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Developer tooling startup Convex closed a $57 million Series B led by Insight Partners, boosting its total funding to $110.5 million and positioning its backend as AI‑agent‑friendly.
Microsoft’s August 2026 Windows 11 update introduces an on‑device AI removal option, enhanced fingerprint security, and improved voice access, addressing long‑standing user complaints.
The province has started repaving a 10‑km stretch of Highway 63 to improve safety and traffic flow after community pressure and a $15 million pledge.
Investors are pouring record sums into AI projects across Latin America and Africa, driving a surge in data‑center and digital infrastructure deals.
Data Center Knowledge highlights AI‑centric data center projects announced in August, including Meta’s 1 GW campus in Alberta and Microsoft’s new 64‑acre plot in Norway.
Anthropic is building a custom chip team to design its own AI hardware, aiming to boost performance and efficiency.
Nvidia announced the open‑source cuFile API, which enhances GPU read/write performance for high‑speed storage systems, improving data throughput for AI and HPC workloads.
NVIDIA introduces the Rubin chip architecture, enabling AI workloads directly on personal devices and expanding its AI hardware portfolio.
Microsoft is routing tens of thousands of productivity prompts to its own MAI models, with Copilot now using MAI‑Code‑1‑Flash as the default backend, marking a shift to first‑party AI infrastructure.
Samsung has removed smart TV apps that route users’ internet traffic through residential proxy networks, citing security risks after research by Mnemonic.
Israeli startup Arrakis Security secured an $8 million seed round to build runtime controls for enterprise AI agents, addressing the growing need for agent governance.
Google Cloud announced a new version of its Network Load Balancer that supports global external passthrough, improving latency and cross‑region failover for real‑time applications.
Cloudflare unveiled Meerkat, a new globally consistent control‑plane service based on the QuePaxa consensus algorithm, enabling leaderless writes while preserving strong consistency across its network.
AMD unveiled Instella‑MoE‑16B‑A3B, a 16B parameter open‑source Mixture‑of‑Experts language model that activates only 2.8B parameters per token, trained from scratch on Instinct MI300X and MI325X GPUs.
Google Cloud’s monthly blog highlights new AI infrastructure releases, including managed Lustre, C4N VMs, and GKE Dataplane V2, all announced on July 31, 2026.
A Katalyst Space robot tasked with raising the Swift Observatory failed to stabilize, raising questions about private‑sector space operations.
Microsoft announced a new AI model that reduces cybersecurity expenses by half, leveraging specialized models for threat detection and response.
Enterprise spending on cloud infrastructure services hit a record $143.4 billion in Q2 2026, driven by generative‑AI workloads and expanding hyperscale and neocloud providers.
A Currence report warns that 30‑50% of announced 2026 data‑center capacity may be delayed due to power constraints and construction bottlenecks.
Amazon Web Services launched the general availability of AWS Interconnect, a multicloud networking product that connects AWS with Oracle Cloud Infrastructure and Google Cloud.