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REDWOOD CITY, CA, Sep 4, 2026 – Equinix has announced Equinix Inference Exchange, a distributed AI inference service for global enterprises built with NVIDIA and Together AI. The service is expected to be available starting in Q1 2027. The service combines NVIDIA’s Enterprise Reference Architecture with Together AI’s inference platform, which supports more than 200 open-source models.

WEYMOUTH, MA, Sep 4, 2026 – Electro Switch has acquired PowerComm, a manufacturer of power-line carrier sets, monitors and analyzers for utility transmission substations. The equipment supports grid protection and communications while monitoring transmission-line performance and reliability. PowerComm has served the utility market for 25 years. Its products are specified in utility infrastructure designs.

Rapid growth in artificial intelligence, cloud services, and high-performance computing is driving a major data center construction boom. While attention often centers on power capacity, cooling, and costs, Architosh contributor Dave Wagner argues that managing project information has become equally important to successful delivery. Data center projects involve hundreds of organizations, thousands of decisions, and millions of pieces of information.

NVIDIA has invested $3.5 billion in convertible bonds issued by MediaTek as the two companies expand their collaboration across AI infrastructure, local AI computing, and automotive. MediaTek will adopt NVIDIA’s NVLink Fusion platform as the design foundation for customers building custom XPUs. NVLink Fusion gives hyperscalers, cloud service providers, and frontier model developers a pre-validated path to custom accelerators that connect into NVIDIA NVLink rack-scale AI factories.

Stanford researchers are developing precise printing methods for cultivated meat, soft robots, structural batteries, metamaterials, and other applications. Stanford University researcher Natalie Larson is advancing multimaterial 3D printing to create objects that combine different materials, properties, and functions within a single structure.

BERLIN, Germany, Sep 4, 2026 – Ahead of IFA 2026, Qualcomm has announced two new Dragonwing processors: the Dragonwing Q-2390 for commercial and consumer IoT products and the Dragonwing IQ-2390, the first processor in the company’s industrial IQ2 series.

Parametric modeling, automated simulation, and AI-driven design exploration are helping JetZero optimize its Z4 aircraft while tackling the complexities of blended-wing flight. Aerospace startup JetZero is using advanced modeling, simulation, automation, and AI to develop its Z4 blended-wing body aircraft.

MIT researchers adapt standard semiconductor processes to produce bendable silicon-photonics wafers for wearables, augmented reality displays, and other optical systems. MIT researchers have developed a scalable fabrication process for silicon-photonics chips that are both flexible and transparent.

The first battery emerged from an 18th-century scientific disagreement over twitching frog legs. Italian physician Luigi Galvani spent decades investigating why the muscles of dissected frogs contracted when exposed to electricity. He concluded that animals contained an innate electrical force, which he called animal electricity, tells IEEE Spectrum. Physicist Alessandro Volta initially agreed but changed his mind after conducting his own experiments.

Harvard and University of Tokyo researchers use simple geometric rules to design expandable lattices that could inspire compact products and deployable structures. Researchers from Harvard University and the University of Tokyo have developed a computational method for designing complex 3D structures that can expand, collapse, and change shape through networks of rods and scissor-like joints.