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Juan Pedro TomásLisa Su, AMD chair and CEO, said that a recent partnership with OpenAI will significantly accelerate the firm’s data center AI business In sum – what to know: Data center revenue surges 22% – AMD’s data center segment hit $4.3 billion in Q3, driven by strong demand for 5th Gen EPYC CPUs and Instinct MI350 GPUs. OpenAI deal cements AI …
James BlackmanThe UK’s ambitions for a sovereign AI ecosystem are accelerating as Dutch AI infrastructure firm Nebius launches its first UK deployment and private investors pledge billions. Projects from Nscale, CoreWeave, and AI Pathfinder, aligned with government strategies signal a convergence of public policy and private-sector build-out. In sum – what to know: Nebius launch – new London-based Nebius facility, powered …
The Industrial AI Cloud, powered by up to 10,000 Nvidia GPUs, will allow manufacturers, automakers, and robotics firms to deploy AI-driven digital twins, predictive maintenance, and large-scale simulation workloads In sum – what to know: Europe’s first Industrial AI Cloud debuts – Deutsche Telekom and Nvidia launch a sovereign, enterprise-grade platform to power AI innovation across German industries. Massive compute …
With electricity capacity set to rise 30% this year and $70 billion in planned investments for 2026, China is building AI infrastructure at scale. Enterprise AI services and domestic chip initiatives are driving the next wave of growth, positioning China as a major global AI infrastructure hub – even as it plays catch-up with the US. In sum – what to …
Christian de LooperQualcomm apparently wants to be the next major ASIC builder In sum – what we know: Qualcomm has reportedly agreed to supply ByteDance with millions of custom AI chips for data center workloads, according to a Bloomberg report citing people familiar with the matter. It’s a deal that, if it plays out as described, would mark one of Qualcomm’s first genuine large-scale …
AMD’s 256-core flagship targets agentic AI workloads In sum – what we know: AMD has moved its 6th Gen EPYC “Venice” server CPUs into volume production, marking the transition from engineering samples and pilot runs into scaled manufacturing at TSMC’s 2nm fabs in Taiwan. The chips are built on AMD’s Zen 6 core architecture and TSMC’s N2 2nm-class node, with commercial …
The new Google-Blackstone-powered provider targets 500 MW of capacity by 2027 In sum – what we know: Google and private equity giant Blackstone are teaming up to build a U.S.-based AI cloud provider built around Google’s custom Tensor Processing Units. The new joint venture will sell data center capacity, networking, operations, and TPU compute as a bundled service — effectively a turnkey …
Blaize 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, …
Telecom operators must rethink workforce training as networks and customer expectations evolve. Immersive, AI-driven roleplay and realistic practice environments can improve retention, strengthen customer-facing skills, and prepare distributed teams to …
As India accelerates its digital transformation, resilient, intelligent connectivity is becoming essential for global enterprises seeking to scale operations, ensure business continuity, and unlock opportunities across the country’s fast-growing AI, …
The company’s AI Data Center GPU Cloud is intended for customers facing restrictions on transferring data overseas and those seeking infrastructure optimized specifically for the Japanese market In sum – …
Panelists say defense networks must assume day-one attack and lean on civilian infrastructure to stay up The definition of resilience in defense communications is shifting, and so is the way …
