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Juan Pedro TomásSK Telecom said the collaboration with OpenAI reflects its broader goal of building an “AI infrastructure superhighway” across South Korea In sum – what to know: SK Telecom is scaling national AI hubs – The OpenAI MoU and regional AIDC plan advance its “AI Infrastructure Superhighway,” linking multiple AI data center zones across Korea. Two-tier growth strategy: self-reliance + cooperation …
Catherine Sbeglia NinInside a regional fiber build optimized for AI-era transport demands with LightRiver Gigabit Fiber’s new southwest long-haul build — connecting Dallas, Houston, San Antonio, and Phoenix — may look like another regional transport expansion. But to LightRiver, the engineering partner behind the deployment, the real story is how AI-enabled automation, software-driven optimization, and factory-built integration are reshaping what fiber operators …
As hyperscalers and sovereign cloud providers scale up massive AI clusters, the real point of differentiation is becoming how efficiently those GPUs can communicate, according to Dell’Oro In sum – what to know: AI clusters are outgrowing electrical networks – Explosive GPU growth and rapid port-speed transitions are stressing traditional switching layers and accelerating upgrade cycles across back-end AI fabrics. …
LiquidStack noted that the traditional efficiency metric of choice — the power usage effectiveness ratio — will lose relevance as operators prioritize economic throughput over raw energy savings In sum – what to know: Economic performance will surpass energy efficiency as the key metric – LiquidStack said operators will shift from PUE to “tokens per watt per dollar” as power …
Sean Kinney One stop at a time Author’s note: I’m one of those AuDHD people you encounter in tech, media and tech media. CES and Las Vegas are exhausting, but I wanted to get this written while still having some fun. So, I landed on a format where I write a section, have a drink, take the monorail one stop, then repeat. …
Christian de LooperYou don’t have to own the hardware for AI. But should you? Every organization building with AI eventually has to decide whether to own the hardware or rent it. This isn’t necessarily always a financial calculation. It touches data security, talent pipelines, hardware obsolescence, and the fundamentally unpredictable nature of AI workloads. A startup spinning up its first large language …
Will open-source chips democratize the industry? In the early 1990s, a Finnish student named Linus Torvalds released a free operating system kernel called Linux. This new operating system, together with projects like Apache, proved that collaborative, open-source development could produce software that competes with and surpasses propriety alternatives. These days, Linux runs on everything from smartphones to supercomputers, and open-source …
Non-exclusive agreement transfers key talent and technology while Groq remains independent In sum – what we know: Nvidia and chip startup Groq have announced a non-exclusive licensing agreement reportedly worth around $20 billion. The announcement turned heads immediately — not just because of the price tag, which clocks in at nearly three times Groq’s $6.9 billion valuation from just months earlier, but …
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