Infrastructure

Why AI hasn’t replaced software engineers, and won’t Arvind Narayanan and Sayash Kappor take on the question of AI job losses through the lens of a profession that is uniquely suited to AI disruption - software engineering.

Kazakhstan signed accords with the startup Firebird Inc. on computing projects involving Nvidia Corp. that could bring as much as $10 billion in investment, as the Central Asian energy producer looks to position itself as an artificial intelligence hub.

A steel buoy shaped like a giant lollipop is about to float out into the North Pacific with no anchor and no cable, generate its own power from the waves, and run AI chips on board, talking to shore through nothing but Starlink Autonocion.com

Investment fund "moving aggressively on AI".

AI cryptomining network's 320,000 RTX 3090-class GPUs allegedly burn 112 megawatts of power on ‘zero useful AI computation’. GPU rental costs jump 38%, but Pearl’s cards are doing random matrix math, study claims Tom's Hardware

MetaX's shares surged 564% since its Shanghai IPO, valuing the company at about $41 billion.

Government announces plans to invest billions, but questions linger over how its proposals on chips, social media and more will work Ownership of the commanding heights of the AI economy is a political talking point around the world, as countries seek to assert some control of a technology…

NVIDIA Blackwell Leads on First Agentic AI Infrastructure Benchmark NVIDIA Blog

Saudi Arabia and the UAE are funding America's AI boom. and getting data centers in return.

China just put $226 million into an undersea data center near Shanghai, and the detail that matters is that ocean cooling and clean power are being used to cut land and water use as AI demand explodes ECOticias.com

Mistral AI plans a data center near Paris with 13,800 Nvidia GPUs and 44 MW capacity.

Bluechip Technologies announced the acquisition of YarnGPT, an AI text-to-speech model, at the Bluechip Data and AI Summit on Wednesday, as Africa's tech leaders gathered to define the continent's role in the AI future.

China bets $295 billion on AI backbone as US data center boom accelerates

Extremely powerful large language models (LLMs) still operate as though they’re typing on a keyboard, processing workloads in a simple left-to-right fashion.

Deep Research now lives inside Perplexity Computer, breaking hard questions into subtasks and routing across 20+ frontier models. The post Perplexity Moves Deep Research Into Computer, Routing Research Subtasks Across 20+ Frontier Models For Reports, Decks, And Dashboards appeared first on…

OpenAI has banned China-linked accounts that used ChatGPT to draft social media influence campaigns targeting U.S. debates over tariffs and AI data centers, the company said Wednesday.

IBM CEO Arvind Krishna discusses IBM's significant $10 billion investment in quantum computing, a faster form of AI. Krishna also noted a $1 billion federal government commitment to build a chip fabrication facility in Albany, New York, illustrating a strong collaboration between public and private…

Sensitive data can stay off the cloud as Custodia's Sentinel gives executives and researchers a local AI appliance for private document analysis.

Meta signs first AI data center deal in India with Reliance TechCrunch

KKR Launches $10 Billion AI Infrastructure Company With Nvidia, Vistra WSJ

Funding from investors including Nvidia, Amazon and Qualcomm will support the vendor’s development of humanoid robots and physical AI.

Humaniod robotics company raises up to $1.4 billion from Nvidia, Amazon and others CNBC

There’s a downside to too much convenience: it harms our bodies There is a seductive fantasy being floated by AI executives that all the efficiency their products will bring us will lead to humans finally returning to their essential, best selves.

Rising enterprise spending on AI helped push Genesys Cloud annual recurring revenue to USD $2.8 billion, with international sales nearing 45%.

Investment in chipmaking tools hit a record USD $36.55 billion in the first quarter as AI demand kept factories expanding.