AI Infrastructure news and analysis on Web Pulse: 32008 curated articles tracking the latest AI Infrastructure developments, tools, and research, updated continuously from vetted sources.
IDC ranked Dell, NetApp, Everpure, Huawei and HPE as the top five external storage systems suppliers in the first quarter of 2026, with the market reaching $9.2 billion in vendor revenue, a 22.7% year-over-year increase …
At Data + AI Summit 2026, Azure Databricks announced new capabilities for the agentic era, including Agentic Data for real-time foundations, Agentic Dev & Work for AI coworkers, Agentic Marketing for autonomous personali…
Databricks announced CustomerLake, an Agentic Customer Data Platform (CDP) natively embedded in Databricks, at the Data + AI Summit. The platform enables marketers and data teams to deploy AI agents for real-time custome…
Databricks launched an updated Startup Program offering venture-backed startups up to $200k in credits for Databricks and Neon, along with hands-on guidance and go-to-market opportunities. The program targets early-stage…
Databricks launched Genie ZeroOps, an autonomous AI agent that monitors production data pipelines and ML models, detects failures, diagnoses root causes, suggests fixes, and validates them in isolated environments. The t…
Databricks announced Lakeflow, a unified data engineering platform integrating ingestion, transformation, and orchestration with centralized governance via Unity Catalog. Key features include Genie Code for AI-powered pi…
Databricks launched Lakebase Search, a hybrid vector and full-text retrieval system built into Lakebase Postgres, now in beta on AWS and Azure. The system uses tiered storage to keep active data in RAM and cold data in o…
The US Justice Department defended Elon Musk's xAI in a pollution lawsuit, arguing that the gas turbines powering its AI data center are vital to national security. The NAACP sued xAI for operating methane gas turbines w…
1Password launched Credential Broker, a new service that brokers credentials to machine workloads and AI agents at runtime using workload identity federation, starting with GitHub Actions. The tool eliminates long-lived …
Outpost, a capability-based credential proxy for AI agents, launched to prevent credential leakage by enforcing what agents can do with YAML-defined policies instead of exposing raw API keys. The tool deploys on Cloudfla…
Blockmate Ventures is advancing an AI infrastructure opportunity in Wyoming and has launched an investor roadshow to promote the initiative.
Startup Tensordyne claims its new Napier AI chip, using logarithmic math to replace multipliers with adders, can run large language models four times faster using one-fifth the power of a comparable Nvidia GB300 system. …
Elon Musk's SpaceX has overtaken Amazon to become the world's fifth most valuable company after its share price surged more than 50% following its Nasdaq listing. The boost came as SpaceX announced it is acquiring AI cod…
Rackspace Technology shares surged 30% on June 16 after signing a definitive agreement with AMD to deploy 30 megawatts of AMD-based AI compute capacity across its global data centers through 2028. The deal formalizes a p…
Enterprises are burning millions on cloud LLM tokens due to inefficient agentic systems, prompting a shift to open-weight models on dedicated infrastructure to eliminate marginal token costs and achieve financial sustain…
OpenAI's spending is projected to reach $34 billion in 2025, according to analyst Ed Zitron, highlighting the immense costs of scaling artificial intelligence infrastructure. The figure underscores the financial challeng…
Zhongji Innolight, the world's largest optical transceiver maker, is seeking a secondary listing in Hong Kong that could raise up to $7 billion, driven by surging AI infrastructure demand. The company's 2025 net profit m…
Chinese film industry leaders at the Shanghai International Film Festival identified computing power, distribution, and directable generative AI as key hurdles for AI-driven filmmaking. MiniMax VP Yan Yijun emphasized co…
Chainguard launched the Athena coalition, a group of over two dozen companies including JPMorgan Chase and Cisco, to use AI to find and fix open-source software vulnerabilities before attackers can exploit them. The init…
AMD and Rackspace Technology signed a definitive agreement to deploy an initial 30 MW of AMD AI compute across Rackspace data centers from late 2026 through 2028, integrating AMD Instinct GPUs and EPYC CPUs. Rackspace al…