Leadership
Nscale Appoints Amy Banse to Board as AI Cloud Company Expands
Nscale has appointed veteran corporate executive and board director Amy Banse to its Board of Directors, where she will also chair the Compensation Committee.
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Startups
AI Startup Zeroset Emerges From Stealth With $5.2 Million to Improve Enterprise AI Agents
Zeroset has emerged from stealth with $5.2 million in pre-seed funding to build infrastructure that helps AI agents understand enterprise workflows, decisions and changing business context.
Space
Axiom Space and Kepler Advance Distributed Orbital Computing Infrastructure
Axiom Space has reached new milestones in its orbital computing programme, with two ARC nodes now operating in orbit and a successful ground test of post-quantum cryptography migration.
Semiconductor
Marvell Raises 2028 Revenue Forecast to $20 Billion as AI Chip Demand Surges
Marvell Technology has raised its fiscal 2028 revenue forecast to about $20 billion and set a $70 billion to $90 billion target for fiscal 2031, driven by demand for custom AI chips and data-center connectivity.
Robotics
Agility Robotics Showcases Digit 5 as Humanoid Robot Commercialisation Accelerates
Agility Robotics used its October 6 Analyst & Investor Day to outline how Digit 5 could move humanoid robots from commercial pilots toward wider industrial deployment.
Innovation
Xanadu and GlobalFoundries Team Up to Mass-Produce Quantum Computing Hardware
Xanadu and GlobalFoundries have entered a multi-year partnership to industrialise key photonic components needed for utility-scale quantum computing.
Funding & Investment
Finnish AI Cloud Company Verda Raises $189 Million to Scale Infrastructure
Finnish AI cloud company Verda has raised $189 million in Series B funding to expand compute capacity and develop its full-stack AI cloud for enterprise and frontier AI workloads.
Cybersecurity
ASOS Investigates Cyberattack After Hackers Send Messages Through Its App
ASOS is investigating a cyber incident after customers received an unauthorised app notification claiming hackers had compromised the retailer’s Snowflake environment and threatening to leak data.
Cloud & Data
Google Signs Nuclear Power Deal to Support Growing AI Data Center Demand
Google and Constellation Energy have signed a long-term agreement covering 890 MW of new nuclear capacity for the PJM grid, with an additional 2,700 MW of nuclear power included in a 15-year deal to support rising AI data center demand.
AI
Mistral Launches Large 4 AI Model, Challenging Chinese and US Rivals
French AI company Mistral has launched Mistral Large 4, a one-trillion-parameter multimodal model that targets coding, cybersecurity and other enterprise workloads while preparing for a public open-weight release later this month.
Startups
Aleph Alpha Launches Kolibri, a Sovereign AI Model for Government and Industry
German AI startup Aleph Alpha has launched Kolibri, an open-weight AI model built for mission-critical government, industrial and aerospace applications where data control, compliance and local deployment are priorities.
Leadership
Sam Altman Says AI Can Stay Under Human Control, but Safety Must Come First
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman says humanity can remain in control of increasingly powerful AI systems, but argues that safety must keep pace with capability as rogue-agent incidents expose new risks.
Semiconductor
Broadcom’s AI Chip Business Surges as Custom Silicon Demand Grows
Broadcom’s AI semiconductor revenue jumped 221% year over year in its latest quarter as demand for custom AI accelerators and networking hardware from major AI companies continues to accelerate.
Cybersecurity
Citrix NetScaler Zero-Day Exploited Days After Emergency Patches
Citrix has confirmed active exploitation of a new NetScaler zero-day just days after customers patched two other vulnerabilities, forcing another emergency security update.
Space
SpaceX Scrubs SDA Tranche 1 Mission Carrying 21 Military Satellites
SpaceX scrubbed its planned October 5 Falcon 9 launch for the U.S. Space Development Agency after the countdown was halted in the final minute. The mission is carrying 21 satellites for the military's growing low-Earth-orbit communications network.
Robotics
Honda to Showcase Avatar Robot and AI Safety Technology at CEATEC 2026
Honda will showcase its Avatar Robot and an AI-powered driver-assistance smartphone app at CEATEC 2026, highlighting technologies designed to extend human capabilities and improve mobility safety.
Innovation
India Demonstrates 5.56-km Free-Space Quantum Key Distribution Link
QNu Labs, BISAG-N and IIT Gandhinagar have demonstrated India’s first 5.56-km free-space QKD link, combining quantum key distribution with post-quantum cryptography for secure communications.
Funding & Investment
Fleuret AI Raises €4M to Automate Offensive Cybersecurity
French cybersecurity startup Fleuret AI has raised €4 million in pre-seed funding to develop AI agents that continuously test companies for exploitable vulnerabilities and help security teams verify fixes.
Cloud & Data
Submer Launches Corenix for Modular AI Data Centers
Submer Group has launched Corenix, a new modular data center infrastructure company designed to help neoclouds, hyperscalers and AI operators deploy high-density computing capacity faster.
AI
Anthropic Brings Claude Inference to India Through Amazon Bedrock
Anthropic has made Claude available with in-country inference in India through Amazon Bedrock, allowing organisations to process AI requests within Indian regions and address data residency requirements.
Leadership
Nvidia’s Jensen Huang Pushes AI Safety as Rogue AI Incidents Raise New Concerns
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang is defending rapid AI development while arguing that safety must be engineered into increasingly autonomous systems as reports of rogue AI agents raise fresh security concerns.
Semiconductor
TSMC Explores Texas Campus With Musk’s Terafab as Potential Anchor
TSMC is reportedly exploring a multibillion-dollar semiconductor campus in Texas, with Elon Musk’s Terafab project emerging as a potential anchor customer as AI chip demand drives capacity expansion.
AI
OpenAI Investigation Into Rogue AI Agents Costs $500,000 a Day
OpenAI is reviewing roughly 50 petabytes of data after AI agents carried out unauthorised activity involving more than 100 organisations, with the investigation costing over $500,000 a day.
AI
OpenAI Alerts 100+ Organizations Over Rogue AI Agent Activity
OpenAI has notified more than 100 organizations about “misaligned agent activity” involving its AI models as the company investigates how autonomous agents behaved outside their intended restrictions.
Leadership
NuSummit Appoints Kunal Purohit as Managing Director and CEO
NuSummit has appointed Kunal Purohit as Managing Director and CEO, succeeding Anantharaman Sreenivasan, who will remain on the board through March 2027 to support the transition.
Space
Four Indian Space Startups Send Payloads to Orbit on SpaceX Falcon 9
SpaceX’s Transporter-18 rideshare mission has carried technologies from Dhruva Space, TakeMe2Space, SatLeo Labs and EON Space Labs into orbit, covering thermal imaging, Earth observation, onboard AI and commercial space infrastructure.
Innovation
D-Wave Launches Gate-Model Quantum Simulator Beta
D-Wave has launched a beta program for a gate-model quantum simulator, giving selected organisations early access to error-aware programming tools ahead of its planned dual-rail quantum hardware.
Cybersecurity
Critical FortiMail Zero-Day Exploited in the Wild, CISA Adds Flaw to KEV Catalog
Fortinet has warned that attackers are actively exploiting a critical FortiMail vulnerability that allows unauthenticated attackers to write arbitrary files on affected systems.
Cloud & Data
Amazon to Invest $1B in U.S. Communities Hosting Data Centers
Amazon Web Services will invest more than $1 billion over five years in U.S. communities where it operates data centers, focusing on education, workforce training, energy affordability and water resources.
AI
Google Unveils Gemini 4 Argon, Its Most Advanced AI Model for Complex Workflows
Google has introduced Gemini 4 Argon, a new frontier model built for long-running software, enterprise, scientific and cybersecurity workflows, with its initial rollout restricted to trusted cyber defenders.
Semiconductor
Broadcom and TOPPAN Open Singapore’s First High-End FC-BGA Plant
Broadcom and Japan’s TOPPAN have opened Singapore’s first facility for high-end FC-BGA substrates, adding advanced packaging capacity as AI and networking chip demand rises.
Robotics
XPeng Showcases Next-Generation Humanoid Robot as Physical AI Expands
XPeng is demonstrating new capabilities of its IRON humanoid robot as the company expands its physical-AI strategy alongside autonomous driving and electric vehicles.
Innovation
NTT DOCOMO Unveils AI Model That Predicts With Limited Data
NTT DOCOMO has developed a new AI model designed to make accurate predictions when historical data is scarce, targeting the cold-start problem faced by new services and products.
Funding & Investment
SiMa.ai Raises $150M at $1.45B Valuation to Scale Physical AI
SiMa.ai has raised $150 million in Series C funding at a $1.45 billion valuation, taking its total capital raised to $500 million as it expands AI silicon and software for robots, drones and vehicles.
Cybersecurity
Pentagon Data Breach Exposes Information of More Than 3 Million People
A breach of the U.S. Defense Manpower Data Center exposed sensitive personal information linked to more than 3 million people, including military and civilian personnel.
Cloud & Data
CtrlS and Ciena Build 100 Tb/s Network Across Indian Data Centers
CtrlS Datacenters is working with Ciena to deploy five metro optical networks connecting nine Indian data centers, with up to 100 Tb/s of capacity for AI and cloud workloads.
AI
NVIDIA Launches Open Agent Safety Platform to Secure AI Agents
NVIDIA has launched an open software platform and reference hardware design designed to keep autonomous AI agents within defined boundaries from testing through deployment.
Startups
Verda Raises €163M to Scale Full-Stack AI Cloud
Finnish AI infrastructure startup Verda has raised €163 million to expand compute capacity, inference capabilities and platform services for AI teams worldwide.