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Nvidia $3.5 billion deal boosts MediaTek shares 10%
Nvidia invests $3.5 billion in convertible bonds to integrate its NVLink Fusion platform with MediaTek’s custom AI chip business, expanding data‑center capabilities.
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Sequoia‑incubated Empirik launches with $21M to predict outages before they happen
Empirik, a new observability tool that uses AI to predict infrastructure outages, has raised $21 million in seed funding and is now spinning out as an independent company.
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DataAgent raises $10M to let AI fix production faults inside Kubernetes clusters
Israeli startup DataAgent Ltd. formally launched today with $10 million in pre‑seed funding and a platform that repairs production faults inside customers’ own Kubernetes clusters.
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AWS Adds 2 Million Nvidia GPUs—Its AI Bet Triples in Five Months
Amazon Web Services announces a plan to deploy 2 million additional Nvidia GPUs across its global cloud infrastructure, expanding its AI compute capacity.
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Visual Studio August Update — Work Smarter Across Models and Branches
Microsoft’s latest Visual Studio update gives developers finer control over AI assistance levels, introduces organization‑level custom agents, and adds Git worktree and submodule support.
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Pipelines and ports: Iran war spurs Gulf infrastructure investment
Gulf nations are redirecting billions into pipelines, ports and railways to mitigate the impact of the Strait of Hormuz blockade, reshaping regional logistics.
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Rackspace Technology Launches Rackspace Cloud, Among the First Fully Managed Multitenant Cloud Platforms Built on VMware Cloud Foundation 9.1
Rackspace announced its new managed multitenant cloud platform powered by VMware Cloud Foundation 9.1, targeting enterprises needing governed private cloud for AI workloads.
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Morning Bid: Nvidia vaults over high bar
Nvidia’s Q2 results beat expectations, with data‑center revenue doubling and the company announcing plans to acquire Hugging Face, underscoring its dominance in AI infrastructure.
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Microsoft Moves AI Governance from Policy to Runtime Enforcement
Microsoft announced a new AI governance architecture that shifts from static policy to continuous runtime enforcement, observability, and audit evidence for AI applications.
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Cisco expands rack‑scale secure AI factory infrastructure for neocloud and sovereign clouds
Cisco partners with Super Micro to launch a new Secure AI Factory portfolio, delivering high‑throughput inference and training compute for enterprise AI workloads.
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Nvidia to invest $6 billion to build U.S. open‑weight AI model alternative to China’s DeepSeek, Kimi K3, and Qwen
Nvidia is committing roughly $6 billion to a sweeping deal with AI startup Poolside, aiming to build a powerful U.S. open‑weight AI model and challenge China’s growing lead in downloadable models.
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AWS Lambda functions now support full IAM resource‑based policies
AWS has expanded Lambda’s security model, allowing functions to use full IAM resource‑based policies for granular access control across multi‑account environments.
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Increased HTTP 5xx Errors in Chicago – Cloudflare Incident
Cloudflare experienced elevated HTTP 5xx errors affecting its CDN and cache infrastructure in Chicago’s ORD data center for about an hour on August 24, 2026.
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'We let you down': GitHub pledges to scale up before developers give up
GitHub’s CTO outlined plans to overhaul architecture after two outages, aiming to scale read capacity linearly and improve reliability.
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The August 17 outage, and the work ahead
GitHub’s 7‑hour outage exposed capacity limits in its Central US data center, prompting a multi‑million‑core expansion and a shift to Azure for resilience.
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Announcing General Availability of Managed Instance on Azure App Service
Microsoft announced GA for Managed Instance on Azure App Service, enabling legacy .NET apps to run on a fully managed PaaS platform with enterprise SLA.
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AWS Adds Fourth London Availability Zone for AI Workloads UK
AWS expands its London region with a fourth availability zone, boosting local AI and machine‑learning capacity and resilience.
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Cerebras reimagines AI cluster design with switchless CS‑4 architecture
Cerebras unveiled the CS‑4 rack‑scale AI system that connects wafer‑scale processors without network switches, reducing latency and infrastructure costs.
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Velaura AI raises $110M to develop power‑efficient AI chips
Velaura AI Inc. secured $110 million in a Series A round to build low‑power AI processors, shifting focus from crypto accelerators to AI chip building blocks.
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Alibaba Cloud Opens Third South Korea Datacentre
Alibaba Cloud launched a new datacentre in South Korea, expanding its global network to 104 availability zones and adding AI‑centric services to the region.