Platform engineering teams are failing by prioritizing flashy front-end interfaces over robust back-end systems, while ignoring developer feedback and overengineering solutions copied from larger companies without considering actual user needs or return on investment.
AI infrastructure company Groq raises $750 million at a $6.9 billion valuation, led by Disruptive with BlackRock participation, as the firm powers over two million developers and Fortune 500 companies with fast compute solutions across multiple continents.
AWS rolls out EC2 Instance Attestation across all regions, enabling organizations to cryptographically verify their virtual machines run only approved software configurations through Nitro TPM technology at no extra cost.
Apple commits to investing over $500 billion in the U.S. over four years, opening a massive Houston server facility by 2026, doubling its manufacturing fund to $10 billion, and hiring 20,000 new employees for AI and research roles.
Salesforce stock jumps 5% as the cloud giant projects revenue will exceed $60 billion by 2030, betting its new Agentforce AI automation platform will accelerate growth above 10% annually and outpace analyst expectations of $58.37 billion.
AI cloud company Nscale announces plans for IPO by 2026 while expanding its Microsoft partnership to $23 billion with a new $14 billion deal involving 200,000 Nvidia GB300 graphics processing units.
Meta partners with Arm in a multi-year deal to power AI systems serving over 3 billion Facebook and Instagram users through more efficient cloud infrastructure that delivers higher performance and lower power consumption than traditional systems.
Nvidia, Microsoft, BlackRock and Elon Musk's xAI announce a record-breaking $40 billion acquisition of Aligned Data Centers, marking the largest global data center deal ever as tech giants race to secure massive AI infrastructure across 50 campuses in the Americas.
London-based AI infrastructure startup Nscale raises $433 million in Pre-Series C funding just days after securing a record $1.1 billion Series B, with Blue Owl, Nvidia, Dell and Nokia leading the latest round as the company partners with OpenAI and Microsoft on massive data center projects.
Hyperspell launches an AI memory platform that gives workplace agents long-term context across apps like Slack, Gmail, and Notion, solving the critical problem of AI systems forgetting everything between sessions and lacking company knowledge awareness.