Last Week

It was a short but busy week of NexusTek professional services updates, a digital transformation in horticulture discussion with Griffin Greenhouse Supplies, and a Tech Field Day Podcast on Agentic AI too.

NexusTek Refreshes Professional Services Offerings to Meet Emerging Customer Challenges

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When Everything Everywhere Changes All at Once: Professional Services for the New IT Reality

Explore how NexusTek’s Professional Services help organizations navigate today’s fast-changing IT landscape by simplifying multi-cloud management, accelerating AI adoption, ensuring compliance, and enabling secure, innovative work environments.

Professional Services | NexusTek

NexusTek Professional Services help organizations tackle AI integration, compliance, multi-cloud cost management, and workforce security. Our outcome-driven IT solutions accelerate digital transformation, innovation, and business resilience.

Digital Transformation in Horticulture

Episode 8 of Winners Circle spotlights Griffin Greenhouse Supplies, a 75-year-old family-run leader in horticulture distribution. Discover how Griffin partnered with NexusTek to harness AI and automation—cutting 80 hours of manual processes down to just minutes. With sharper forecasting, stronger customer service, and a commitment to sustainable growth, Griffin shows how tradition and innovation can flourish together.

This Week

I'll be traveling this week but hope to get some more automation refinements put in place.

📈 Markets Monday for 2025-09-01

Labor Day meant US markets were closed. The quiet allowed me to to ponder pre-market news coverage. Notably, three articles caught my attention in reference to China verticalization (aka vertical integration) and the lack of AI value chain connections to NVIDIA, H20 or otherwise.

Techmeme: Tencent open sources translation models Hunyuan-MT-7B and Hunyuan-MT-Chimera-7B, which support 33 languages, claiming they beat established models in benchmarks (Jonathan Kemper/The Decoder)

By Jonathan Kemper / The Decoder. View the full context on Techmeme.

Techmeme: Alibaba's shares jumped 19% in Hong Kong on Monday, following strong quarterly results from its cloud computing unit and reports of its new AI chip on Friday (Arjun Kharpal/CNBC)

By Arjun Kharpal / CNBC. View the full context on Techmeme.

Techmeme: A profile of Chinese AI chip designer Cambricon, whose share price has doubled since the start of August, supported by Beijing's push for tech self-sufficiency (Financial Times)

From Financial Times. View the full context on Techmeme.

🔥 Hot Takes Tuesday for 2025-09-02

First funding… and then something fun.

Funding

💰 + 🤖 + 🍪 + ⚛️ Funding flows for AI, electronics, and quantum companies.

• Kite (Agentic AI web infrastructure): $18M
• Aurasell (AI sales automation): $30M
• OpenLight (silicon photonic chips): $34M
• Phasecraft (quantum computing algorithms): $34M
• Paragraf (graphene electronics): $55M
• LayerX (AI back-office automation): $100M
• Anthropic (AI platform company): $13B

Fun

Does Agentic AI spell the end of dial twiddlers?

🤪 Wacky Wednesday for 2025-09-03

This isn't a new video but I missed it somehow.

🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘

🔙 Throwback Thursday for 2025-09-04

It's time for a look at quantum computing again through the lens of Quantinuum.

2025

Techmeme: Honeywell's Quantinuum raised $600M from Quanta, Nvidia's NVentures, and others at a $10B pre-money valuation, up from $5B after raising $300M in January 2024 (Bloomberg)

From Bloomberg. View the full context on Techmeme.

2021

Techmeme: Honeywell merges its quantum computing business with Cambridge Quantum to form a new joint venture; Honeywell will hold a majority stake and invest $270M-$300M (Frederic Lardinois/TechCrunch)

By Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch. View the full context on Techmeme.

Techmeme: Quantinuum, recently spun off from Honeywell, offers the first product created solely by a quantum computer, encryption keys that it claims can't be predicted (Thomas Black/Bloomberg)

By Thomas Black / Bloomberg. View the full context on Techmeme.

2020

Techmeme: Honeywell unveils Model H1, a quantum computer with 10 qubits reaching a quantum volume of 128, offered along with a subscription service for usage (Frederic Lardinois/TechCrunch)

By Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch. View the full context on Techmeme.

Surprise contender Honeywell enters the quantum computing race | New Scientist

Honeywell has big plans for its trapped ion quantum computer A company that used to make home thermostats is now building a quantum computer . Honeywell, which is known for making control systems for homes, businesses and planes, says it has big plans for the quantum future. “You would have never suspected Honeywell was doing …

2019

Experience quantum impact with Azure Quantum - Microsoft

Today, we’re introducing our next step in delivering quantum impact: Azure Quantum.

✅ Final Thoughts Friday for 2025-09-05

The biggest story of the week is the advances in the crossover of art and science that will become increasingly democratized. Brave. New. World.

Techmeme: How Synthesia is combining AI voice and video models to improve avatar realism with natural gestures and accent, intonation, and expressiveness preservation (Rhiannon Williams/MIT Technology Review)

By Rhiannon Williams / MIT Technology Review. View the full context on Techmeme.

There is a nostalgia meme that compares early computer graphics in popular games to their modern equivalent. So, imagine today's Synthesia in a decade becoming the equivalent of a classic 1980s arcade game or early CGI in movies.

The implications of deepfake shifting from simulacrum to artifice to imperceptible is going to compound. Or, perhaps, in-person interviews and in-person certification examination will remain the standard for trust and non-repudiation.

Or...

🔮 Sneak Peak Saturday for 2025-09-06

Sometimes, $600B just comes out in polite conversation. Twice?

Techmeme: At the White House dinner on Thursday night, Big Tech executives put on an uncanny display of fealty to Donald Trump by taking turns praising his leadership (Brian Barrett/Wired)

By Brian Barrett / Wired. View the full context on Techmeme.

Of course, one of the $600B by 2028 is hard to fathom considering the most recent number for 2025 is only $65B per Meta.

Techmeme: Jensen Huang says Nvidia has not been approached about purchasing a stake in Intel, following a report about a consortium with TSMC to operate Intel's factories (Reuters)

From Reuters. View the full context on Techmeme.

What could $600B mean? Well, what if it applied to:

• Selection of strategic global locations
  • US Southwest, Northeast, and Central
  • Sweden
  • Australia
• Commitment to 3 year "get to green' AI data center designs
  • strategic land purchases for thousands of acres
  • state and regional vPPA negotiations with investments
• Construction of data centers optimized for AI workloads
  • procurement of best-in-class AI infrastructure
  • construction of solar power generation sites
  • construction of power-storage facilities
  • commissioning SMR power infrastructure designs
• Consumption of AI infrastructure
  • procurement of best-in-class AI infrastructure
  • evolving with the latest generation of AI chips
  • begin transition to custom silicon AI chips
  • begin addition of quantum computing
• Give excess power back to the grid by 2030
  • convert to 100% solar and SMR
  • fully transition to custom silicon AI chips
  • fully transition to custom silicon and quantum computing

This would be the equivalent of a cookie-cutter approach to building multiple sites with a Topaz Solar Farm, dual SMRs, and enough vPPA to keep an AI-first design data center footprint humming along. Also, by adding to and evolving the latest generation of AI chips with an eye towards the quantum computing future, it could easily use up $600B (or more) in less than 3 years.

Oh, and just by setting aside even ~$30B might enable some of that AI compute to be flying over our heads one day.

#OpenToWork Weekly

I participated in a #NeverSearchAlone #JSC after rebooting Cuthrell Consulting and joining NexusTek.

I added those #OpenToWork from my LinkedIn network to this newsletter. Over time, we've grown an Alumni 🎉 section for those that transitioned to their next career adventure.

Alumni 🎉

• Congrats Sam Aiello 🎉
• Congrats Nathan Clyker 🎉
• Congrats Kelly Britt 🎉
• Congrats Tamera Rousseau King 🎉
• Congrats Thomas Chatham 🎉
• Congrats Dan Kelleher 🎉
• Congrats Jarrod Weise 🎉
• Congrats Karl Edwards 🎉
• Congrats Paul Lysko 🎉
• Congrats Bob Lima, PMP 🎉
• Congrats Rich Green 🎉
• Congrats Sheri Gearhart 🎉
• Congrats Shianna Maxwell 🎉
• Congrats Richard Arnesen! 🎉

Those in my network that are #OpenToWork:

• Scott Place - High Performance Sales Rep
• Trevor Schulz - 20+ Years in Tech Sales | Loyal, Dedicated, and Ready to Work Today
• Brian Booden - Ranked #1 in the UK for Qlik and DataViz Content
• Elizabeth Quintanilla - Fractional CMO, Digital Marketing Consultant & Coach, Marketing Gunslinger
• Barbara Hadley, EdM, SPHR - Strategic HR Leader | Employee Engagement Expert
• Andrew Webber - Proven Leader | Consumer Product Innovation & Scaling
• Lida Tohidi - Award-Winning Product & Marketing Leader | Startup Advisor
• Gina (Gina Minks) Rosenthal - Global Product Marketing Manager | Technical Content Strategist
• Janel Van Beek - Business Strategist & Master Coach | Leadership & Change Expert
• Greg Phillips - Cloud Platform & Strategic Marketing Leader
• Ricardo Perez - Virtualization Architect | PowerFlex & VxRail Specialist
• Mike Berteletti, CISSP - Experienced IT Professional | Infrastructure & Security
• Chris Mojica - Technical Sales & Solutions Architect
• Matthew Leib - Data Center, Cloud & Storage Architect | Technical Writer & Analyst
• Michael Joffe - Global Technology Leader | P&L Management | SaaS & OEM
• Colleen Coll - Event Technology & Digital Media Specialist | Live Reporting