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Anil Chakravarthy will become Adobe president and CEO on December 1, 2026, succeeding Shantanu Narayen, who moves to executive chair. Chakravarthy currently leads customer experience orchestration and workflow at Adobe, and the transition aims to turn AI advances into durable growth.

YoLearn.ai, a Noida-based voice-first AI tutoring platform for K-12 students, raised undisclosed seed funding led by ABP Education. Founded in January 2025 by Kirti Prakash Mishra, the startup supports 22 Indian regional languages and will expand engineering teams and cloud infrastructure.

PatientIQ, a Chicago healthcare technology company, raised $30 million in Series C funding led by Hughes & Company, with Health Enterprise Partners and August Capital participating. The company will expand its real-world evidence platform and develop a direct-to-patient commerce experience. PatientIQ's network includes over 870 healthcare organizations.

Google Cloud Startup Summit will explore how agentic AI can reshape startup growth. The event addresses moving beyond AI wrappers and passive chatbots toward automating complex workflows. Data shows 55% of organizations cite faster strategic decision-making as a measurable outcome.

Google Cloud's us-central1-b region suffered severe network degradation on September 1 after an engineer unplugged visible fibers. The incident, lasting from 07:41 to 11:52 PT, caused 100% traffic flow drops, unreachable virtual machines, and elevated packet loss.

ESDS Software Solution listed at ₹757 on the NSE, a 76.5% premium over its ₹429 IPO price, and at ₹746.30 on the BSE. The ₹720 Cr IPO was oversubscribed 135.88X, with ₹576 Cr earmarked for cloud infrastructure.

Adani Ports and Special Economic Zone Ltd. (APSEZ) will launch a dedicated Empty Container Yard (ECY) with integrated warehousing at Mundra Port. The facility offers end-to-end services across the empty container lifecycle, including storage, maintenance, inspection, and movement to exporters and Container Freight Stations. Shares traded at Rs 1707.70, up Rs 21.10 (+1.25%).

Microsoft will impose monthly hour limits on Xbox Cloud Gaming starting in November. Game Pass Ultimate, Premium, and Essential subscribers receive 15, 10, and 5 hours respectively before buying more. Players can also purchase cloud playtime without a Game Pass subscription.

Nvidia launched PAIR, a free open-source tool that pools idle computers on a home network for local AI inference and agentic workloads. It supports GeForce RTX 20-series and newer, RTX Pro GPUs, DGX Spark systems, and Apple M4 chips or newer, with beta available for Windows, Linux, and macOS.

Google DeepMind and Google Research released WeatherNext 3, an AI weather model that ingests live geostationary satellite mosaics and re-initializes every hour. It produces global forecasts at 0.05° (~5 km) resolution, training on raw weather station observations instead of reanalysis grids alone.

Crusoe raised $3 billion at a $30 billion valuation in a round co-led by Atreides Management and Valor Equity Partners, with Mubadala Capital participating. The AI infrastructure provider recently signed a $13 billion, five-year cloud contract with Jane Street.

Upwind Security Inc. raised $300 million in Series C funding led by Bessemer and TCV, with Salesforce Ventures, Greylock, and Craft Ventures participating. The cloud security platform is now valued at $3.8 billion, up $2 billion since the start of the year.

Microsoft will cap Xbox Cloud Gaming hours by Game Pass tier starting in November, citing rising cloud costs. The change affects 4% of subscribers, who can buy extra time. Pricing details arrive in November.

Zscaler beat Q4 estimates with $1.19 adjusted EPS on $898.2M revenue, up 25% year-over-year, but shares sagged after-hours. The Red Canary acquisition added $141M ARR. Fiscal 2027 guidance topped analyst expectations.

UGREEN launched HomeAgent HA100, HA100 Pro, and MasterAgent MA100 smart home hubs at Gillette Stadium, keeping AI and storage local. The MA100 runs on Nvidia Jetson Thor with 2,070 TOPS and costs $20,000, while HA100 models start at $1,799.

Amazon Linux 2027 is now in preview, powered by Linux 7.1 and built with LTO. The distribution targets x86-64-v3 microarchitecture, marking a significant update for AWS users.

Crusoe signed a five-year deal worth approximately $13 billion with Jane Street to provide GPUs and other infrastructure for AI training and inference through its cloud platform. The agreement covers substantial computing resources for the trading firm.

Attackers breached Coder's Cloudflare infrastructure and added unauthorized registry servers that delivered malicious Terraform modules stealing credentials. The exposure window ran 07:35 to 21:45 UTC on Monday, August 31. Coder recommends rotating secrets and checking logs for coder-infra[.]com connections.

Higher-speed data center networks are shifting fiber patch cord sourcing from standard SKUs to customized assemblies. IEEE 802.3df-2024 defines 400 Gb/s and 800 Gb/s Ethernet with an eight-lane architecture. Buyers now need MPO/MTP trunks, breakout assemblies, and pre-terminated options alongside traditional LC and SC cords.

ThinkOn Inc. is extending its VMware Cloud Foundation control plane to private AI infrastructure, serving Canada's Sovereign AI Platform across 23 federal departments. The company fields three to four weekly inquiries, with half for private AI services. Founder Craig McLellan discussed sovereignty and GPU economics at VMware Explore.

Tottenham Hotspur saved over 85 percent in licensing fees by replacing its stadium's VMware instance with Hewlett-Packard Enterprise's Morpheus VM Essentials virtualization software. The Premier League club moved its server, storage, and networking infrastructure to HPE solutions via GreenLake.

Anthropic PBC launched Claude Fable 5.1 and Claude Mythos 5.1, its most capable large language models to date. The launch follows a $35 billion cloud deal with Nvidia-backed Lambda for a 350-megawatt Hut 8 Texas data center, plus a $45 billion Nscale agreement.