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OpenStack Hibiscus Strengthens Trusted Infrastructure for the AI Era OpenStack 2026.2 (Hibiscus), the latest OpenStack release, advances confidential computing and security while expanding support for accelerated, high-performance workloads and improving infrastructure efficiency at scale. SAN FRANCISCO, Oct. 1, 2026 — The OpenStack community has announced the release of OpenStack 2026.2 (Hibiscus), the 34th release of the world’s most widely deployed open source cloud infrastructure software.

Volantis Raises $88M Series A to Advance Photonic Memory Architecture New photonic architecture will power AI inference for models exceeding 20 trillion parameters at up to 10,000 tokens per second per user ,  — Volantis, a semiconductor company building a new category of AI inference system, today announced an $88 million Series A co-led by Lachy Groom and Abstract Ventures, with participation from John Doerr, VXI Capital, Triatomic and Susa Ventures.

SDSC Helps Improve AI-Ready Geospatial Data Through GeoCroissant Oct. 1, 2026 — Researchers working with Earth science data often face a basic but time-consuming challenge: Determining what datasets exist, what they contain and whether they can be used together. Doug Fils, with the University of California San Diego Halıcıoğlu School of Data Science and Computing’s San Diego Supercomputer Center (SDSC), is helping advance a metadata approach intended to make that process easier.

Q/C Technologies Collaborates with Sandia on Optical Computing for AI Inference Collaboration advances Q/C Technologies’ optical processing unit initiative for AI inference through nanophotonics research at Sandia’s Center for Integrated Nanotechnologies SAN FRANCISCO, Oct.

Alice & Bob Demonstrates New Approach to Stabilizing Cat Qubits with DC Voltage Bias PARIS, Oct. 1, 2026 — Alice & Bob, a leader in fault-tolerant quantum computing, and the École Normale Supérieure de Lyon have announced a new and faster approach to stabilizing cat-qubits in superconducting quantum systems enabling more compact designs that generate less heat.

Oct. 1, 2026 — HPSF is excited to welcome ClusterShell to the Foundation. ClusterShell is an event-driven, open source Python library designed to run local or remote commands in parallel on server farms and large Linux clusters, together with a set of command-line tools built on top of it. It handles the daily work of HPC cluster administration: operating on groups of nodes, executing distributed commands with optimized algorithms, and gathering and merging output across thousands of nodes.

VDURA V12 Brings the Hyperscaler Storage Playbook to AI Factories by Ali Azhar | October 1, 2026 Neoclouds are spending a fortune on GPUs, and they need to keep those GPUs doing useful work. Storage is a big part of that equation. A lot of that comes down to how quickly the storage system can get data in and out when the GPUs need it. In some AI clusters, storage is already becoming one of the constraints. Hyperscalers have been dealing with similar storage challenges for years.

D-Wave Launches Gate-Model Simulator Beta Program, Advancing Error-Aware Programming Capabilities Leading commercial and research organizations gain early access to technology designed to deliver efficient quantum error correction PALO ALTO, Calif., Oct. 1, 2026 — D-Wave Quantum Inc. today launched its gate-model quantum computing simulator beta program, marking an important milestone in D-Wave’s gate-model development roadmap.

Signaloid Joins CERN openlab’s Heterogeneous Architectures Testbed CAMBRIDGE, England and GENEVA, Oct. 1, 2026 — British computing company Signaloid has joined CERN openlab, the public-private partnership through which CERN evaluates emerging information technologies for scientific computing.

Los Alamos Installs 1st NVIDIA Vera CPU Systems in Darwin Testbed Oct. 1, 2026 — Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) recently received its first NVIDIA Vera CPU systems, installing the components in the Laboratory’s Darwin testbed.