limits around [...]