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Silicon Valley startup CScale, backed by Nvidia and Intel, announced a $145 million financing round led by Atreides Management, Valor Equity Partners and Premji Invest, bringing total capital to $188 million. The company says its technology can embed tiny lasers directly onto AI chips and preserve data flow when a laser fails, turning a potential outage into a reduced‑performance condition. Current AI servers rely on short‑reach copper interconnects that limit bandwidth and force dense processor layouts with intensive cooling. [...]

Advantech unveiled the ASR-D501, a compact AI companion computer for autonomous drones, on Oct. 1, 2026. The device is built around Qualcomm’s QCS6490 system‑on‑chip, delivering up to 12 TOPS of AI performance while consuming less than 10 watts. It integrates five 4‑lane MIPI‑CSI camera links, Ethernet, USB‑C, CAN FD, UART, I²C and GPIO ports, and supports Wi‑Fi 6E, Bluetooth and 4G/5G via an M.2 slot with Nano‑SIM. Running Ubuntu 24.04 LTS and Advantech’s Robotic Suite for Drone, the platform connects ROS 2 applications to [...]

HPE announced a $1.2 billion order from Vultr, the world’s largest privately held cloud infrastructure provider, for its first AMD Helios AI rack‑scale systems. The deal equips Vultr’s U.S. data centers with racks that integrate 72 AMD Instinct MI455X GPUs, AMD EPYC “Venice” CPUs, Pensando Vulcano AI networking cards and ROCm software, all built on HPE’s networking layer, liquid‑cooling technology and deployment services. The configuration is designed for training trillion‑parameter models and high‑volume inference. The order deepens HPE’s [...]

PlayStation 5 and PS4 owners can download a free demo of SNK’s 2025 title Fatal Fury: City of the Wolves from the PlayStation Store. The demo includes six fighters—Rock, Terry, Hotaru, Preecha, Vox, and Mai—and offers Arcade, Classic Versus, Training, Tutorial, Trials, and Color Edit modes, though Arcade is limited to two matches and online play is unavailable. The full game, priced at $19.99, expands the roster to 17 fighters, adds RPG elements, and features guest characters like [...]

Apple Music expanded its global footprint on Wednesday, adding Albania, Brunei, Burkina Faso, and Pakistan to its streaming roster. The move brings the service to 104 countries, 11 years after its 2015 launch in over 100 markets. The expansion follows recent updates, including countdown clocks for album releases and the opening of the Apple Music Hall in London. Apple Pay also debuted in India that day, marking a significant Services rollout. The new territories reflect Apple's ongoing [...]

Apple Pay has launched in India on a limited basis, initially supporting only Visa and MasterCard credit cards issued by Axis Bank. The service does not yet work with cards from other major banks such as State Bank of India or HDFC Bank, nor with the local RuPay network. Apple plans to charge a 0.2 percent transaction fee, with terms still under negotiation with other banks. The payment method will be accepted at millions of merchants, including [...]

Yellow.ai unveiled Nexus EDGE, an agentic desktop application that integrates its Nexus Universal Agentic Interface directly into employees’ computers. The tool automatically detects and resolves IT, HR, and operations problems on the device, using the employee’s existing role-based permissions. Unlike traditional search assistants that merely provide answers, Nexus EDGE executes remediation steps in real time, drawing on the company’s knowledge base, SOPs, and enterprise systems. The launch introduces a new category, Employee Experience Automation (EX Automation), extending [...]

Cloudflare announced plans to launch a public Certificate Authority (CA) that will issue both traditional TLS certificates and post‑quantum Merkle Tree Certificates (MTCs). The company will acquire GlobalSign’s root key material and apply for inclusion in major browser root stores, ensuring immediate backward compatibility. MTCs batch certificate requests into a Merkle tree, signing only the tree head to reduce signature size and maintain auditability. Cloudflare will pilot the system on its edge network, with full production issuance [...]