RENO, Nev., Nov. 06, 2025 – CIQ today announced expanded capabilities, adding NVIDIA DOCA OFED support to Rocky Linux from CIQ (RLC) alongside the previously announced NVIDIA CUDA Toolkit integration. CIQ said this makes RLC the first Linux distribution licensed to deliver the NVIDIA AI and networking software stack, including CUDA Toolkit and DOCA OFED, ready to […]
Google Cloud Announces GA of Ironwood TPUs
Google today announced GA on the Google Cloud Platform of three products built on custom silicon built for inference and agentic workloads: – Ironwood, Google’s seventh generation Tensor Processing Unit, will be generally available in the coming weeks. The company said it is built for large-scale model training and complex reinforcement learning, as well as […]
OpenAI and Broadcom to Deploy 10 GW of OpenAI-Designed AI Accelerators
When it comes to AI compute, the big cloud platform providers are chip-agnostic, adopting processors from the big chip companies (mostly NVIDIA) along with their own custom-designed GPUs, referred to as ASICS. OpenAI is ….
Air Force Issues Call for Proposals for AI Data Centers
Oct. 17, 2025 — The U.S. Department of the Air Force announced it is accepting proposals for the development of artificial intelligence data centers . The Air Force said projects must include greater than 100 megawatts of new load and at least $500 million in capital expenditures, adding that it is seeking monetary consideration for […]
AI Science Factory Company Lila Announces Close of $350M Series A, with NVIDIA Backing
Oct. 17, 2025 — Lila Sciences has announced the close of its $350M Series A, bringing Lila’s total capital raised to $550M. The company said it is using this financing to accelerate the buildout of its AI science factories and bring its “scientific superintelligence platform” to the scientifi c community. Lila Sciences emerged from two […]
Tessell Launches Exadata Integration for AI Multi-Cloud Oracle Workloads
SAN FRANCISCO (October 14, 2025) — Tessell, a multi-cloud database-as-a-service (DBaaS), today announced the launch of its Exadata Integration designed to enable enterprises to maximize the value of Oracle Database and Exadata across Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) and approved multi-cloud platforms, including Oracle Database@Azure and Oracle Database@Google Cloud, and Oracle Database@AWS. As an Oracle Partner, […]
@HPCpodcast: Silicon Photonics – An Update from Prof. Keren Bergman on a Potentially Transformational Technology for Data Center Chips
In this episode of the @HPCpodcast, sponsored by CoolIT, we catch up with optical I/O expert and repeat guest Professor Keren Bergman to discuss ….
News Bytes 20251013: AMD’s Big OpenAI Deal, Intel’s New 2nm Server CPU from Fab 52
A good mid-October day to you! As news weeks go in the HPC-AI world last week was quite something, led by what may come to be regarded as one of the biggest news ….
Cloudflare Integrates Services with Oracle Cloud
Cloudflare, Inc. (NYSE: NET) today announced that its connectivity cloud platform will be available natively on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI). This will enable joint customers to leverage Cloudflare’s ….
Deloitte and KAUST to Explore AI in Saudi Arabia
Jeddah, Saudi Arabia – Deloitte Middle East and King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST) have signed a memorandum of understanding to launch a collaboration that will bring together Deloitte Middle East’s AI Institute and KAUST’s research ecosystem with the intent to advance the role of artificial intelligence in the Kingdom and across the […]













