Salute and Ecolab Target DTC Liquid Cooling Complexity in AI Data Centers
Salute announced a partnership with Ecolab to embed the latter’s Cooling‑as‑a‑Service (CaaS) into Salute’s Direct‑to‑Chip (DTC) liquid‑cooling operations. The joint offering streamlines management of the “tech loop,” the circulatory system that regulates coolant flow in AI‑focused data centers. By leveraging Ecolab’s water‑management, smart distribution units, connected coolants and 3D TRASAR monitoring, the service aims to cut downtime and protect high‑density AI investments. Early adopters include a growing list of hyperscale and edge operators across more than 102 markets.
Altera and Arm Collaborate to Deliver Efficient, Programmable Solutions for AI Data Centers
Altera announced an expanded partnership with Arm, integrating its data‑center‑grade FPGAs with Arm’s new AGI CPU built on the Neoverse CSS V3 architecture. The joint solution targets AI‑focused data centers, offering low‑latency, highly flexible and scalable compute platforms. Leveraging Altera’s established...
Bell Canada Expands Sovereign AI Fabric with BUZZ HPC GPU Capacity
Bell Canada announced an expansion of its Bell AI Fabric through a partnership with BUZZ High Performance Computing, adding 6.5 MW of GPU‑accelerated capacity at the Merritt, British Columbia data centre. The new liquid‑cooled, high‑density GPU clusters will be operational within...
Fujitsu and University of Osaka Develop New Tech for Chemical Material Energy Calculations on Early-FTQC Quantum Computers
Fujitsu and the University of Osaka have unveiled a new technology that couples the third version of Fujitsu’s STAR quantum architecture with a novel molecular model optimization technique. The combined approach dramatically lowers the quantum resources needed for chemical energy...
QC Ware and CQE to Co-Host Q2B X Chicago Quantum Summit
QC Ware and the Chicago Quantum Exchange are co‑hosting the Q2B26 × Chicago Quantum Summit from December 8‑10, 2026, at the Marriott Marquis and McCormick Place. The event merges Q2B’s business‑focused agenda with the Summit’s research and economic‑development emphasis, creating a full‑stack quantum...
Crusoe and Redwood Materials Expand AI Data Center Deployment to 24 Modular Units in Nevada
Crusoe and Redwood Materials announced an expansion of their Nevada AI compute campus to 24 Crusoe Spark modular data centers. The upgrade raises total compute capacity roughly seven times the original deployment while still relying on the existing 12 MW/63 MWh renewable...
UCSD Aims to Make HPC an ‘Everyday Toolbox’ for Undergrads, Not a ‘Rare Privilege’
The University of California, San Diego has launched a program that gives undergraduate students direct access to Expanse, the university’s 5‑petaflop supercomputer. Partnering the School of Computing, Information and Data Sciences with the San Diego Supercomputer Center, the initiative integrates...
Pawsey Opens Call for PULSE Collaborations to Accelerate Research Impact in Australia
The Pawsey Supercomputing Research Centre has launched a new call for PULSE Collaborations, inviting Australian researchers to partner with Pawsey experts to boost the impact of their computational work. Selected teams will receive up to 0.20 full‑time‑equivalent of dedicated Pawsey...
NCSA Highlights Delta, DeltaAI Role in AI Framework for Astrophysics Workflows
Researchers at the National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA) used the Delta and DeltaAI systems to test RADAR, an AI-driven framework that fuses gravitational‑wave and radio‑astronomy data for multi‑messenger astrophysics. The framework demonstrated that analysis can occur where data reside,...
NAIRR at 2 Years: Advancing American Artificial Intelligence Innovation and Leadership
Two years after its launch, the National Artificial Intelligence Research Resource (NAIRR) has become a nationwide AI infrastructure supporting researchers, educators, students, startups and small businesses. Backed by the NSF, 13 federal agencies and 28 private partners, NAIRR has provided...
Supermicro Responds to US Indictment of 3 Individuals Tied to Export Control Allegations
Supermicro announced that it is not named in a U.S. indictment involving three individuals accused of conspiring to violate export‑control laws. The charged parties include senior vice president and board member Yih‑Shyan Liaw, a Taiwan sales manager, and a contractor....
SCSP Announces Launch of National Security Commission on Robotics for Advanced Manufacturing
The Special Competitive Studies Project announced the National Security Commission on Robotics for Advanced Manufacturing, co‑chaired by SCSP President Ylli Bajraktari, Sen. Ted Budd and Sen. Elissa Slotkin. The commission will craft a unified strategy to scale next‑generation robotics and...
Nscale Targets 1.35GW AI Deployment with Microsoft at Monarch AI Campus
Nscale has signed a letter of intent with Microsoft to install 1.35 GW of AI compute at the Monarch AI campus in West Virginia, using NVIDIA’s next‑generation Vera Rubin NVL72 GPUs. The campus, acquired through AIPCorp, already hosts a state‑certified AI...
Canada’s NRC Allocates C$161M to Quantum Tech Within Broader C$900M Defense Plan
Canada’s National Research Council (NRC) is earmarking C$161 million over five years for quantum‑technology research as part of a broader C$900 million Defence Industrial Strategy. The funding targets quantum sensing, internetworking, and quantum‑safe communications, while C$28 million is set aside for biomedical counter‑measures...
Berkeley Lab Takes Major Step Toward Doudna with Delivery of Early Access System, Cech
Berkeley Lab’s NERSC has taken delivery of the Cech early‑access system, a scaled‑down prototype of the upcoming Doudna supercomputer. Built by Dell with NVIDIA Grace CPUs and Blackwell GPUs, the rack delivers 5.76 PFLOPS FP64 and 1.44 EFLOPS NVFP4 performance. The installation...
Xanadu Introduces Quantum Algorithm for Battery Materials Simulation and Analysis
Xanadu Quantum Technologies, together with the University of Toronto and the National Research Council of Canada, unveiled a fault‑tolerant quantum algorithm that simulates resonant inelastic X‑ray scattering (RIXS) for lithium‑rich cathode materials. The pre‑print demonstrates that the method can model...
SEEQC Reports 1st Quantum Computer with Integrated Qubit Control on a Chip at Millikelvin Temperatures
SEEQC announced the first full‑stack quantum computer that integrates superconducting digital control circuitry directly on a chip operating at 10 millikelvin. The five‑qubit processor, paired with a separate SFQ control chip, achieved single‑qubit gate fidelities above 99.5% and demonstrated nanowatt‑scale power...
Penguin Solutions Introduces Industry’s First Production-Ready CXL-Based KV Cache Server
Penguin Solutions unveiled the MemoryAI KV cache server, the industry’s first production‑ready key‑value cache built on Compute Express Link (CXL) memory. The appliance combines 3 TB of DDR5 with up to eight 1 TB CXL add‑in cards, delivering up to 11 TB of...
Pasqal Integrates NVIDIA CUDA-Q with QRMI for Slurm-Native Hybrid HPC-Quantum Workflows
Pasqal announced the integration of NVIDIA’s open‑source CUDA‑Q platform with its Quantum Resource Management Interface (QRMI), allowing quantum workloads to be scheduled through standard Slurm job queues. The coupling makes Pasqal’s neutral‑atom QPUs appear as native accelerators alongside CPUs and...
NVIDIA Launches Vera CPU, Purpose-Built for Agentic AI
NVIDIA unveiled the Vera CPU, the first processor engineered specifically for agentic AI and reinforcement‑learning workloads. The chip claims 50% higher speed and twice the energy efficiency of conventional rack‑scale CPUs, leveraging 88 custom Olympus cores and LPDDR5X memory. A...
HPE Unveils Next-Gen AI Factory and Supercomputing Advancements with NVIDIA
HPE announced a suite of next‑generation AI factory and supercomputing solutions co‑engineered with NVIDIA, featuring the first NVIDIA Vera CPU compute blades, Quantum‑X800 InfiniBand switches, and the Vera Rubin NVL72 rack‑scale system for trillion‑parameter models. The portfolio also adds the...
TACC: Designing Protein Building Blocks for Advanced Materials
University of Delaware researchers, using TACC’s Stampede3 supercomputer, have computationally designed peptide fragments called bundlemers that self‑assemble into ordered structures under extreme pH conditions. Molecular simulations on Stampede3 revealed how precise surface charge patterns stabilize the barrel‑shaped four‑peptide units, enabling...
Kvantify Advances Hybrid Quantum-Classical Software for Drug Discovery
Kvantify closed a €7 million second‑stage funding round to accelerate its hybrid quantum‑classical software stack for drug discovery, building on a $10.8 million seed round and earlier EU Innovation Council support. The company’s Qrunch platform integrates conventional chemistry methods with proprietary FAST‑VQE...
CIQ Announces General Availability of RLC Pro AI, Enterprise Linux Built to Deliver More From Every GPU
CIQ has launched the general availability of Rocky Linux from CIQ Pro AI (RLC Pro AI), an enterprise Linux distribution optimized for AI inference and GPU workloads. The OS includes pre‑configured PyTorch, NVIDIA CUDA, and DOCA‑OFED stacks, and runs on...
Argonne Receives DOE Funding to Advance AI for Science
The U.S. Department of Energy awarded Argonne National Laboratory funding for more than a dozen AI‑driven research projects under the Genesis Mission. Argonne will lead the Transformational AI Models Consortium (ModCon), building self‑improving AI models that leverage DOE’s supercomputers, experimental...
Atos Group Launches Sovereign Agentic Studios to Bring AI Safely Into Production Across Organizations
Atos Group unveiled its Sovereign Agentic Studios, an operating model that moves enterprise AI agents from pilot projects to secure, production‑grade deployments under full sovereign control. The service is anchored in four flagship studios across the UK, US, France and...
Crusoe Unveils Crusoe Edge Zones to Deliver High-Performance AI Infrastructure
Crusoe announced the launch of Crusoe Edge Zones, modular data‑center units powered by its Crusoe Spark platform, to bring high‑performance AI compute to virtually any location. Built in the new Spark Factory, these zones can be stood up in as...
Lightmatter Joins XPO MSA as Founding Member to Accelerate High-Density Optical Interconnects
Lightmatter announced its participation as a founding member of the XPO (eXtra‑dense Pluggable Optics) Multi‑Source Agreement, a new optical transceiver standard driven by Arista Networks. The XPO specification promises up to four times the rack density of existing pluggable modules...
DARPA Expands Quantum Benchmarking Initiative with New Stage A Call for Participants
DARPA’s Quantum Benchmarking Initiative (QBI) has launched a new Stage A Quantum Benchmarking Initiative Topic (QBIT), inviting organizations not yet funded to submit system concepts for utility‑scale quantum computing. The solicitation targets distinct, untested architectures and offers a six‑month evaluation period,...
Xanadu and AMD Accelerate Quantum Computing for Aerospace and Engineering
Xanadu Quantum Technologies and AMD announced a hybrid quantum‑classical demonstration that runs a 256×256 computational fluid dynamics (CFD) model on AMD DevCloud using Xanadu’s PennyLane software. The workflow employed 20 qubits and roughly 35 million quantum gates, while a single AMD...
IBM and Lam Research Announce Collaboration to Advance Sub-1nm Logic Scaling
IBM and Lam Research have signed a five‑year partnership to push logic scaling below the 1 nm node. The collaboration will co‑develop novel materials, advanced etch and deposition processes, and High‑NA EUV lithography techniques to enable sub‑1 nm transistors. Leveraging IBM’s Albany...
IonQ and ARLIS Partner to Establish Zero Trust Security Framework for Mission-Critical Quantum Architectures
IonQ announced a partnership with the Air Force‑sponsored ARLIS laboratory to launch SEQCURE, a program that will design a Zero Trust Architecture (ZTA) for mission‑critical quantum systems. The effort will map current commercial quantum security practices to NIST SP800‑207 standards,...
Gartner Identifies 3 Pillars for Deriving Value From AI
Gartner’s latest survey of 353 data and analytics leaders shows AI adoption has surged to 80% of organizations, yet only one‑fifth worry about cost uncertainty and just 44% have instituted financial guardrails. The firm outlines three pillars to unlock AI...
NSF-Funded Tool Helps Chips Run Faster, Cooler and Longer
The National Science Foundation has funded TASChips, an open‑source simulation platform that predicts heat buildup inside modern microprocessors in real time. By merging physics‑based models with reduced‑order learning algorithms, the tool delivers near‑direct numerical accuracy at speeds fast enough for...
Zurich Instruments Launches ZQCS Platform for Large-Scale Quantum Computer Control
Zurich Instruments unveiled the ZQCS Quantum Control System, a next‑generation platform built on a modular AdvancedTCA architecture that delivers more than a thousand channels per 19‑inch rack. The system combines a first‑Nyquist‑zone direct‑RF front end, deterministic real‑time networking, and programmable...
Coherent Introduces Thermadite Liquid Cold Plates for High-Power Compute Applications
Coherent Corp has launched Thermadite 800 liquid cold plates, a new cooling solution for high‑power AI accelerators. The material delivers 800 W/(m·K) thermal conductivity—about twice that of copper—while being 60% lighter. In benchmark tests, the plates lower chip temperatures by more than...
Qnity Announces $61.5M Investment in New Advanced Semiconductor Research & Manufacturing Facility
Qnity Electronics announced a $61.5 million investment to acquire a new advanced semiconductor research and manufacturing facility in Taiwan’s Hsinchu Science Park. The site will house state‑of‑the‑art clean rooms, research labs, warehousing and office space to boost advanced‑node and packaging capacity....
WVU Launches New Flagship Cluster for High Performance Computing
West Virginia University has launched Harpers Ferry, its newest flagship high‑performance computing cluster, built on a multi‑petaflop architecture. The initiative was funded in part by NASA Congressionally Directed Spending, with advocacy from Senators Shelley Moore Capito and Joe Manchin. Harpers...
NLM Photonics Initiates Sampling of 1.6T and 3.2T Silicon Organic Hybrid PICs
NLM Photonics announced that its 1.6‑terabit (1.6T) and 3.2‑terabit (3.2T) silicon‑organic hybrid (SOH) photonic integrated circuits are now in sampling for select customers, with live demos at OFC 2026. The 1.6T DR8 PIC, built on the company’s patented Selerion‑HTX organic...
CoreWeave Announces Agreement to Power Perplexity’s AI Inference Workloads
CoreWeave and Perplexity have signed a multi‑year strategic partnership to run Perplexity’s inference workloads on CoreWeave Cloud, using dedicated NVIDIA GB200 NVL72 clusters. The deal includes deployment of Perplexity Enterprise Max, which adds advanced search, research, and data‑visualization capabilities for...
DOE Advances Domestic Capabilities for Producing Quantum Materials
The Department of Energy announced that Pacific Northwest National Laboratory has built systems to turn commercially sourced isotopically enriched silicon and germanium into high‑purity silane (SiH₄) and germane (GeH₄) gases. These precursor gases are essential for quantum information science and...
Nebius Secures Approval for Its First Gigawatt-Scale AI Factory
Nebius received Independence City Council approval for its Chapter 100 industrial incentive plan, clearing the way to build a 1.2‑gigawatt AI factory on a 400‑acre campus in Independence, Missouri. The development will generate roughly 1,200 skilled construction jobs and about...
Quantum Elements Reports Record Logical Qubit Fidelity in Nature Communications Study
Quantum Elements, together with USC, IBM and RWTH Aachen, published a Nature Communications paper showing the highest‑fidelity entangled logical qubits on a 127‑qubit superconducting processor. By merging quantum error detection with a novel logical dynamical decoupling (LDD) technique, the team...
NTT DATA Continues Data Center Momentum with Major Commitments From Hyperscale and Enterprise Clients
NTT DATA’s Global Data Centers business secured four capacity commitments totaling nearly 115 MW across campuses in Gainesville, Virginia; Chicago, Illinois; and Sacramento, California. The deals include more than 90 MW for a major hyperscale provider and roughly 20 MW from three enterprise...
COMPUTEX 2026 Brings the Global AI Ecosystem to Taipei
Computex 2026 will run June 2‑5 in Taipei across four venues, featuring 1,500 exhibitors and 6,000 booths, positioning the event as a global AI benchmark. The show’s “AI Together” theme spotlights AI & computing, robotics & mobility, and next‑gen technologies,...
Ayar Labs Closes $500M Series E, Accelerates Volume Production of Co-Packaged Optics
Ayar Labs announced a $500 million Series E round led by Neuberger Berman, bringing total funding to $870 million and valuing the company at $3.75 billion. The capital will be used to scale high‑volume production and testing of its co‑packaged optics (CPO) solution, expand...
Fujitsu to Deploy Underwater Drones and AI for Ocean Digital Twin at Port of Barcelona
Fujitsu Spain and the BCN Port Innovation Foundation have launched a proof‑of‑concept to build an ocean digital twin for the Port of Barcelona. The project combines autonomous underwater drones with AI‑driven analytics to capture high‑resolution seabed imagery, quantify biodiversity, and...
Fermilab and MIT Lincoln Laboratory Demonstrate Cryoelectronic Control of Ion-Trap Qubits
Researchers at Fermilab and MIT Lincoln Laboratory successfully trapped and manipulated ions using in‑vacuum cryoelectronic ASICs, demonstrating low‑power control with reduced thermal noise. The proof‑of‑principle experiment moved and held individual ions, proving that cryogenic electronics can replace some room‑temperature wiring....
Red Hat and Telenor AI Factory Bring Scale, Sovereignty and Control to Production AI
Red Hat announced that Telenor has selected its cloud‑native and AI platforms to run the Telenor AI Factory, a sovereign AI service built on NVIDIA hardware. The factory uses Red Hat OpenShift AI, OpenShift Platform Plus, and Ansible Automation to...
Supermicro Expands Support for AI-RAN and Sovereign AI Solutions
Supermicro announced expanded AI‑RAN and sovereign AI infrastructure at MWC 2026, unveiling new 1U and 2U server models built on NVIDIA Grace CPUs and Blackwell GPUs. The ARS‑111L‑FR, ARS‑221GL‑NR, and ARS‑111GL‑NHR systems target distributed radio access networks and edge AI...
