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Singapore and Vietnam are racing to host AI compute capacity while Alibaba stakes $10.2bn on the infrastructure underpinning it all.

A $400m raise and a $50m Lumilens order position POET's optical interposer at AI infrastructure's next bottleneck: the photon.

New Middle East research from Accenture finds a widening gulf between national AI ambition and enterprise execution across the region.

A $5bn raise at a $190bn valuation confirms Databricks as the default data infrastructure layer for enterprise AI agents.

India's Persistent Systems acquires Munich-listed Nagarro at a 140% premium, marking one of the boldest cross-border IT services consolidations of 2026.

LDA Maze delivers 3.6ns port-to-port latency across 160 links, targeting capital markets firms and HPC operators scaling to 25G.

LDA Maze delivers 160 links at sub-4ns latency, targeting capital markets, HPC and AI workloads in a single chassis fabric.

Rippling's new AI governance layer connects token spend to revenue signals, as enterprises demand ROI proof from AI budgets.

ClearScore's D•One plugs Abound into 3.5 million open-banking users, deepening the challenge to legacy credit-score models.

ABB's minority stake in the world's largest clean energy marketplace signals industrial electrification converging with sophisticated PPA deal infrastructure.

Berlin-based Pliant mirrors its EU embedded-finance stack in the US, signalling European fintech's accelerating transatlantic expansion push.

A three-way MOA links nuclear tech, US utility scale and Korean construction muscle to power AI data centres in the Gulf South.

Decube's Agent Registry and Lineage tools give banks, insurers and telecoms an auditable record of every AI agent touching their data.

A US web-native AI startup and Japan's NESIC are co-building a verified data layer to underpin autonomous AI agents across Japanese enterprises.

The fintech infrastructure firm promotes four senior executives as it eyes new geographies and emerging asset classes.

Europe's largest cloud provider absorbs a French speech-to-text startup to deepen its sovereign AI stack against US hyperscaler rivals.

Cloudera's Forrester Leader ranking highlights how data governance infrastructure is becoming the decisive battleground for enterprise AI.

The India-listed IT services firm posts $405m in quarterly revenue, with healthcare and APAC outperforming as AI-led deals multiply.

Eurofound warns Europe will miss its 2030 digital workforce target, with global recruitment now the sector's primary growth engine.

A three-way consortium targets MoD supply chain resilience by fusing British logistics, defence pedigree and IBM's digital infrastructure.