Reliable Robotics, the aviation autonomy startup founded by a SpaceX alumnus, has raised 115 million dollars in a round that takes its valuation above 1 billion dollars, TechCrunch reported. The company is one of several autonomy firms crossing the unicorn line on defence and cargo applications rather than consumer products.
Eka, a physical AI company, is valued at 1.45 billion dollars following its latest funding, TechCrunch reported, as investors continue to pay frontier model prices for models aimed at robots and the physical world rather than text.
CBRE has acquired Onnec, a data centre services firm, Datacenter Dynamics reported, continuing the consolidation of the contractors and service providers that build and maintain AI facilities.
Veon is to acquire rival Perfectum in a 207 million dollar consolidation of the Uzbek telecoms market, Datacenter Dynamics reported.
Recruitment platform Bullhorn was knocked offline by a cyberattack, The Register reported, in a week when enterprise software outages and intrusions again outnumbered product launches in the security feeds.
NTT and Docomo will pilot AI controlled base stations designed to increase renewable energy use and support demand response, Datacenter Dynamics reported, putting telecoms networks into the same flexibility market that Nvidia’s DSX Flex targets for data centres.
Greenpeace activists disrupted Nvidia’s GTC Berlin keynote, Datacenter Dynamics reported, a reminder that the DSX launch week also carried the protest politics now attached to large AI facilities in Europe.
TP-Link is seeking to reassure the Trump administration with a pledge to assemble routers in the United States, Ars Technica reported, as Chinese linked networking vendors manage US national security scrutiny through local manufacturing commitments.