Google’s €5.5B Bet on Germany Marks Its Largest European Investment Yet

Image: Rubaitul Azad/Unsplash Google just dropped a €5.5 billion bet on Europe’s AI future… and it’s all riding on Germany. In its largest European investment to date, the tech giant…

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Rush to Build AI Data Centers Pushes Global Infrastructure to Limits

Image: Adobe Stock The global mad dash to construct the next generation of artificial intelligence (AI) data centers is now creating unprecedented pressure on supply chains and energy infrastructure. According…

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Nvidia Will Contribute $5 Billion to Intel to Build Custom x86 Chips

Source: Nvidia/Intel Nvidia will invest $5 billion in its competitor Intel to further intertwine Nvidia’s AI-boosting chips and Intel’s x86 architecture and CPUs. The companies will work together on several…

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Trump’s UK Visit: OpenAI, Nvidia, and Other US Firms Commit Billions for Data Centers

The global AI data center build-out continues as OpenAI and Nvidia are among the American companies that committed to $42 billion in technology investments in the UK on Sept. 16.…

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Microsoft’s Experimental Optical Computer Could Run AI Workloads With Less Energy

Researchers Jiaqi Chu, Francesca Parmigiani, and James Clegg with the current model of Microsoft Research’s analog optical computer in Cambridge, UK. Image: Chris Welsch for Microsoft A Microsoft Research team…

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