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Craneware, a UK‑based healthcare billing software maker, suffered a data breach that exposed customer and employee data used by hospitals and pharmacies across the US.
OpenAI announced a new 3.2 GW data‑center project in Georgia, contracting power from Georgia Power and pledging significant investment in local infrastructure and community funds.
Google Cloud announces general availability of Cloud Run service health, enabling automatic cross‑region failover for serverless workloads following a recent data‑center outage.
OpenAI announced it will spend $750 billion on infrastructure through 2030, including a $20 billion data‑center campus in Georgia.
StackQL released a major update to its Azure provider, expanding coverage to 268 services and adding a comprehensive AI surface with 20 new AI‑related services, enhancing data‑plane and control‑plane integration.
TYLsemi closes a $43 million round to deliver a full‑stack chiplet portfolio that speeds custom AI silicon design, targeting hyperscalers and startups alike.
Microsoft announced it will deploy AMD’s new Helios rack‑scale AI system in Azure data centers, marking a significant shift in AI infrastructure competition.
Microsoft ships stable Agent Skills for Python, enabling teams to package domain expertise into reusable, governed bundles that can be loaded on demand by agents.
Microsoft unveiled managed Ray, AI Runway, and free system node pools for AKS, positioning Azure Kubernetes Service as the control plane for distributed AI workloads.
NVIDIA partners with Noetra Corp. to build the Vera Rubin AI factory in Japan, delivering 140 MW of data‑center capacity and enabling open multimodal foundation models for physical AI.
Google Cloud released a comprehensive AI workload security framework for its Kubernetes Engine, detailing infrastructure, model, and application‑level safeguards for AI deployments.
A configuration change caused Google Cloud’s VMware Engine to lose inter‑zone network resilience, disrupting stretched cluster connectivity for some customers.
Governor Hochul signs an executive order pausing permits for hyperscale data centers, citing AI‑driven power demands and environmental concerns.
Microsoft’s Azure Copilot Observability Agent now autonomously triages alerts and runs deep investigations, reducing noise for ops teams.
3M will deploy its Expanded Beam Optical technology in Microsoft Azure data centers, while Microsoft will adopt 3M’s AI tools across enterprise functions.
Meta announced a $9.17 billion investment in a 1 GW data‑centre campus in Sturgeon County, Alberta, marking its first Canadian facility and a major expansion of its global compute footprint.
Valarian, a European defense‑focused cloud sovereignty startup, raised $50 million to provide governments and enterprises with alternatives to U.S. cloud providers, strengthening infrastructure independence.
SambaNova Systems raised $1 billion at an $11 billion valuation to expand its inference hardware and on‑premise deployments.
BNB Chain’s new platform lets developers launch autonomous on‑chain AI agents in under 15 minutes, using Amazon Bedrock’s AgentCore for persistent cloud hosting and pay‑per‑use billing.
NVIDIA expands its cloud gaming service by adding a new high‑performance server in Toronto, powered by the RTX 5080 GPU.