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Researchers at Zhejiang University have shown in a preprint called Bit2Watt that a cloud tenant could destabilize a power grid by rapidly cycling a rented GPU's power draw more than 6,000 times per se…

Former Microsoft AI executives are betting $1 million that an AI system can replace a human CEO entirely, founding Skyfall AI to acquire a small B2B SaaS or e-commerce company and hand over all execut…

Microsoft has agreed to fund a multibillion-dollar expansion of Mistral AI's European compute infrastructure, adding thousands of NVIDIA Vera Rubin chips to Mistral's capacity while stopping short of …

Microsoft is committing billions more to Mistral's European GPU buildout under an expanded partnership that gives the French AI lab access to thousands of Nvidia's newest Vera Rubin GPUs for training …

A Windows identifier called the GDID (Global Device ID) persists even when a VPN is used, and Microsoft hands it over to authorities upon request, according to a technical investigation. The 64-bit PU…

Microsoft and Mistral expanded their partnership on July 21 with a multibillion-dollar Microsoft commitment to use part of Mistral's growing European GPU infrastructure, which will include thousands o…

Microsoft released agent-framework, an open-source framework for building and deploying AI agents and multi-agent workflows in Python and .NET, with support for Microsoft Foundry, Azure OpenAI, OpenAI…

AI infrastructure company IREN has signed $2.8 billion in new multi-year AI cloud contracts, raising its year-end AI cloud annualized run-rate revenue target from $3.7 billion to more than $4 billion.…

Alphabet plans to spend between $175 billion and $185 billion on capital expenditures in 2026, more than double last year, with the vast majority directed toward AI compute capacity, data centers, and…

Micron Technology reported fiscal third-quarter revenue of $41.5 billion, nearly quadrupling from $9.3 billion a year earlier, driven by record demand for high-bandwidth memory chips used in AI data c…

Microsoft will deploy AMD's Helios rackscale solution to power model inference and Azure AI services, part of an expanded partnership spanning GPUs, CPUs, networking, and software. The double-wide Hel…

AMD launched Helios, its first complete open rackscale AI infrastructure system integrating Instinct GPUs, EPYC CPUs, Pensando networking, and ROCm software, marking its biggest push yet to challenge …

Alphabet will report Q2 earnings on Wednesday as investors assess AI monetization, with expected EPS of $2.95 on revenue of $116.98 billion. Google Cloud Platform revenue is projected to hit $22.4 bil…

IREN Limited reported that demand for its GPU cloud services now exceeds supply, with contracts pricing above $15 million per megawatt. The company, formerly known as Iris Energy, has secured a multi-…

KPMG has been named an Elite Partner in OpenAI's newly launched Partner Network, a tiered certification program backed by $150 million in investment. The designation allows KPMG to market AI-native wo…

A consortium including BlackRock's Global Infrastructure Partners, MGX, and the Artificial Intelligence Infrastructure Partnership is acquiring Aligned Data Centers for approximately $40 billion, the …

A new analysis by The Verge examines the energy consumption of GPUs across gaming, smartphones, and AI data centers, questioning the moral and political dimensions of their power use. The report highl…

Startup Accelsius claims its two-phase cooling fluids can reduce datacenter operating costs by allowing facility water temperatures up to 54°C (or 59°C with doubled flow rate), with every 1°C increase…

Australia should build its own small language models (SLMs) to gain a sovereign competitive advantage, argues a senior technology executive, citing a case where a tourism and cruise business cut opera…

Anthropic released Claude Opus 4.8 with improved benchmark scores and Dynamic Workflows for multi-agent tasks, while Microsoft unveiled the always-on Scout assistant and new MAI models including MAI T…