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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.
Amazon closed its San Francisco AGI lab and redirected resources toward enterprise AI deployment, signaling a shift from frontier model research to customer‑centric solutions.
The U.S. AI chip startup Etched announced a $10.3 billion valuation after securing backing from SK Hynix, positioning its custom processors to address power‑efficient inference workloads.
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.
AWS recorded a 37% sales surge in Q2, driven by AI services and high margins, reinforcing its position as a cloud leader.
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.
NXP Semiconductor is negotiating to buy Ambarella, a key player in autonomous‑driving camera chips, potentially reshaping the automotive AI chip market.
A Katalyst Space robot tasked with raising the Swift Observatory failed to stabilize, raising questions about private‑sector space operations.
Antares Nuclear, a small‑modular‑reactor startup, secured $470 million in a Series C to support the construction of reactors for U.S. military bases, driven by data‑center power demand.
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.
Microsoft reported strong cloud revenue growth and a robust capital‑expenditure forecast, underscoring the financial impact of its AI investments.
Microsoft’s Q4 2026 earnings showed a 31% increase in revenue, driven by Azure surpassing $100 billion in annual revenue and strong growth in AI‑powered services.
British AI neocloud Nscale announced a $1.65 billion acquisition of Anyscale, a startup that scales AI workloads across data centers.
A Currence report warns that 30‑50% of announced 2026 data‑center capacity may be delayed due to power constraints and construction bottlenecks.
Researchers showed that large language models can be tricked into revealing disallowed content by spoofing chain‑of‑thought prompts, exposing a core weakness in current guardrails.
Amazon Web Services launched the general availability of AWS Interconnect, a multicloud networking product that connects AWS with Oracle Cloud Infrastructure and Google Cloud.
The cloud‑security startup Act Security has secured $60 million to launch an action‑centric platform that protects enterprises from AI‑agent access risks in large‑scale cloud environments.
1inch announced the public launch of Aqua, a self‑custodial shared liquidity layer that lets providers use a single wallet balance across multiple positions without locking assets in pools.
We’re excited to announce Self Exclusion, a free Chrome extension from UX Century that blocks 350,000+ casino and betting sites — with a cool-down lock so protection isn’t easy to shut off on impulse.