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Summary of Week 52 – December 22-26, 2025

Featuring the top 5 stories, plus 5 more you won't want to miss

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Crusoe Raised $1.375 Billion at $10+ Billion Valuation

To power the future of AI infrastructure

Flow Capital Announces $3.0 Million Follow-On Investment in Congruity 360

The company raised a total of $36 million

Alphabet Announces Agreement to Acquire Intersect to Advance U.S. Energy Innovation

To continue its quest to be energy self independent

Snowflake in Talk to Acquire Observe

To add observability ot its portfolio | by Philippe Nicolas

Aleria Partners with Nvidia to Accelerate the UAE’s Sovereign AI and Cloud Transformation

Alliance Drives UAE's Sovereign AI Ambitions

Kioxia Collaborates with Linus Media Group for In-depth Flash Memory Fab Video

Linus Tech Tips video provides behind the scenes look at Kioxia’s Yokkaichi Fab production of BiCS FLASH 3D flash memory and SSDs

MinisForum Unveils AI Mini Workstation MS-S1 MAX and AI NAS N5 Pro with AMD Processors

$2,639.90 for MS-S1 Max with AMD Ryzen AI Max+ 395 CPU (16 cores, 32 threads) and Radeon 8060s GPU, and $1,019 for AI NAS N5 Pro powered by AMD Ryzen AI 9 HX Pro 370 (12 cores, up to 5.1GHz) and up to 80 TOPS neural processing power

Azure Storage innovations: Unlocking the future of data

With several key new features | by Philippe Nicolas

Extending the Unified Data Plane: Pure Storage Cloud Azure Native is Generally Available

Fully managed block volume as a service delivering Pure Storage enterprise-grade storage to Microsoft Azure | by Philippe Nicolas

Keepit and Ingram Micro Form Strategic Relationship in Poland

Ingram Micro will support marketing, distribution, and technical enablement of Keepit’s backup and recovery solutions in Poland

HYCU Sets New G2 Milestone with 62 Badges and Recognition Across 136 Reports in Winter 2026

Company earns highest-ever number of badges and expands leadership across key backup and DR categories

R&D: Seven Articles on CXL Technologies and Solutions

Guidelines for building indexes on partially cache-coherent CXL shared memory, Beluga, CXL-based memory architecture for scalable and efficient LLM KVCache management, FPGA-based distributed shared memory architecture supporting CXL 2.0+ specification, Sangam, chiplet-based DRAM-PIM accelerator with CXL integration for LLM inferencing, pushing memory bandwidth wall with CXL-enabled idle I/O bandwidth harvesting