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Foxconn details quantum ambitions, wants to become world’s “largest quantum computer manufacturer”
However, technology not expected to be viable for at least two years, company said
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Canada joins EuroHPC JU initiative
Becomes the program’s 39th participating state
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Megaspeed exec with close ties to Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang suspected of spying for China
Nvidia and the Chinese Embassy reject claims of targeted spying
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SpaceXAI launching two additional data center campuses in Mississippi to further expand Colossus 2
Sites, dubbed Gun Range and Spam, will both be operational by end of the year, Musk claimed
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OpenAI CEO Sam Altman meets with Samsung execs as memory chip shortage deepens
Follows comments made by Altman on a podcast about underutilization of DRAM in desktop computers
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Google's Project Suncatcher runs first workload on orbital TPU, but company admits space data centers cost 100x more than terrestrial
AI poetry proves the system works, but finances remain unclear
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FuriosaAI raises $620m at a post-money valuation of approximately $2.9bn
South Korean chip startup said funds will help accelerate development of its third-generation AI inference chip
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SpiNNcloud rebrands to Sparxity, announces cluster deployment at Jülich center in Germany
Company said rebrand reflects its vision to “only compute what matters”
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Intel says Israel fab explosion will cost company $600m in losses, as Q3 ‘26 revenue hits $16.5bn
Intel Foundry operating losses down QoQ, with chipmaker claiming 14A customer announcements are coming soon
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Lightmatter's lead ASIC engineer Clifford Chao joins OpenAI as silicon lead
Also worked at Google on TPUs
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NTT expands AI data center footprint with Paris and Singapore deployments
Brings company’s AI factory total to four sites across North America, Europe, Asia-Pacific, and the Middle East
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Akamai launches AI inference service
Company adds new GPUs to cloud fleet, targets next year for Vera Rubin hardware
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Cerebras chips have shorter lifespans than statements suggest, short-seller report claims
Culper research claims the lifespan “undermines the entire business”
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Bull signs MoU with Czech telco České Radiokomunikace for AI Gigafactory
The agreement also aims to strengthen AI adoption and infrastructure in Central and Eastern Europe
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Extreme Networks fined for channeling networking equipment to Russian missile contractor
Extreme trouble for networking firm after inadvertent sanctions breach
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Blockchain and crypto firm Blockmate Ventures enters neocloud market with purchase of Nvidia B200 cluster
Company has partnered with Scannit for the venture, with the latter to host the hardware in an undisclosed data center
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NIP Group agrees $27.3m Bitcoin mining hardware deal
E-sports company continues to expand Bitcoin mining efforts
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Nvidia Vera Rubin and Vera CPUs now generally available on Oracle
And other AI hardware deployments soon to arrive
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Oracle will offer Google’s TPU AI chips via OCI in multi-gigawatt deployment
Will be the first hyperscaler to offer Google’s TPU outside of Google
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Broadcom organizes $63bn deal with Bank of America, Blackstone, Citigroup, and Morgan Stanley to fund Anthropic chip purchases
Project North Star will finance the purchase of Broadcom-developed Google TPUs
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Crypto exchange Binance to close Bitcoin mining pool next month
Company tells customers to pool mining capacity elsewhere
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Nvidia to invest $3bn in Meta’s $97.5bn equity offering, as social media giant plans to deploy more Nvidia hardware
Agreement centers around Meta’s Muse AI agents
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Cadence unveils Nvidia-powered AI data center in Munich, Germany
Facility will support electronic design automation (EDA), simulation, and offer sovereign AI cloud services
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Generative Bionics plans AI data center and humanoid robotics factory in Italy
Could form first part of physical AI factory network
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Bull awarded €40m to deliver HLRE-5 supercomputer to the German Climate Computing Center
System will be powered by Nvidia GB200 Superchips and Vera CPUs
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Banned Nvidia GPUs spotted powering telecom, cloud workloads in China: report
B300s and RTX gaming cards uncovered via exposed endpoints
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Quandela and Quanova partner for deployment of first quantum computer in Vietnam
The system will serve as the foundation of university’s quantum-RISE program
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Daedalus supercomputer inaugurated in Greece
85 petaflops system features Nvidia H200s, housed in a repurposed building