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| SpaceXAI Taps NVIDIA CPU to Accelerate Agentic AI Ambitions NVIDIA announced that SpaceXAI will deploy NVIDIA Vera CPUs to support ambitious agentic AI growth. Click for this and more AI infrastructure news. |
| US Military Awards Accrete's Argus for Cognitive Advantage Platform Accrete, the cognitive infrastructure company, secured a sole-source contract with the U.S. Marine Corps for its Argus for Cognitive Advantage platform. This system deploys Expert AI Agents to empower better decision-making by analyzing narrative development across open-source data. Argus's video vision capability reduces video content analysis from hours to minutes, including transcription and translation across 243 languages. |
| Video Surveillance to Hit $15.55B by 2031 MarketsandMarkets reports the global video surveillance storage market is projected to reach $15.55 billion by 2031, growing from $10.93 billion in 2026 with a CAGR of 7.3%. This growth is fueled by increasing deployment of high-resolution IP cameras, smart city initiatives, and stricter data retention mandates. Hard disk drives are expected to maintain the largest market share, while HCI-based surveillance storage and solid state drives show the highest growth rates. |
| BL Networks Boosts Global Infrastructure, Announces Upgrades BL Networks is expanding its global infrastructure with major upgrades across new data center regions in Singapore, Amsterdam, Bucharest, and Dallas. This multi-year project enhances its privacy-VPS provider, BitLaunch, by delivering high-performance and low-latency networking. The upgraded infrastructure features Dell servers, Intel Gold CPUs, Samsung Enterprise SSDs, and 20 Gbps speeds. |
| Vietnam's Viettel Expands to Dominican Republic Viettel Group expands its international footprint by entering the Dominican Republic, establishing its 11th overseas market. Viettel Global secured significant spectrum for 20 years, enabling the deployment of modern 4G and 5G networks. The company plans substantial infrastructure investments to provide extensive coverage, especially in underserved areas. |
| Cloverleaf NVIDIA Unite to Speed AI Data Center Development Cloverleaf Infrastructure and NVIDIA have formed a strategic partnership to accelerate digital infrastructure development across the United States. NVIDIA made a minority investment in Cloverleaf to support the build-out of AI factories. This collaboration will help customers and utility partners meet the increasing demand for accelerated computing, leveraging Cloverleaf's expertise in power and site development. |
| MTN MoMo Platform Modernized by Ericsson for Ambition 2030 Ericsson has completed the Mobile Money Evolved Migration for MTN Group Fintech across key African markets, including Eswatini, Ghana, Rwanda, and Uganda. This transition to a cloud-native architecture significantly improves platform performance and operational efficiency, laying a scalable foundation to support MTN's Ambition 2030 strategy and expand digital financial services across Africa. |
| BigHand Moves Legal BI Solution to Microsoft Fabric BigHand is moving its Business Intelligence solution to Microsoft Fabric, migrating existing BI 4.0 Cloud customers in September. This new architecture brings BigHand's legal-specific data model and over 600 pre-built financial and operational measures into the Microsoft environment. It provides law firms a ready-made foundation for analyzing profitability, WIP, utilization, and performance without building logic from scratch. |
| TIER IV Partners OIN 2.0 for Autonomous Driving TIER IV, a leader in open-source autonomous driving software, has joined Open Invention Network (OIN) 2.0. This partnership aims to protect open-source software, particularly Autoware, from patent risks. By participating in OIN's expanded patent non-aggression framework, TIER IV ensures that automakers, suppliers, and semiconductor manufacturers can confidently use open-source technologies. |
| SageMaker AI Studio Simplifies Generative AI Inference Optimization Amazon SageMaker AI Studio now integrates Generative AI Inference Recommendations, offering a guided, low-code, no-code solution for customers to efficiently identify the best inference configurations for their workloads. This new capability streamlines the complex process of deploying generative AI models by benchmarking various setups on real GPU infrastructure with NVIDIA AIPerf, delivering ranked, production-ready recommendations. |
| Tech Mahindra ServiceNow Partnership Delivers Enterprise AI Tech Mahindra and ServiceNow expanded their multi-year partnership to accelerate enterprise AI deployment. Their collaboration combines ServiceNow's AI Platform with Tech Mahindra's industry expertise. The focus is on moving global organizations from AI pilots to production-scale, outcome-led programs. The 'Client Zero' approach validates solutions within Tech Mahindra before wider deployment. |
| ION Network boosts Indonesia connectivity with Ciena WaveLogic 6 Extreme ION Network is deploying Ciena's WaveLogic 6 Extreme on its new ICS1 submarine cable system to enhance network reliability and deliver high-bandwidth services across Bali, Java, and Sumatra in Indonesia. This strategic deployment will connect over 250,000 homes, building a robust foundation for the nation's expanding digital economy. The ICS1 system, spanning over 2,000 km, will leverage Ciena’s 6500 platform to provide up to 288 Tb/s of total capacity. |
| Carousel Enhances Amazon Signage Integration Carousel announced new management and monitoring capabilities for its Amazon Signage Stick integration. These enhancements, enabled by Amazon Signage's Remote Management APIs, offer operators greater control over deployments. Features include over-the-air updates, Power Save for displays, display rotation, model identification, and resource monitoring for CPU, memory, and disk usage. |
| SoftBank and Ericsson Demo First AI in RAN 5G Trial in Japan SoftBank and Ericsson have successfully conducted Japan's first trial of Ericsson AI in RAN software on a 5G commercial network. This validation demonstrated significant gains in spectral efficiency and user throughput, marking a crucial step towards AI-native mobile networks. The real-time AI optimization adapts to changing radio conditions, enhancing performance and efficiency. |
| EE Launches UK First Fast Lane 5G+ Network Slice for Peak Times EE has launched Fast Lane, a UK-first commercial network slice on its 5G+ network, designed to provide dedicated connectivity for consumers and small businesses during peak congestion. This innovative service seamlessly moves users into a high-performance lane, ensuring uninterrupted streaming, sharing, and access to platforms even when the network is busiest. Fast Lane builds on successful 5G+ network slicing trials and represents a significant advancement in mobile connectivity. |
| Charter and Cox Close Transaction Charter Communications (NASDAQ: CHTR) finalized its acquisition of Cox Communications and Liberty Broadband, creating a major broadband and video provider. This merger expands Spectrum's footprint to 45 states, enhancing connectivity and video services. Cox Enterprises now holds approximately 26% of the combined entity. Spectrum will introduce new pricing and packaging mid-September, including a free mobile line for one year for existing Cox internet customers. |
| Corero Bolsters SmartWall ONE with AI-Augmented Cloud-Assist Corero Network Security launched AI-Augmented Cloud-Assist for SmartWall ONE. It enhances automated DDoS protection with cloud AI analysis and threat intelligence for policy optimization. This counters sophisticated cyberattacks, enabling faster, precise mitigation. The system creates an intelligence loop between Corero's cloud and SmartWall ONE deployments. AI analyzes attack telemetry, recommends protection policies, improving accuracy and efficiency. |
| WhatsApp Launches On-Device AI Scam Alert WhatsApp introduces Scam Alert, a new optional on-device AI feature designed to protect user privacy by detecting potential scam messages locally. The feature leverages machine learning models that process all data on the user's device, ensuring no message content is sent to WhatsApp or Meta. Users maintain full control over activation, reporting, and managing flagged conversations, supported by verifiable privacy measures. |
| Skanska Wins $1.2 Billion US Data Center Project Skanska has secured a contract valued at $1.2 billion (approximately SEK 11.2 billion) to construct four new data centers in the southeastern United States. This agreement, made with an existing client, is slated for inclusion in Skanska's US order bookings for the third quarter of 2026. |
| Amdocs partners with Telefonica Chile to Accelerate Transnational Technological Operations Amdocs announced its multi-year agreement with Telefonica Chile S.A and Telefonica Moviles Chile S.A, operated by Millicom. Through this new partnership, Telefonica Chile will deploy Amdocs’ full-stack BSS/OSS suite, powered by AI-driven application management. This creates a scalable operating model designed to simplify product portfolios, accelerate time-to-market, and strengthen service performance across Latin America. |
| Salesforce Headless 360 Powers AI Agents Across Enterprise Salesforce is significantly expanding its Headless 360 platform, transforming every cloud into reusable enterprise capabilities for the agentic era. New Model Context Protocol (MCP) servers, Data 360, Slack integrations, and developer tools empower authorized AI agents to securely discover, understand, and take action across the enterprise, building on Salesforce's long history of openness and API innovation. |
| Diraq Establishes Quantum Lab in Chicago Diraq, the quantum computing developer, opened its first US laboratory in Chicago, expanding R&D capacity and strengthening its US presence. The Chicago facility provides dedicated cryogenic and measurement infrastructure for testing silicon quantum technology and qubit measurements, complementing Sydney operations. |
| Keeper Security Integrates Secrets Manager with MSFT Azure Logic Apps Keeper Security launched a certified connector for Microsoft Power Platform, integrating Keeper Secrets Manager with Azure Logic Apps. This allows enterprise teams to manage and retrieve credentials at runtime within automated workflows, eliminating hardcoded secrets. Keeper’s zero-knowledge architecture encrypts sensitive values in the Keeper Vault, decrypting them only as needed within the customer's Azure environment. |
| IBM Links Modular Cryogenic Systems for Quantum Leap IBM successfully connected and cooled two modular cryogenic systems into a single environment, a key milestone toward fault-tolerant quantum computing. This new architecture scales to link hundreds of quantum chips into powerful computers. The modules, over 8 feet tall and wide, cool to below 15 millikelvin in under five days. Each offers 12 times more wiring space for chip-to-chip connections using L-couplers. |
| Amazon Bedrock Adds SpaceXAI Grok 4.6 AI Model Support Amazon Bedrock has expanded its capabilities by adding support for SpaceXAI Grok 4.6, the latest flagship model designed for long-running agents and complex interactive and visual tasks. Grok 4.6 boasts an impressive 500K context window and offers configurable reasoning efforts, enabling frontier intelligence across coding and knowledge work benchmarks. |
