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Broadband

CScale bets AI factories can ride out laser failures at gigawatt scale

The $188 million startup says its integrated optical interconnect can keep gigawatt-scale AI compute running even when individual lasers fail.

Dan Jones Oct 5, 2026 7:54am

rural broadband

Opinion: The fiber is in the yard — The BEAD money isn't

Oct 2, 2026 6:10am

dollar signs

Neocloud Nscale raises $3.36B ahead of IPO

Sep 25, 2026 9:26am

Lightyear

Lightyear launches agentic AI platform for enterprise telecom procurement

Aug 18, 2026 9:00am

Stylized AI image of an advanced networking ASIC on a dark circuit board with glowing blue fiber-optic strands radiating out

Upscale AI's $500M bet to reinvent AI networking

Jul 1, 2026 10:14am

Robot places a glowing brain into a cloud-powered GPU networking platform as streams of investment capital flow into intercon

SDN pioneers return with $15M GPU networking bet

Jun 29, 2026 11:26am