Dassault Systèmes and NVIDIA to Build Industrial AI Platform for Virtual Twins

HOUSTON — Feb. 3, 2026 — Dassault Systèmes (Euronext Paris: FR0014003TT8, DSY.PA) and NVIDIA today announced a partnership for a shared industrial architecture for artificial intelligence across industries. Combining Dassault Systèmes’ Virtual Twin technologies with NVIDIA AI infrastructure, open models and accelerated software libraries will establish science-validated industry World Models, and new ways of working through skilled virtual companions […]

HPC News Bytes 20260202: Microsoft’s Inference Chip, H200 (Not H20) GPUs for China, Mega AI Data Center Deals

A happy month of February to you! The big players have dominated the HPC-AI news front of late, here’s a fast (8:44) recap of recent developments, including: Microsoft Maia 200 chip for AI inference, Nvidia H200 (not H20) ….

Report: AI Scale Pushing Enterprise Infrastructure toward Failure

NEW YORK, Jan. 29, 2026 — Cockroach Labs, a cloud-agnostic distributed SQL databases with CockroachDB, today announced findings from its second annual survey, “The State of AI Infrastructure 2026: Can Systems Withstand AI Scale?” The report reveals a growing concern that AI use is starting to overwhelm the traditional IT systems meant to support it. As […]

Argonne Partners with RIKEN, Fujitsu and NVIDIA on AI for Science and HPC

Argonne National Laboratory has entered into a partnership with RIKEN, Fujitsu Limited and NVIDIA to advance artificial intelligence and high performance computing to accelerate scientific discovery. The agreement, based on ….

Qilimanaro Launches DIY Quantum Hardware-Software Kit

Barcelona, Spain, January 29, 2026 — Qilimanjaro Quantum Tech today announced the release of EduQit, a modular quantum computing kit designed to enable hands-on training, experimental learning, and early-stage research using an on-site superconducting quantum computing system. EduQit enables universities and research institutions to work directly with a physical quantum computing system. This provides hand-on […]

UK Invests £36M in AMD-Powered Supercomputer at the Univ. of Cambridge

The UK government announced it has injected £36 million to increase the power of one of the UK’s leading supercomputing centres sixfold. This includes backing a new National Computational Resource supercomputer ….

Florida Atlantic Univ. in $20M Deal for D-Wave Advantage2 Quantum Computer

PALO ALTO, Calif. & Boca Raton, Florida – January 27, 2026 – D-Wave Quantum Inc. (NYSE: QBTS), a dual-platform quantum computing company, today announced that Florida Atlantic University (FAU) has signed an agreement to purchase an Advantage2 annealing quantum computer at its Boca Raton campus. The agreement represents a $20 million commitment from FAU, aiming to […]

D-Wave Announces $10M Quantum Deal with Fortune 100 Company

PALO ALTO, Calif. – January 27, 2026 – D-Wave Quantum Inc. (NYSE: QBTS), a dual-platform quantum computing company, today announced a $10 million, two-year enterprise quantum computing as a service (QCaaS) agreement with a leading Fortune 100 company. Under the agreement, the companies plan to collaborate to develop and deploy several quantum-powered applications. “This agreement marks a […]

C12 and Classiq Partner on Spin Qubit Quantum Computing

PARIS and TEL AVIV, January 27, 2026 –  C12, a European deep-tech company building spin qubit quantum processors, and Classiq, a software platform for enterprise-grade quantum computing development, today announced a strategic integration partnership. This collaboration is intended to bridge the gap between scalable quantum hardware and scalable quantum software, accelerating enterprise and research access to quantum computing. […]

Abbas Nikroo of Livermore’s National Ignition Facility Wins FPA Distinguished Career Award

Abbas Nikroo, deputy director for physics integration at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory’s National Ignition Facility (NIF), has received the 2025 Distinguished Career Award by Fusion Power Associates.