iPronics raises $125 million for optical AI data-center switching
Valencia-based iPronics has announced a $125 million Series B round, with Nvidia participating, to expand its optical circuit-switching business for AI data centers. Maverick Silicon and Light Street Capital co-led the round, bri...
Microsoft plans quarterly Azure sales disclosure
Microsoft will begin disclosing quarterly sales for Azure, reversing its prior approach after Wall Street criticism over visibility into the company's principal growth engine. The change would give investors a separate reported me...
AWS opens Bedrock access to GPT-5.6 models from Australia
AWS says teams using its Sydney and Melbourne regions can now invoke OpenAI GPT-5.6 Sol, Terra and Luna through Amazon Bedrock global cross-Region inference. Applications call a local Bedrock Runtime endpoint while AWS routes proc...
AWS brings Bedrock Web Search to GovCloud West
Amazon Bedrock's server-side Web Search tool is now available in AWS GovCloud (US-West), AWS said. The service lets supported OpenAI GPT models retrieve web results with citations inside Bedrock; AWS says administrators can contro...
FCC proposes robocall-blocking scorecards for phone providers
The Federal Communications Commission said it will develop a robocall mitigation scorecard to assess how effectively phone companies block illegal spam calls. The proposed scorecards could combine call-blocking statistics, custome...
Researchers release AI road map covering 9 million kilometers
Researchers at Heidelberg University and HeiGIT released an open-access dataset that maps and classifies more than 9 million kilometers of roads worldwide from PlanetScope satellite imagery collected between 2020 and 2024. The dat...