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Juan Pedro TomásIn sum – what to know: OpenAI explores Canada expansion – The company is in talks with government and industry partners about securing local data center capacity to strengthen the country’s AI ecosystem. Part of global AI buildout – Similar to projects in Norway, Germany, and the U.K., OpenAI aims to align infrastructure growth with its “OpenAI for Countries” program. …
Susana SchwartzThe staggering size and circular nature of recent deals raises both hopes and concerns, so keeping track will inform industry and investment decisions about where to go from here. In sum – what to know: Highly concentrated market – The last 30 days has seen a small number of major tech firms making enormous AI infrastructure deals, unprecedented in size …
Evroc’s founder and CEO, Mattias Åström, told RCR Wireless News that the data center initiative aligns with the firm’s mission to drive European digital sovereignty In sum – what to know: Nuclear-powered pilot – Blykalla, evroc, and Studsvik will explore co-locating SMRs and AI infrastructure at Studsvik’s licensed nuclear site in Nyköping. Clean baseload energy – The plan leverages SMR technology to supply …
Michael Dell said his company’s server and networking business surged 58% last year and grew another 69% in the last quarter In sum – what to know: Explosive demand – “tremendous” need for compute power, says Dell, with AI-related server sales set to double in fiscal 2026. Overbuild scenario – “at some point there’ll be too many” data centers, he says also …
Christian de LooperNew Broadcom agreements secure long-term TPU supply and 3.5 gigawatts of future capacity for Anthropic In sum – what we know: The Broadcom-Google-Anthropic love triangle continues. The three companies have announced a number of major new deals, largely focused on Broadcom. Under the first agreement, Broadcom will design and supply Google’s custom Tensor Processing Units through 2031. The second deal …
Cognichip just got $60 million in Series A funding to bring its concept to life In sum – what we know: There’s a ton of hype around AI chips, but what about AI-designed chips. That’s the idea behind Cognichip, which is building what it describes as the first physics-informed AI foundation model for semiconductor design — and it just closed a …
Nvidia’s big Marvell deal will see the two expand the NVLink Fusion platform In sum – what we know: Nvidia’s march into AI data centers continues. The company has announced a $2 billion investment in Marvell, alongside a significantly expanded technical collaboration covering AI infrastructure and next-gen telecom networks. The investment highlights where Nvidia thinks the next bottlenecks in the …
TurboQuant achieves up to 8x speed improvements on modern GPUs without sacrificing model accuracy Google Research has announced TurboQuant, a compression algorithm that could meaningfully change the economics of running large AI models. According to Google’s benchmarks, it shrinks memory usage by at least 6x and delivers up to 8x speed improvements on modern GPUs — with no accuracy loss. If …
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