NEW YORK, Jan. 29, 2026 — Cockroach Labs, a cloud-agnostic distributed SQL databases with CockroachDB, today announced findings from its second annual survey, “The State of AI Infrastructure 2026: Can Systems Withstand AI Scale?” The report reveals a growing concern that AI use is starting to overwhelm the traditional IT systems meant to support it. As […]

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Argonne National Laboratory has entered into a partnership with RIKEN, Fujitsu Limited and NVIDIA to advance artificial intelligence and high performance computing to accelerate scientific discovery. The agreement, based on a memorandum of understanding signed January 27, will aligns with DOE’s Genesis Mission, a national initiative to use AI ....

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Barcelona, Spain, January 29, 2026 — Qilimanjaro Quantum Tech today announced the release of EduQit, a modular quantum computing kit designed to enable hands-on training, experimental learning, and early-stage research using an on-site superconducting quantum computing system. EduQit enables universities and research institutions to work directly with a physical quantum computing system. This provides hand-on […]

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The UK government announced it has injected £36 million to increase the power of one of the UK’s leading supercomputing centres sixfold. This includes backing a new National Computational Resource supercomputer ....

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PALO ALTO, Calif. & Boca Raton, Florida – January 27, 2026 – D-Wave Quantum Inc. (NYSE: QBTS), a dual-platform quantum computing company, today announced that Florida Atlantic University (FAU) has signed an agreement to purchase an Advantage2 annealing quantum computer at its Boca Raton campus. The agreement represents a $20 million commitment from FAU, aiming to […]

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PALO ALTO, Calif. – January 27, 2026 – D-Wave Quantum Inc. (NYSE: QBTS), a dual-platform quantum computing company, today announced a $10 million, two-year enterprise quantum computing as a service (QCaaS) agreement with a leading Fortune 100 company. Under the agreement, the companies plan to collaborate to develop and deploy several quantum-powered applications. “This agreement marks a […]

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PARIS and TEL AVIV, January 27, 2026 –  C12, a European deep-tech company building spin qubit quantum processors, and Classiq, a software platform for enterprise-grade quantum computing development, today announced a strategic integration partnership. This collaboration is intended to bridge the gap between scalable quantum hardware and scalable quantum software, accelerating enterprise and research access to quantum computing. […]

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Abbas Nikroo, deputy director for physics integration at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory's National Ignition Facility (NIF), has received the 2025 Distinguished Career Award by Fusion Power Associates.

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MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. — Lightmatter, photonic (super)computing company, today announced what the c ompany said is a foundational advancement in laser architecture: Very Large Scale Photonics (VLSP). Embodied in the Guide light engine, “this breakthrough creates the industry’s most integrated laser platform supporting unprecedented bandwidths—moving laser manufacturing from manual assembly lines toward foundry production,” Lightmatter […]

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COLLEGE PARK, Md. and BLOOMINGTON, Minn. – January 26, 2026 – IonQ and SkyWater Technology (NASDAQ: SKYT), a U.S.-based semiconductor foundry, today announced IonQ will acquire SkyWater for $35 per share in a cash-and-stock transaction, subject to a collar, implying a total equity value of approximately $1.8 billion.    “This transformational acquisition enables IonQ to materially accelerate its […]

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Our special guest today is Paul Bloch, President and Co-founder of DDN, the high performance storage and intelligent data platform company.
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Jan. 22, 2026 — Nokia, an IP networking and AI-HPC data center fabric provider, and Hypertec, an AI and HPC infrastructure company, today announced the deployment of Nibi, an advanced supercomputing cluster at the University of Waterloo in Ontario. The system is designed to support more than 4,000 researchers annually, expanding Canada’s capacity to advance […]

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BERKELEY, Calif., Jan. 20, 2026 — Rigetti Computing India P L, a wholly owned subsidiary of Rigetti Computing, Inc., announced it has received an $8.4 million order to deliver a 108-qubit quantum computer to the Centre for Development of Advanced Computing (C-DAC), an Indian R&D organization of the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology. The […]

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The Data Center Liquid Cooling Market was valued at USD 870 Million in 2024, and is projected to reach USD 10.70 billion by 2030, rising at a CAGR of 51.93%. Liquid cooling solutions are ....

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PALO ALTO, Calif., Jan. 20, 2026 — D-Wave Quantum Inc. today announced it has completed its previously announced acquisition of Quantum Circuits Inc., a developer of error-corrected superconducting gate-model quantum computing systems. D-Wave said it expects the acquisition to accelerate the time to a scaled, error-corrected gate-model quantum computer alongside and complementary to its commercial annealing […]

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Jan. 20, 2025 — Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory computer scientist Peter Lindstrom received the 2025 IEEE VIS Test of Time Award for his 2014 paper on near-lossless data compression, recognizing its lasting influence on the field of scientific visualization and high-performance computing. (Graphic: Dan Herchek) Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) computer scientist Peter Lindstrom recently […]

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Milpitas, CA, Jan. 20, 2026, VDURA today announced the release of the Flash Volatility Index and Storage Economics Optimizer Tool, an updated quarterly resource designed to help enterprises, infrastructure operators, and partners quantify flash pricing risk and evaluate storage architecture economics under changing market conditions. Enterprise flash pricing has entered a period of sustained volatility driven by hyperscaler […]

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Jan. 20, 2026 — The Argonne Leadership Computing Facility (ALCF) invites proposals for a new collaboration and development program, called APEX, designed to fast-track novel applications of AI in science. This program seeks proposals that apply AI methods in new, creative, or unconventional ways within their domain, such as introducing new AI methods or bringing […]

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Good Martin Luther King Day (US) to you!  Chips in their many forms and the manufacturing of them dominated the HPC-AI industry ....

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The award winning OpenMC software package is helping researchers at Argonne National Laboratory and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology develop next-g nuclear and fusion ....

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