AI Infrastructure

Dallas – September 28, 2026 -- TrendAI, the AI security business unit of Trend Micro Incorporated (TYO: 4704; TSE: 4704), announced support for the NVIDIA Agent Safety Platform, combining hardware-level detection on NVIDIA BlueField DPUs with Zero Day Initiative threat intelligence to help enterprises move autonomous agent fleets from pilot programs into production.

NVIDIA's Agent Safety Platform Enforces Policy Through BlueField-4 DPUs Outside the Agent's Reach

NVIDIA's OpenShell component enforces policy outside an agent's execution environment, preventing it from being prompted away or bypassed, while BlueField-4 DPUs and NVIDIA DOCA add a security layer in silicon that operates independently of the host system. TrendAI positions its platform as the layer that determines what that enforced policy should be, providing visibility into agent behavior and the threat detection needed to act on it.

Melbourne – September 28, 2026 -- The Australian Open has named Chinese sports technology firm Pongbot its Official Ball Machine under a new multi-year agreement covering the 2027 tournament (AO27).

Deal extends to Tennis Australia's National Tennis Academy

The partnership also designates Pongbot as Official Ball Machine Supplier of the National Tennis Academy, embedding its AI-powered equipment into Tennis Australia's player development pathway.

AI Coach technology targets training consistency and performance data

Pongbot's product line, including its AI Coach system, will be deployed for high-performance training, consistent ball repetition, data collection and performance analysis at the tournament and academy.

Pongbot CEO Haibo Zhang said the partnership centers on using AI Coach to change how players train and convert sustained effort into measurable progress.

Shenzhen – September 27, 2026 -- Memory and storage executives from Samsung, Sandisk, Solidigm, Arm and Lenovo converged in Shenzhen on September 23 to argue that AI inference workloads, not training alone, are now the primary driver reshaping storage architecture demand. The 5th GMIF2026 Innovation Summit, co-hosted by the Shenzhen Memory Industry Association (SMIA) and Peking University's School of Integrated Circuits, drew IDMs, controller makers, OSATs, and AI infrastructure vendors under the theme "The Future Built on AI Memory and Storage."

Los Angeles – September 25, 2026 -- MeetKai is rolling out a sovereign AI stack built on NVIDIA accelerated computing across six countries -- Brazil, Ukraine, Pakistan, Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan and Bangladesh -- home to more than 700 million people, following a public-tender win in Brazil and plans for the first national-scale AI factory in Ukraine.

SERPRO awards MeetKai Brasil the top score in Brazil's national sovereign AI tender

MeetKai Brasil won the public tender run by SERPRO, Brazil's federal government IT company, to deploy a sovereign AI platform and locally trained models on NVIDIA accelerated computing inside the country. The deployment includes a sovereign coding agent for secure workflows and targets regulated sectors -- banks, insurers, energy companies and state-owned enterprises -- whose regulators require workloads to remain under Brazilian control.

Singapore – September 25, 2026 -- Brightray Veridian Pte. Ltd., a wholly owned subsidiary of Brightray Science Inc., has signed a Prefabricated Module Sales Framework Agreement with a Macao-based developer for a planned 40MW artificial intelligence data center in Coloane, Macao, with delivery targeted for the third quarter of 2027.

Framework agreement covers 40MW AI data center at Coloane site

New York – September 25, 2026 -- Sixty-nine percent of enterprise technology decision-makers now weigh energy more heavily in AI and data infrastructure decisions than a year ago, according to new research from EnterpriseDB (EDB) presented at the United Nations Global Compact Leaders Summit this week. The survey of 300 respondents, conducted in September 2026, found reliability of supply cited by 49% of respondents as a leading energy factor, with cost and energy efficiency each cited by 48%.

London – – September 25, 2026 -- Nscale Limited has closed a $3.36 billion convertible loan note financing led by Third Point, with NVIDIA committing an additional $1 billion tranche expected to fund in mid-November 2026.

Nscale secures $2.36 billion at initial closing, with NVIDIA's $1 billion tranche to follow

The financing structure splits into two tranches: a $2.36 billion initial close and a subsequent $1 billion commitment from NVIDIA. Goldman Sachs & Co. LLC acted as placement agent for the round.

Las Vegas – September 25, 2026 -- Ault & Company, Inc. has invested $55 million directly into Hyperscale Data, Inc. through convertible preferred stock purchases, building a beneficial ownership stake of approximately 62% in the NYSE American-listed company.

Ault & Company files 13D amendment disclosing 62% stake in Hyperscale Data

The $55 million figure excludes additional funds spent by Ault & Company and its affiliates on Hyperscale Data common stock through open market purchases. Details of the ownership position appear in Schedule 13D/A Amendment No. 19, filed with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission on September 15, 2026.

Austin, Texas – September 24, 2026 -- Forge AI Deployment has committed $30 million to webAI to build and deploy private, specialized AI systems for enterprise customers, the companies announced.

Forge pairs $30 million commitment with webAI's collaborative intelligence platform

The deal combines webAI's technology with Forge's enterprise deployment and services operation. Forge will work directly with customers to build AI systems around proprietary data, workflows and operations, running on infrastructure those customers control, from individual specialized AI Personas to company-wide deployments.

Los Angeles – September 24, 2026 -- Stand8, a global technology consulting firm, has launched the Stand8 Model Gateway, a new enterprise AI service designed to reduce model spending and compress the path from proof of concept to production AI deployment into a 90-day sprint.

Gateway routes each AI task to the most cost-effective model without touching client data

The gateway is deployed inside the client's own cloud account on AWS, Microsoft Azure, or Google Cloud, sitting between applications and the models they call. Stand8 designs and tunes the routing logic but does not sit in the data path itself. The system evaluates each task and routes it to the most appropriate option among leading closed models, open-source and open-weight models, or smaller fine-tuned models, while layering in caching, identity, policy, and audit controls.