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Juan Pedro TomásGroq currently operates data centers across the U.S., Canada, Europe, and the Middle East, with new sites planned in Asia In sum – what to know: Post-2025 expansion – Groq plans to exceed its 2025 buildout of 12 data centers, with new sites coming online across Asia and other regions next year. Surging AI demand – Chairman Jonathan Ross said …
The acquisition would extend BlackRock’s AI-linked portfolio just a year after acquiring GIP for $12.5 billion In sum – what to know: BlackRock eyes $40B acquisition – GIP is nearing a deal to buy Aligned Data Centers, which operates 78 facilities in the Americas, in one of the year’s largest infrastructure transactions. AI demand drives M&A – The planned purchase …
Fujitsu and Nvidia will co-develop an AI agent platform focused on sectors such as healthcare, manufacturing, and robotics In sum – what to know: AI collaboration – the partnership will deliver sector-specific AI agents and computing infrastructure built on Monaka CPUs, Nvidia GPUs, and NVLink Fusion interconnect. Industry apps – a joint AI platform will target manufacturing, healthcare, and robotics, with agents …
In May, the UAE committed to make investments in the U.S. in return for access to several hundred thousand Nvidia AI chips on an annual basis In sum – what to know: Chip deal stalled – a multibillion-dollar agreement between Nvidia and the UAE government for AI chip exports remains frozen nearly five months after its announcement. Commerce approval – the US …
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 …
