Market & Trends

The London-and-San-Francisco startup, formerly Orbital Materials, has closed $50M led by Plural for PFAS-free cooling fluid and modular high-density compute infrastructure. Orbital Industries, the London-and-San-Francisco AI-materials startup formerly known as Orbital Materials, has raised $50m i...

Eskom Green has officially launched construction of a 75MW solar photovoltaic power plant at the Lethabo Power Station in the Free State Province of South Africa, marking the first time the state utility has broken ground on a utility-scale renewable energy project within its own coal-fired stati...

CashAfrica is betting on contactless payments as Nigeria’s next major shift, building infrastructure and partnerships to power tap-to-pay adoption.

Hyperconverged cloud infrastructure company Nutanix Inc. delivered a mostly upbeat earnings report today, easily beating estimates on profit and revenue, and investors liked the news as the company’s stock gained more than 5% after-hours.

Snowflake Inc.’s shares jumped in late trading today after it announced a $6 billion spending commitment on Amazon Web Services Inc.’s cloud infrastructure, including a deal to use the company’s custom artificial intelligence chips. The cloud data platform giant also reported stellar first-quarte...

As enterprises confront rising memory and storage costs alongside mounting pressure to run AI workloads on-premises, the fundamental architecture of the private cloud data center is changing beneath their feet — and Azure Local is emerging as a key part of that new foundation. Digital sovereignty...

Through Paga Engine, its payments infrastructure business, the Nigerian fintech is packaging nearly two decades of internal payments technology into services other companies can plug into instead of building their own systems.

Tensormesh Inc. has hit upon a way to make artificial intelligence inference more efficient by eliminating the need for redundant computations, and its technology is so convincing that several of AI infrastructure giants are backing it with $20 million in funding.

Social engineering defense startup Doppel Inc. today launched Doppel Email Security, an agentic artificial intelligence layer that traces phishing messages back to attacker infrastructure and orchestrates takedowns of the broader campaign rather than quarantining individual emails.

The Tech Sovereignty Package arrives on Wednesday, but the EU is still arguing internally over what ‘digital sovereignty’ should actually require. The European Commission is preparing to publish its Tech Sovereignty Package on Wednesday afternoon, the most concentrated single attempt yet to reduc...

Artificial intelligence-native infrastructure provider for identity and fraud prevention Didit today announced it has raised $6 million in seed funding. New and continuing investors joining the round included Y Combinator LLC, Pioneer Fund, Orange Collective, Founders Future, Phosphor Capital, Sa...

Agents are turning up the heat for enterprises, turning air-cooled AI infrastructure into a boardroom priority. While GPUs have largely dominated the AI conversation, CPUs are increasingly coming into focus.