Enterprise
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Atira raises $15m to automate industrial bidding
Atira has raised $15m to automate complex manufacturing sales engineering workflows.
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Laser defence startup moves towards production
INLEAP Photonics has raised €20m to industrialise laser-based counter drone systems.
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3i deal deepens Nordic data centre capital rush
3i Infrastructure has completed a €263m investment in Norway’s Lefdal Mine Datacenter.
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Optical switching draws $125m AI infrastructure bet
Spanish photonics company iPronics has raised $125m for AI networking infrastructure.
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Mainframe AI stops short of autonomy
BMC’s latest mainframe survey finds enterprises moving AI into operational use while remaining cautious about autonomous action, exposing a governance problem as agents reach systems carrying critical business data and transactions.
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Equinix pushes networking towards intent
Equinix has unveiled a managed networking service that turns connectivity requirements into automatically orchestrated routes across cloud, AI, and enterprise infrastructure, moving another layer of network engineering behind software and APIs.
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AWS puts limits around agentic customer service
AWS has launched its agentic customer-experience designer in London and Frankfurt, combining generative conversations with fixed workflows where approvals, routing, eligibility, and compliance cannot be left to probabilistic reasoning.
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The human side of industrial IoT: giving operators better choices
Industrial AI is shifting operators from reconciliation towards informed decisions. Harpreet Gulati, SVP – Head of PI System Business at AVEVA, argues that contextualised industrial data can turn fragmented systems into more usable operational guidance.
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AI inference becomes an infrastructure decision
Equinix is building a distributed inference service with Nvidia and Together AI, betting that model location will become a cost, performance, and governance decision as enterprise AI moves deeper into production.
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Telecom security rules reach procurement
A five-year DDoS protection contract with an unnamed Tier-1 UK telecoms provider shows security regulation feeding directly into infrastructure procurement as operators face tighter requirements around resilience, control, and network operations.
