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Juan Pedro TomásAccording to Sean Hughes, business development manager at Wärtsilä Energy, developers are increasingly turning to onsite generation systems that can be deployed independently of utility interconnection timelines In sum – what to know: Grid constraints – Wärtsilä said grid interconnection delays are accelerating demand for behind-the-meter and off-grid power solutions in the U.S. data center market. AI demand growth – …
Susana SchwartzThe executive order serves as a worker-protection counterweight to what’s perceived as federal AI industry-first protections. In sum – what to know: Just as the Trump administration scrapped plans today for an executive order to vet powerful new AI models before they are released publicly, Governor Newsom issued executive order N-6-26 – a potential counterweight to what the public increasingly …
Sulagna Saha Ultra-dense GPU racks are pushing power, cooling, and engineering demands beyond the limits of many existing facilities, raising questions about the viability of modular designs Within data centers, a significant shift is happening at the rack level. AI workloads are pushing rack densities to unforeseen levels and some of the core assumptions behind modular and reconfigurable data center designs are …
Alibaba’s semiconductor subsidiary T-Head introduced the Zhenwu M890 AI processor, which the company said delivers three times the performance of its previous-generation chip In sum – what to know: New AI model – Alibaba launched the Qwen3.7-Max model for agentic AI workloads, including coding, reasoning and long-duration autonomous task execution involving extensive tool usage. Infrastructure expansion – Alibaba Cloud introduced …
Christian de LooperBlaize and Winmate want to bring secure, real-time decision-making to defense and critical infrastructure without cloud reliance In sum – what we know: Edge AI is quickly becoming one of the most contested fronts in the broader AI infrastructure race, and this week brought another notable tie-up. Blaize Holdings and Winmate have announced an updated agreement to jointly develop sovereign, …
The potential agreement would mark a shift in how Anthropic sources specialized silicon for its models In sum – what we know: Anthropic is in early-stage talks to buy inference accelerators from Fractile, a London-based chip startup, according to reporting from The Information. It’s a small deal on the surface, but there might be a little more to it. Anthropic …
Operators are rapidly shifting from traditional air cooling to advanced liquid-to-air distribution systems Data centers are going through a massive shift. Facilities that used to measure capacity in megawatts are now pushing toward gigawatt territory, driven by the relentless compute demands of AI training, inference workloads, and cloud expansion. The result? More servers, but also a whole lot more heat. …
Verkor autonomously generated a layout-ready RISC-V core from a short requirements document In sum – what we know: Chip design startup Verkor.io has made a pretty bold claim — that its agentic AI system, called Design Conductor, has autonomously designed a complete RISC-V CPU core in 12 hours flat. The design started from a 219-word requirements document, and the system …
The U.S. broadband duopoly of cable and telcos is fading as fixed wireless, Starlink, WISPs, and fiber overbuilders expand rapidly. Increased competition from carriers and alternative providers is giving consumers …
The GSMA and CTIA have misrepresented early 6GHz Wi-Fi adoption data to justify reallocating spectrum for mobile use, arguing the technology remains in a normal growth phase with significant long-term …
Defense communications has entered a new phase of urgency. Networks are no longer just the pipes that move information across the battlespace; they are becoming the sensing, compute, coordination and …
Germany’s sovereign cloud push is advancing with Deutsche Telekom and SAP winning a BMDS AI platform tender built on the “Deutschland-Stack”, while Thales expands its Google Cloud-powered sovereign model in …
Sulagna Saha In a two-part series, RCR pulls back the curtain on how test and measurement vendors are using AI within their business and product lines With telcos bringing AI to the mainstream, and adoption picking up in all parts of the network, it is timely to look at how test and measurement vendors that are usually on the other side of …
Sulagna Saha The commission announced that it will vote on a new rule at the end of this month that will exclude all Chinese test labs from reviewing and certifying electronic devices sold in the United States The Federal Communications Commission’s (FCC) crackdown on Chinese entities continues, as the commission announced last week that it is now moving to bar all Chinese …
Sulagna Saha Test and measurement companies are adapting their test playbooks, slotting in AI at the most strategic points As every large company rallies behind the single, ambitious goal of integrating AI in every corner of their business, and supporting industries follow suit, a question that is occupying everybody’s mind is how are companies actually implementing AI — and more importantly, what …
Sulagna Saha These fiber testing methods play a distinct role in detecting faults, measuring signal loss, and ensuring integrity of optical networks An optical fiber rarely draws attention or curiosity from people. Yet this unassuming piece of technology forms the super-highway that brings the internet to us every minute of every day. Encased inside protective tubes of varying thickness, otherwise called cables, …
