AI & ML

Overland AI demonstrated combat-ready autonomous ground vehicles at US Africa Command's largest annual exercise in Morocco's Sahara Desert.

Firefly Aerospace subsidiary SciTec has been awarded a $5.5m contract option to deliver data fusion capabilities for the US Air Force's CBC2 battle

ST has raised its 2026 data centre revenue ambition to roughly $1bn, citing AI infrastructure demand and capacity ramp-up progress.

Nasdaq-listed Trident Digital is using its Ghana tax-platform deployment as a springboard for a continent-wide AI infrastructure push.

Microchip Technology's XpressConnect retimers target signal-integrity and latency bottlenecks in large-scale GPU clusters running at 64 GT/s.

The Boston-based observability platform closed a $200m Series F co-led by Advent, CPPIB and Greenfield, bringing total funding to $550m.

Centrical secured $39m in Series D funding led by Leeds Illuminate and Kingfisher Investment to expand its AI-driven frontline performance platform globally.

The decade-long agreement covers co-development of edge AI SoCs across Hanwha's security, robotics, automation and life sciences divisions.

Japan-based automotive software specialist Micware is listing on Nasdaq under "MWC", raising $22.8m to expand its in-vehicle infotainment and SDV platforms.

Nokia has launched a co-innovation lab in California to develop and validate AI-native data centre networking with partners including AMD, Keysight and Nscale.

Soitec's full-year revenue fell 34% to €592m, but Photonics-SOI crossed $100m for the first time as AI data-centre demand accelerated.

ThoughtSpot has expanded its Spotter agent platform to run natively within Snowflake's security boundary, adding Cortex AI support and bi-directional semantic management.

Google will fund a Voltus-operated VPP aggregating up to 100 MW of distributed energy resources annually, paying local participants to ease grid stress.

The partnership will develop high-density colocation facilities across six US sites, with first locations under letter of intent in Colorado and Kentucky.

Quantum Metric's 2026 benchmark finds AI-referred customers convert well but are twice as likely to abandon after a single friction point.

AMD posted $10.3bn in Q1 2026 revenue, up 38% year-on-year, with its Data Centre segment now the dominant growth engine.

Applied Materials has agreed to buy ASMPT's NEXX unit, adding panel-level electrochemical deposition equipment to its advanced packaging portfolio.

ASUS has launched three new desktop PCs at Best Buy, including the first all-in-one built on Qualcomm's Snapdragon X platform, priced from

CECO Environmental posted a 97% rise in Q1 orders and raised full-year 2026 guidance as data-centre and AI power demand drives record bookings.

Cloudera's new integration lets enterprises run AI workflows against ServiceNow data in-place, removing data movement and cutting governance risk.