The race to power generative AI just got a Nordic boost. Crusoe, the vertically integrated AI infrastructure provider, and atNorth, the leading Nordic data center operator, today announced a major expansion of Crusoe Cloud capacity at atNorth’s ICE02 campus in Iceland.
S&P Global is opening up its treasure trove of market intelligence to more data scientists—this time through Google Cloud’s BigQuery platform. The move, announced today, is part of the financial data giant’s push to make its AI-Ready Data portfolio accessible wherever customers already work.
The Asia-Pacific region isn’t just participating in the open hardware movement—it’s increasingly steering it. That was the unmistakable takeaway from the Open Compute Project (OCP) APAC Summit in Taipei on August 5, where industry leaders mapped out a future in which APAC is the growth engine for AI-ready data center infrastructure.
Kyndryl has expanded its strategic alliance with Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) to advance enterprise adoption of private cloud AI solutions. Announced today, the collaboration combines Kyndryl’s AI consulting and deployment capabilities with HPE’s newly launched Private Cloud AI platform—developed in partnership with NVIDIA—to fast-track AI transformation for enterprise clients.
The company has officially launched the Globally Distributed Exadata Database on Exascale Infrastructure, a powerful new service aimed at simplifying the deployment of high-performance, mission-critical applications across Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) regions worldwide.
In 2024, Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) didn’t just grow—it ballooned. According to new data from Gartner, the global IaaS market jumped 22.5% year-over-year, hitting a staggering $171.8 billion. The growth confirms what most IT leaders already know: cloud isn’t just the future—it’s the infrastructure backbone of the AI era.
In a bold move signaling its ambitions in secure AI infrastructure, Highrise AI, a subsidiary of Hut 8 Corp. (NASDAQ, TSX: HUT), has appointed Mark Mendelman as its new Chief Technology Officer. Mendelman, a veteran AI architect with a 20-year career in the Israel Defense Forces (IDF), brings deep expertise in building large-scale, resilient AI systems for mission-critical environments.
Artificial Societies, a rising AI startup specializing in human behavior simulation, has unveiled AS, its flagship simulation platform designed to forecast how audiences will respond to marketing content, messaging, and social media posts—before they go live. With an 80% accuracy rate in predicting social media performance, AS is poised to upend the $100B+ global market research industry
Trend Micro is leveling up its partnership with Google Cloud, aiming squarely at the growing complexity of cloud and AI-driven threats in today’s enterprise landscape. The cybersecurity heavyweight announced a significant expansion of its strategic alliance with Google Cloud, delivering new enterprise-focused security tools tailored for AI-first, multi-cloud environments.
