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CoreWeave said it is working with AdaniConneX to build 240 MW of capacity in India. CoreWeave will be sole tenant and will deploy Nvidia's Vera Rubin platform in the facility.

Fully Connected 2026 coverage:

• CoreWeave's AI Cloud: From Infrastructure to the AI Loop
• AI Gets Cheaper. Demand Gets Bigger: Inside CoreWeave’s AI Infrastructure Strategy
• CoreWeave launches CoreWeave Forge: Here's a look at the strategy

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• Eli Lilly: Lessons from running an AI factory
• How Capital One evaluates, governs its AI agents
• Caterpillar's AI autonomy efforts accelerate, but domain knowledge drives returns

Automation Anywhere said it will acquire Boost.ai from Nordic Capital. The move gives Automation Anywhere voice AI tools for customer experience. The Boost.ai deal complements the company's acquisition of Aisera, which added enterprise knowledge and employee experience tools to Automation Anywhere's platform.

OpenAI released a set of mathematical results from an internal frontier model with the results on GitHub. In other words, OpenAI is showing its work to the math community.

Dell Technologies said it is expanding its Dell AI Data Platform, which serves as the data foundation of Dell AI Factory, is adding a Unified Semantic Layer, Enterprise Knowledge Graph and storage enhancements. Dell said its Dell AI Data Platform shortens the wait time between question and insight nearly 4 times faster than CPUs alone.

According to Dell, its AI Data Platform will layer in Nvidia Nemotron Reteriver models and Nvidia Auto-Ontology to extend the United Semantic Layer.

The Unified Semantic Layer, Enterprise Knowledge Graph and Knowledge Agents will be released in the first half of 2027. Dell Data Processing Engine enhancements with the Nvidia acceleration stack will be available in December 2026, with further acceleration using Apache Arrow expected in the first half of 2027. Dell PowerScale security and multitenancy enhancements land in November.

New Relic announced a trio of AI observability advances at its annual conference. The company launched Infrastructure 360 to provide visibility into AI workloads, New Relic Ground Truth CLI for headless observability, and AI Evaluation, which evaluates AI product and outcomes.

Infleqtion, Honeywell Aerospace and UC Santa Barbara said they collaborated on developing a new integrated optical "cavity" to shrink quantum sensors down to handheld size. The prototype was fabricated on a silicon nitride chip at Honeywell Aerospace's photonics foundry.

Cohere said it has revamped North 2 with a new agent harness, redesigned AI agent orchestration systems, more tools for workflows, AI sovereignty and governance and a model agnostic approach.

Reflection launched Beam, an open weight sparse mixture of experts model that has 501 billion total parameters. The model is designed to compete with open models from China. The company said:

"Beam advances the Western open-weight frontier and is competitive with larger open models like GLM 5.2 and approaching Qwen 3.8-Max on coding and agentic tasks. Where frontier open models like Kimi K3 remain ahead on raw capability, Beam's advantage is efficiency at inference time."

Reflection said Beam will be in early access soon.

Trmeric raised $6.5 million in venture funding led by Hitachi Ventures. Trmeric said it will use new capital for accelerate product innovation and scale.

EQUS launched EQUS X, a personal AI that is pared with private data controlled by the user. The core pitch is that nothing is read by AI unless the user allows it and can turn off access easily. What the AI learns is in private data storge instead of servers owned by model providers. The company said it is accepting priority access requests with general availability later this month with a plan for businesses on deck.

Sandy Carter, who riffed at AI Forum in March on OpenClaw, is CEO of EQUS and saw enough privacy headaches to build a product.

Paramount Skydance announced its new management team ahead of closing its Warner Bros. Discovery acquisition. You can read the lineup in the press release, but the CEO Leadership Team (CLT) sticks out for what's not included. Where's the CIO or CTO? Who's leading the AI strategy? How will streaming platforms be combined? Is the combined company running on Oracle since the deal was largely funded with Larry Ellison's money?

Yes, Dane Glasgow, Chief Product Officer, is driving technical strategy and is a Facebook and Google alum, but
for a media conglomerate allegedly "powered by creativity and technology" you'd think some tech heft would be in the announcement.

Insight Partners launched a dedicated program to help its portfolio companies with forward deployed engineers (FDEs) in a bid to make them AI native. The effort is backed by an FDE Advisory Council, which includes execs from Databricks, ServiceNow, Microsoft, SAP and Salesforce. Private equity firms are trying to retool portfolio companies as SaaS valuations have tanked. To generate value, not to mention exits, firms will need to transform the holdings they have to generate value.