AI Infrastructure

Twitter

Facebook

Copy Link

Key Facts

Key PlayersNVIDIA, AWS, CoreWeave

Top News

GitLab cuts 14% of staff to rebuild infrastructure for AI agents and agentic workloads

Developer platform GitLab has laid off approximately 350 employees, representing 14% of its workforce, while exiting 22 countries as part of a major restructuring effort. The company is investing heavily in rebuilding its infrastructure to handle AI workloads and agentic systems that are pushing developer platforms to their limits, despite reporting strong Q1 revenue growth of 23%.

Business2 sources

GitLab cuts 14% of staff to rebuild infrastructure for AI agents and agentic workloads

Business2 sources

Xos Inc launches Power Hub to solve AI data centers' energy crisis amid grid delays

Xos Inc has unveiled its Power Hub series, a mobile energy storage system designed to deliver megawatt-scale power to AI data centers within days instead of years. The containerized solution addresses critical grid connection delays that can stretch up to seven years, as electricity demand from AI infrastructure is projected to double by 2030.

Technology2 sources

Xos Inc launches Power Hub to solve AI data centers' energy crisis amid grid delays

Technology2 sources

Europe unveils tech sovereignty plan to cut dependence on US cloud, AI and semiconductor firms

The European Commission has introduced a sweeping European Technological Sovereignty Package aimed at reducing the bloc's heavy reliance on American technology companies. The plan includes new legislation to boost European cloud computing, AI infrastructure, and semiconductor development while creating restrictions on foreign providers handling sensitive government data. The move comes amid growing concerns over data privacy and geopolitical security, as the EU seeks to eliminate what officials call a potential 'kill switch' controlled by foreign governments.

Policy10 sources

Europe unveils tech sovereignty plan to cut dependence on US cloud, AI and semiconductor firms

Policy10 sources

Workday Data Cloud integrates with AWS, giving developers direct access to governed HR and finance data

Workday announced that Workday Data Cloud will integrate with Amazon Web Services, providing developers with bi-directional zero-copy access to governed HR and finance data. The integration eliminates the need for custom pipelines or data duplication, allowing developers to use AWS tools and AI services directly with Workday's data layer while maintaining security and governance controls.

Technology2 sources

Workday Data Cloud integrates with AWS, giving developers direct access to governed HR and finance data

Technology2 sources

Netskope launches AI Command Center to secure exploding enterprise AI adoption with unified platform

Netskope unveiled its AI Command Center, a unified platform that discovers AI assets, correlates risk intelligence, and automates responses across enterprise environments. With average organizations seeing a fivefold increase in AI applications and 223 monthly AI data policy violations, the platform addresses critical visibility gaps affecting 94% of enterprises while introducing autonomous AISecOps agents.

Technology3 sources

Netskope launches AI Command Center to secure exploding enterprise AI adoption with unified platform

Technology3 sources

Megaport raises $594M to build distributed AI inference cloud across 1,100 data centers

Australian networking company Megaport secured four new AI infrastructure contracts worth $329M with US technology providers and launched a $594M capital raise to pivot from network plumbing to compute. The company plans to build a globally distributed AI inference cloud using Nvidia GPUs across its existing footprint of over 1,100 data centers in 31 countries.

Business2 sources

Megaport raises $594M to build distributed AI inference cloud across 1,100 data centers

Business2 sources

Microchip Technology launches XpressConnect Retimers to tackle latency in AI Data Centers

Microchip Technology has unveiled XpressConnect PCIe 6.0 and CXL 3.1 retimers designed to solve critical latency and signal integrity challenges in AI data centers. The retimers achieve pin-to-pin latency of less than 12 ns—approximately 80% lower than PCIe 6.0 specifications—helping improve utilization of AI accelerators and GPUs while extending signal reach beyond conventional limits.

Technology2 sources

Microchip Technology launches XpressConnect Retimers to tackle latency in AI Data Centers

Technology2 sources

Cognizant and CrowdStrike expand alliance to secure AI agents, models, and infrastructure

Cognizant has expanded its strategic alliance with CrowdStrike to integrate the Falcon platform into its AI Factory and Managed Cybersecurity Services. The partnership addresses growing security challenges as enterprises deploy autonomous AI agents at scale, with CrowdStrike naming Cognizant its 2026 Americas Velocity Partner of the Year.

Technology2 sources

Cognizant and CrowdStrike expand alliance to secure AI agents, models, and infrastructure

Technology2 sources

SK Hynix to double wafer capacity by 2030 as AI boom drives HBM demand

SK Hynix announced plans to double its wafer capacity over the next five years, driven by surging demand for high-bandwidth memory chips used in AI systems. Chairman Chey Tae-won warned that memory supply bottlenecks could persist through 2030, while expressing hopes to become a major HBM supplier for Nvidia's upcoming Vera Rubin system.

Business2 sources

SK Hynix to double wafer capacity by 2030 as AI boom drives HBM demand

Business2 sources

Microsoft unveils Rayfin to turn Fabric into an enterprise AI application runtime

Microsoft introduced Rayfin at Build 2026, an open-source SDK that lets developers and AI agents build application backends and deploy them directly to Microsoft Fabric. The tool addresses a critical gap in enterprise AI: preventing data silos while maintaining governance as coding agents generate applications faster than teams can manage them.

Technology3 sources

Microsoft unveils Rayfin to turn Fabric into an enterprise AI application runtime

Technology3 sources

Akamai and Nvidia expand AI factory security collaboration with Zero Trust integration

Akamai Technologies and Nvidia announced an expanded partnership to integrate advanced security capabilities into AI infrastructure. The collaboration brings Akamai Guardicore Segmentation to Nvidia Vera BlueField-4 STX storage architecture, implementing Zero Trust security within AI factory environments to protect against increasingly sophisticated LLM-driven cyber threats.

Technology2 sources

Akamai and Nvidia expand AI factory security collaboration with Zero Trust integration

Technology2 sources

AI agents give confident wrong answers without enterprise context layer, Snowflake responds

AI agents are producing different answers from the same data because business logic is fragmented across systems. Snowflake unveiled Horizon Context and Cortex Sense at Summit 2026 to create a shared governed definition of business logic. The move addresses why hybrid retrieval intent tripled to 33.3% in March as enterprises struggle with AI agents that lack a common understanding of business data.

Technology5 sources

AI agents give confident wrong answers without enterprise context layer, Snowflake responds

Technology5 sources

Allen Institute launches $400M Brain Health Accelerator to develop gene therapies for brain diseases

The Allen Institute is shifting from mapping the brain to treating brain disease with a $400 million initiative targeting Alzheimer's, Parkinson's, ALS, and Huntington's. The Brain Health Accelerator aims to develop gene therapies that target specific cells and circuits affected by disease, with clinical trials expected within five years.

Science3 sources

Allen Institute launches $400M Brain Health Accelerator to develop gene therapies for brain diseases

Science3 sources

Cisco launches Cloud Control platform to harness AI agents across enterprise infrastructure

Cisco introduced Cloud Control at Cisco Live in Las Vegas, a unified operations platform designed to manage AI agents alongside human teams across networking, security, and infrastructure domains. The platform includes AI Canvas for collaborative investigations, Cloud Control Studio for building custom agents, and Live Protect for runtime security—marking what executives call Cisco's most consequential product announcement in years.

Technology14 sources

Cisco launches Cloud Control platform to harness AI agents across enterprise infrastructure

Technology14 sources

Agentic AI Drives Surge in Data Center CPU Demand as Intel Unveils 36,864-Core Rack Systems

The rise of agentic AI is fundamentally reshaping data center infrastructure, driving an unexpected surge in demand for data center CPUs. Intel unveiled rack-scale reference designs packing up to 36,864 cores at Computex 2026, while AMD reports CPU market growth has doubled to 35% annually. As AI agents require continuous orchestration and multi-step task coordination, the CPU to GPU ratio is shifting dramatically from the early days of generative AI.

Technology3 sources

Agentic AI Drives Surge in Data Center CPU Demand as Intel Unveils 36,864-Core Rack Systems

Technology3 sources

Prev 1…394041…138 Next