AI Infrastructure

New York – September 16, 2026 -- Qualcomm and Amazon unveiled a multi-generational product collaboration to build next-generation AI data center infrastructure, combining Amazon's cloud-scale compute with Qualcomm's power-efficient silicon design.

Qualcomm and Amazon target AI data center bottlenecks

The partnership addresses surging demand for compute, storage, networking and memory bandwidth as AI workloads scale exponentially, pairing Amazon's infrastructure with Qualcomm Technologies' system-level integration expertise.

Labcorp acquires MLM Medical Labs to expand clinical trial network

Labcorp's acquisition of MLM Medical Labs extends its central laboratory footprint, making it the only central lab provider with a wholly owned network spanning North America, Europe, Asia and Africa for biomarker and clinical trial services.

Beijing – September 16, 2026 -- Cheetah Mobile Inc. (NYSE: CMCM) reported total revenue of RMB266.1 million (US$39.2 million) for the quarter ended June 30, 2026, down 9.9% year over year but up 2.7% quarter over quarter, as growth in cloud, AI infrastructure and robotics offset a sharp decline in advertising agency services.

Nashville, Tenn. – September 16, 2026 -- Enigmata, Inc. emerged from stealth with $6.5 million in seed funding led by Blockchange Ventures to commercialize a cryptographic technology that lets artificial intelligence train and analyze data while it remains encrypted.

Enigmata Cipher lets AI train directly on encrypted records without decryption

The patent-pending technology, called Enigmata Cipher, transforms records, documents, and datasets into an encrypted form usable by AI, analytics, and search tools on existing enterprise hardware. It targets workflows where sensitive data would otherwise be exposed, including model training on proprietary datasets, enterprise use of third-party AI systems, and agentic applications.

San Francisco – – September 16, 2026 -- Nasuni has acquired DryvIQ, adding AI-powered content classification and governance tools to its unstructured data platform for enterprise and AI workloads. Carlsquare advised DryvIQ on the transaction; financial terms were not disclosed.

Nasuni folds content intelligence into its file data platform to close a governance gap

The deal gives Nasuni's platform content-level discovery, classification, sensitivity detection and automated policy-driven governance, extending visibility beyond Nasuni's own environment into more than 40 cloud and on-premises repositories. Nick Burling, Chief Product Officer at Nasuni, said the company has added edge performance through Resilio, permission-aware AI access through AI Activate, and now governance through DryvIQ within the same year, positioning UniFS as a single foundation to manage, move, classify, govern and activate enterprise file data.

San Francisco – September 15, 2026 -- Abacus.AI has released a new family of open-weight large language models, Smaug, claiming 10-100x lower operating costs than frontier models from Anthropic and OpenAI while improving long-running agentic loop performance by 15-20%.

Ashburn, Va. – September 15, 2026 -- QTS Data Centers has committed $1 billion to a global water stewardship initiative aimed at making the company water positive by 2035, restoring more water than it withdraws across its operations.

QTS commits $250 million to Texas water infrastructure over the next decade

The company's first major deployment under the pledge targets Texas, where it will fund water infrastructure and conservation projects, including replacement of the aging water tower in Turkey, Texas. QTS is also allocating $15 million over 10 years to the Bonneville Environmental Foundation for leak detection, habitat restoration and irrigation-efficiency projects across the state.

Mountainside, N.J. – September 15, 2026 -- Yorkville America Equities, LLC launched the Next Generation Memory Index ETF (NRAM) on September 10, 2026, giving investors direct exposure to the memory and storage layer underpinning artificial intelligence infrastructure.

NRAM begins trading on NYSE Arca and NYSE Texas with a 0.60% expense ratio

The passively managed fund tracks the YA MarketVector Next Generation Memory Index (MVRAM), effective August 28, 2026, and pays distributions annually with quarterly index rebalancing.

Index caps concentration risk through tiered weighting rules

MVRAM targets 20 constituents selected for their role in designing, developing, manufacturing or supplying physical memory technologies. Dedicated memory companies are capped at 15% of index weight, while diversified memory companies are capped at 4.5%, using a modified float-adjusted market-capitalization methodology.

Berlin – September 15, 2026 -- Rokid unveiled AIUI Studio at IFA Berlin 2026, a browser-based development platform that lets creators build and publish spatial AI applications for its AI Glasses without writing code.

Platform cuts development barriers for smart-glasses agents

AIUI Studio integrates the AIUI Skills Library framework and AIUI Code assistance, letting developers optimize latency, memory use and power consumption on Rokid hardware. Built-in hardware simulation allows app creation and testing without owning a physical device, while users can dictate ideas in plain language and have the platform generate the application automatically.

Ben Liu, head of global communications and branding at Rokid, said an open AI ecosystem must let people implement their own ideas, not just access existing models and apps.

Berlin – September 15, 2026 -- Rokid unveiled AIUI Studio at IFA Berlin 2026, a browser-based development platform that lets users build AI applications for its smart glasses without writing code.

Rokid opens no-code AI development to its 35,000-strong developer base

The platform integrates the AIUI Skills Library framework and AIUI code assistance, allowing developers to dictate app concepts in plain language while the system generates functioning agents for Rokid AI Glasses. Built-in hardware simulation lets creators design and test applications without owning a physical device, while the platform actively reduces latency, memory usage and power consumption on Rokid's hardware.

Zurich – September 15, 2026 -- ABB and the Boston Consulting Group (BCG) have released a joint report concluding that 800-volt direct current (DC) distribution is emerging as the reference architecture for next-generation artificial intelligence data centers, as surging computing loads push conventional AC power infrastructure to its practical limits.

The report, titled "The Strategic Case for Hybrid AC/DC Power: Shaping the Transition to the Next Electrical Architecture," argues that decisions made by business leaders and policymakers over the next two to three years will determine which players shape the shift toward hybrid AC/DC grids and which merely inherit it.