Optical interconnect startup CScale emerges from stealth following investment from Nvidia, Intel
Californian startup raised $145m in Series C funding round
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Marvell confirms multi-billion dollar deal to acquire Celestial AI
Deal would give Marvell access to Celestial’s pipeline of photonic interconnect technology
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Cisco announces layoffs days after CEO said it won’t cut jobs in favor of AI
Law firm ‘investigating’ layoffs over alleged notice discrepancy, while Cisco brings in a new channel partner chief
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Intel layoffs underway in California, WARN filings reveal
Impacted job roles include design engineers, cloud software workers, and project managers
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Cisco unveils prototype quantum network entanglement chip
Company has also opened quantum lab in Santa Monica, California
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SambaNova lays off 77 employees as company pivots focus from training to inference
Cuts occurred in April
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Silicon Valley Power stockpiles discontinued GE Vernova JMUX, expects substation costs to go up with tariffs
As it ramps up substation buildout to meet data center demand
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LAPD recovers stolen Bitcoin miners worth $2.7m from LAX
Stolen servers were headed for Hong Kong
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nEye Systems raises $58m for optical switch technology
Startup has raised $72.5m since founding in 2020
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SoftBank deploys AI RAN solution for Edge applications at Nvidia's Santa Clara HQ
A robot that utilizes LLMs has been trialed
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Comcast pays $8m for Californian ISP CityNet
Expands firm's cable services to San Bruno, California
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Cerebras plans six new AI data centers in North America and Europe
First facility due to come online in Q2 2025
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Nvidia quietly acquires AIOps firm Augtera Networks
GPU giant rolls networking monitoring firm into Spectrum-X portfolio
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Lumen-occupied telecoms facility up for sale outside Oakland, California
CenturyLink site available to a new landlord for $6.5 million
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EnCharge AI closes oversubscribed $100m Series B funding round for development of analog in-memory chips
Hopes to bring its AI accelerators to market in 2025
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3M joins semiconductor US-JOINT Consortium for advanced packaging R&D
Group plans to open a new R&D facility later this year
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Lambda installs GB200 NVL72 rack at hydrogen-powered data center
EdgeCloudLink data center is among the first to get Nvidia Grace Blackwell deployment
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AI chip startup Blaize goes public via SPAC merger
Deal saw company valued at $1.2bn
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SpaceX provides Starlink terminals to areas impacted by Los Angeles fires
As mobile carriers also lend support to the affected areas
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Microsoft launches local Azure zones, plans Edge region in Perth, Australia
Azure Extended Zone coming to Perth next year, currently only live in LA
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AT&T completes removal of lead cabling from Lake Tahoe - report
The carrier has reportedly removed close to eight miles worth of cabling
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Geyser Data launches Tape-as-a-Service offering
Company offers cloud-like approach to tape storage
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Oxide Cloud Computer to be installed at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
Aims to bring together cloud and HPC at the laboratory
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PG&E plans 200MW data center campus in San Jose, deploys Nvidia hardware to nuclear power plant
Cali utility partners with Westbank for downtown project
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Sunnyvale, California, chosen as location for second CHIPS Act-funded semiconductor R&D facility
Will support research into chip design and industry-wide collaboration