Critical Cisco bug allows persistent network access since 2023
Cisco is warning of a critical vulnerability in its Catalyst SD-WAN products that has allowed hackers to maintain persistent, hidden network access for at least three years.
Monday, October 12, 2026
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Cisco is warning of a critical vulnerability in its Catalyst SD-WAN products that has allowed hackers to maintain persistent, hidden network access for at least three years.
New York is considering a three-year moratorium on data center construction as public and legislative opposition to the industry's massive infrastructure spending plans grows nationwide.
Google is building a Minnesota data center backed by 1.9 gigawatts of clean power and a massive 300-megawatt iron-air battery from Form Energy to ensure long-duration storage.
Meta plans to purchase up to $100 billion in AMD chips, a move designed to diversify its AI infrastructure and accelerate the development of "personal superintelligence."
DG Matrix, Heron Power, and Amperesand raised significant funding to replace aging, passive electrical transformers with modern, software-updatable solid-state alternatives.
G42 and Cerebras are partnering to deploy 8 exaflops of computing power in India, joining a wave of massive infrastructure investments boosting the country's sovereign AI capabilities.
Redwood Materials raised $425 million to scale its energy storage business, aiming to address the massive power demand and grid connection delays facing AI data center developers.
SoftBank subsidiary SB Energy is expected to build a $33 billion, 9.2 gigawatt natural gas power plant in the US, potentially the country's largest if completed.
Reliance unveiled an about $110 billion plan to build AI computing infrastructure in India over seven years, aiming to secure the country's technological self-reliance.
OpenAI has partnered with India’s Tata Group to secure 100 megawatts of AI-ready data center capacity, with plans to eventually scale to 1 gigawatt.
Heron Power raised $140 million and plans to build a factory capable of producing 40 gigawatts of solid-state transformers annually to meet data center demand.
DG Matrix raised $60 million in a Series A round to scale its solid-state Interport device, which aims to replace legacy power conversion equipment in data centers.
Mistral AI has made its first acquisition by agreeing to buy serverless startup Koyeb, aiming to integrate the platform into its Mistral Compute offering to scale AI inference.
Mesh Optical Technologies, founded by SpaceX veterans, raised $50 million to mass-produce optical transceivers and build a non-Chinese supply chain for AI data centers.
Anthropic’s evolving prompt caching tiers highlight a broader industry shift where mastering memory orchestration is becoming critical for AI cost efficiency and business viability.
India is launching an aggressive push to attract over $200 billion in AI infrastructure investment by 2028 to position itself as a global hub for AI computing.
Adani Group will invest $100 billion over the next decade to build AI data centers in India, expecting to catalyze a broader $250 billion infrastructure ecosystem.
Neysa has secured Blackstone backing in a deal worth up to $1.2 billion to scale domestic AI compute capacity in India.
Helion reached 150 million degrees Celsius in its Polaris prototype, a key step toward its 2028 commercial fusion electricity contract with Microsoft.
SpaceX has requested regulatory permission to build solar-powered orbital data centers, though experts warn that high launch and production costs currently make the economics challenging.