Lambda, the Nvidia-powered AI cloud provider, is reportedly preparing for an IPO in the first half of 2026, with Morgan Stanley, J.P. Morgan, and Citi advising. The San Francisco firm nearly doubled cloud revenue in early 2025, hitting $250m in the first half, with gross margins at 50 percent. Backed by $1.65bn in funding, Lambda’s move follows rival CoreWeave’s high-profile public listing earlier this year. Read all
Cloudflare has joined the growing list of victims in the Drift-Salesforce breach, confirming that attackers accessed its Salesforce instance between August 12–17. While core infrastructure remained untouched, exposed data included customer contacts, support tickets, and potentially sensitive details like tokens. Cloudflare attributed the attack to threat group GRUB1 and has rotated all credentials as a safeguard. The company warned that the stolen information could fuel targeted attacks against affected organizations. Read all
Hostinger has issued a warning signal that the increasing number of AI crawlers on websites is a bad thing because the traffic they produce could be the reason for the lower numbers of actual visits to sites. The company’s recent analysis suggests that automated bots from Google, Meta, and OpenAI alone account for between 60 and 85 percent of daily visits across customer domains. Read all
IBM Cloud will overhaul its free Basic Support tier in January 2026, moving customers to a self-service model. Users will lose the ability to open or escalate technical cases but retain billing help and access to IBM’s AI assistant. While IBM says the change aligns with industry standards, critics note that rivals like AWS, Azure, and Google dominate market share, raising questions over whether IBM is cutting costs—or cutting off smaller customers. Read all
The developer community voted Liquid Web as the Best DDoS Protection Hosting Provider in the first Web Developer Choice Awards. Over 1,000 developers voted, which results in an outcome based on real-world experiences rather than on an analyst or industry panel opinion. Read all
Global data center power use could soar 50% by 2027, fueled largely by AI workloads, Goldman Sachs Research reports. AI’s share of data center energy demand may nearly double, rising to 27%, while traditional workloads decline. Meeting this surge could require $720 billion in new energy infrastructure, with natural gas poised to shoulder most of the load—raising fresh concerns over emissions, grid strain, and whether AI’s boom risks becoming a bubble. Read all
CoreWeave has acquired OpenPipe, a Y Combinator-backed startup known for its open-source agent reinforcement trainer (ART) toolkit. The deal strengthens CoreWeave’s push into reinforcement learning, a key method for fine-tuning AI agents to enterprise-specific tasks. Following earlier acquisitions like Weights & Biases, this move positions CoreWeave to serve both major AI labs and smaller firms needing compute-heavy, tailored AI training at scale. Read all
NexQloud Technologies has added six new patent applications to its growing portfolio, sharpening its push toward what it calls a global “cloud operating system.” The filings, published with the United States Patent and Trademark Office, extend the company’s earlier work on decentralized Kubernetes and outline a broader framework for managing compute across AI, virtual machines, and multi-cloud environments. Read all
SAP plans to invest over €20 billion across the next decade to expand its sovereign cloud services in Europe, aiming to meet strict GDPR and data sovereignty demands. The initiative includes a new Infrastructure-as-a-Service platform and on-prem deployment options, alongside its existing Delos Cloud for the German public sector. By tying sovereignty with innovation, SAP seeks to strengthen Europe’s digital resilience against global hyperscaler dominance. Read all
Hosted.com has rolled out a new Client Portal designed to make domain management a whole lot easier for businesses and freelancers. The portal pulls together essential features—think DNS, email setup, redirects, and security—into one streamlined dashboard. No more bouncing between a bunch of different tools just to get simple tasks done. Read all
Alibaba’s cloud unit reported 26% year-on-year revenue growth, hitting $4.66 billion in Q1 2026, with AI products driving the momentum. AI-related revenue alone delivered triple-digit gains for the eighth straight quarter, now making up over 20% of external customer sales. The results put Alibaba on par with U.S. hyperscalers like Microsoft and Google, while a new partnership with SAP underscores its growing global influence in cloud and enterprise AI. Read all
Crusoe Cloud has deployed Nvidia’s GB200 NVL72 system at atNorth’s ICE02 data center in Iceland, marking its first liquid-cooled rollout at the site. The move expands Crusoe’s capacity by 24MW, adding to its Blackwell and Hopper GPU fleet, all powered by renewable energy. Once focused on crypto, Crusoe has shifted to AI cloud services, now operating regions across the US and Europe with partners including Digital Realty and Equinix. Read all
Alibaba’s ramping up a series of research initiatives focused on streamlining its cloud network infrastructure. The main targets? Stuff like unexpected service disruptions, uneven workload allocation, and those stubborn inefficiencies that just won’t quit. Cost reduction is a big part of the agenda, too. They’re planning to showcase their findings at SIGCOMM, which, if you know networking, is a pretty serious venue. Read all
