KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America 2026
KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America 2026 runs November 9 to 12, 2026 at the Salt Palace Convention Center in Salt Lake City, with the main conference on November 10 to 12 and November 9 for co-located events and lightning talks. Coverage of the event highlights Kubernetes and AI.A trade-show listing places the 2027 edition in […]
NVIDIA GTC Berlin 2026
NVIDIA GTC Berlin 2026 runs October 20 to 22 at STATION-Berlin, with training workshops on October 20, the keynote on October 21 at the Tempodrom, and the conference and exhibits on October 21 and 22, according to NVIDIA’s FAQ.Jensen Huang’s European tour, which began in Paris, is expected to produce further announcements at the event, […]
Nscale AI Cloud
Nscale’s AI cloud sells GPU capacity and related services from data centers it builds, to customers including Microsoft, under an agreement announced in October 2025 worth $14 billion for 200,000 Nvidia chips, and Anthropic, under a roughly $45 billion, six-year agreement for its West Virginia campus.Contracts are bespoke and pricing is not public. The company’s […]
Salience All-Optical Circuit Switch
Salience Labs’ all-optical circuit switch connects AI clusters over optical paths rather than electrical switching. The company launched a 32-port all-optical silicon photonic switch in March 2026 and showed a 64-port version at ECOC 2026, with 128-port and 256-port versions in development.Company figures include latency under 10 nanoseconds and testing at 200G per lane, which […]
Nscale
Nscale is a London-based AI infrastructure company founded in 2024 as a spinoff of the crypto miner Arkon Energy, led by founder and CEO Josh Payne. It builds data center capacity, deploys GPUs and sells cloud services, with a backlog it puts at $103 billion, about 85% from a Microsoft supply agreement and a roughly […]
Salience Labs
Salience Labs is an Oxford company founded in 2021 that builds photonic switches for AI data centers, drawing on research from the University of Oxford and the University of Munster. Vaysh Kewada is CEO and Johannes Feldmann is CTO. It launched a 32-port all-optical silicon photonic switch in March 2026.SiliconANGLE reported on October 14, 2026 […]
SC26 (Supercomputing 2026)
SC26, the international supercomputing conference, runs November 15 to 20, 2026, at McCormick Place in Chicago, with the exhibit floor open November 17 to 19. Registration opened July 8, 2026.With AI buildouts now measured in gigawatts, high-performance computing and AI infrastructure increasingly overlap, and the conference is a place where hardware, networking and systems vendors […]