AI Infrastructure & Data Centers

Glen Allen, Va. – September 11, 2026 -- ChemTreat, Inc. has been selected as a preferred service provider in Ohio for Dow's Coolant Care Network, expanding its footprint in a state experiencing rapid data center growth. The Veralto operating company already holds status as Dow's only preferred service provider in Virginia and serves as a strategic service provider nationally.

Dow ties coolant support to data center construction timelines

Chuck Carn, Dow Data Center Growth Platform Director, said operators and construction teams need coolant support in place before systems come online rather than sourced afterward. The Ohio designation puts a qualified service provider on the ground, backed by Dow fluids, vetted test labs, and Dow's technical specialists.

Washington – September 11, 2026 -- A majority of congressional staffers, 63 percent, oppose the U.S. government taking equity stakes in private artificial intelligence companies, according to a CNCT Capitol Pulse survey highlighted by HillFaith, a Capitol Hill fellowship ministry.

Democratic aides show the strongest opposition to federal AI equity stakes

Among Democratic staffers, 67 percent said they "strongly oppose" the government acquiring stakes in AI firms, compared with 58 percent of Republican aides holding the same position. The partisan gap reverses in the "somewhat opposed" category, where 24 percent of Republican staffers registered opposition versus just 5 percent of Democrats.

Tysons Corner, VA – September 11, 2026 -- Merlin will integrate Torq's AI SOC Platform into its SOC Modernization architecture for federal agencies, a partnership that also accelerates Torq's push toward FedRAMP authorization through Constellation GovCloud.

Merlin Validated Solutions unifies fragmented federal security tools into one automated workflow

The agreement places Torq inside Merlin Validated Solutions (MVS), a portfolio of pre-tested, mission-ready architectures. Rather than displacing agencies' existing security investments, MVS links disconnected tools into a single detection-to-response pipeline governed by human-in-the-loop authorization rather than unchecked automation.

Hangzhou – September 11, 2026 -- Hikvision's Guanlan large-scale AI models have cut false perimeter alarms by 90% while doubling detection range compared with traditional cameras, more than a year after the platform's launch.

DeepinViewX cameras halve repeated alarms on the same target

The edge-deployed DeepinViewX cameras run the Guanlan model directly, reducing false triggers from animals, weather and vegetation that plague legacy perimeter systems. Detection range doubles versus conventional cameras, and repeated alarms on a single target drop by half. The system pairs optical sensors for short perimeters with thermal, radar and fiber-optic sensing for longer distances.

Hangzhou – September 11, 2026 -- FastGPT, an open-source AI orchestration platform, has released multiple updated versions -- v4.8.10, v4.9.2 and v4.16.0 -- adding conditional workflow logic and revised self-hosted deployment requirements.

New user selection node enables Confirm/Cancel branching in workflows

The update introduces a user selection node allowing conditional branching via Confirm/Cancel prompts, though the feature is limited to workflow use and incompatible with plugins, tool calls, or Debug mode. Additional workflow changes include automatic edge and center alignment for dragged nodes, local editing history with undo/redo shortcuts, and workflow version renaming. Migrated application call nodes, plugin usage description configuration, and HTTP node support for text/plain mode and timeout settings round out the design updates.

Shanghai – September 10, 2026 -- Alibaba Cloud and Cambricon have joined the PyTorch Foundation as Platinum members, while Ant Group has signed on as a Gold member, the Linux Foundation-backed body announced at the first KubeCon + CloudNativeCon + OpenInfra Summit + PyTorch Conference China 2026 in Shanghai.

Three Chinese AI giants formalize ties to the open source framework governing global model deployment

The moves add Alibaba Cloud and Cambricon to the Foundation's Governing Board and Technical Advisory Council, each securing one seat on both bodies. Ant Group's Gold membership grants it a role in advancing production-grade AI infrastructure platforms. The three companies join Huawei, which has been a Foundation member since 2023 and helped launch the Accelerator Integration Working Group that brought Ascend NPU support into PyTorch as its first additional hardware platform.

Seoul – September 10, 2026 -- Hyosung Heavy Industries has developed the world's first 22.9kV, 1.05MVA-class Solid State Transformer (SST) capable of direct connection to urban distribution networks, giving the South Korean manufacturer an early lead in a market projected to grow more than 40% annually.

AI-driven power demand pushes Hyosung to scale U.S. production

The company has invested USD 300 million to acquire and expand an ultra-high-voltage transformer manufacturing facility in Memphis, Tennessee, which will become one of the largest such production bases in the United States once expansion completes.

Berlin – September 10, 2026 -- Germany's TÜV testing organizations are building a joint certification framework for artificial intelligence systems, with market rollout targeted for late 2026, as new survey data shows 79 percent of German citizens fear uncalculable risks from AI.

Survey shows trust gap even among active AI users

According to the TÜV Association's 2025 AI study, a representative survey conducted around September 10, 2026, 79 percent of German citizens fear unpredictable AI risks. Among people who actively use AI applications, only 53 percent trust that the results and answers produced are correct.

Vancouver – September 09, 2026 -- Inturai Ventures Corp. (CSE: URAI) (OTC: URAIF) (FSE: 3QG0) has closed the final tranche of its non-brokered private placement, bringing total gross proceeds from the offering to $963,713.70.

Final tranche adds $22,714.05 to funding round

The company issued 151,427 Units at $0.15 per Unit in the second and final tranche, completing an offering that in aggregate saw 6,424,758 Units sold since inception.

Each unit pairs a share with a two-year warrant priced at $0.25

Every Unit comprises one common share and one warrant, with the warrant exercisable for 24 months at $0.25 per share. The warrants carry an accelerated expiry clause: if Inturai's share price closes at or above $0.35 for five consecutive trading days, the company can trigger a 30-day exercise window before expiry.

Santa Clara, Calif. – September 09, 2026 -- Vobile, Inc. has signed strategic cooperation and commercial agreements with Unified National Networks Sdn Bhd (UNN), Brunei Darussalam's national telecommunications network operator, securing dedicated AI data center capacity to scale its content-protection and generative AI platform across Southeast Asia.