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GPUs, silicon, data centres and the data platforms underneath.

ai infrastructureJun 25, 20264 min

SoftBank Charts European Sovereign AI Push with €75 Billion French Data Center Expansion

SoftBank's €75 billion expansion into French data centers signals a major pivot in AI infrastructure strategy. Discover how this massive investment leverages sovereign AI and grid capacity.

third party risk vendor compromiseJun 23, 20267 min

SoFi Hong Kong Says Data Exposure Unknown After Vendor Database Compromised

SoFi Hong Kong confirms a third-party data breach after unauthorized vendor database access. This article explores how attackers pivoted through an external partner to reach SoFi Securities (Hong Kong) Limited, the unresolved scope of compromised customer data, and practical steps for customers to safeguard their accounts amid rising secondary attack risks.

cyber threat intelligenceJun 21, 20264 min

HTTP/2 Rapid Reset: Protecting Distributed Infrastructure

An overview of the HTTP/2 Rapid Reset vulnerability, its impact on large-scale distributed footprints, and actionable defense strategies for critical sectors like healthcare and telecommunications.

cyber threat intelligenceJun 21, 20265 min

Unraveling the HTTP/2 Rapid Reset: A Threat to Large-Scale Web Infrastructure

This article explores the mechanics of CVE-2023-44487, commonly known as the HTTP/2 Rapid Reset vulnerability, and its severe impact on organizations with extensive, distributed web footprints.

health aiJun 19, 20264 min

NVIDIA and Abridge Team Up to Train AI Model for Clinical Conversations

Tech giant NVIDIA is partnering with AI note-taking startup Abridge to develop a specialized healthcare language model designed for clinical conversations, marking a significant expansion into medical AI.

ai policy ethicsJun 18, 20265 min

Meta Unwinds $2B Manus Deal: Beijing's Divestiture Order Accelerates Separation

Meta has begun dismantling its $2 billion acquisition of Manus AI, completing an operational separation as the most concrete step yet toward complying with a divestiture order Beijing issued roughly two months ago on national security grounds.

ai psychologyJun 18, 20263 min

Large Rewards Accelerate Learning Speed by Extending Brain Signals

Paradigm-shifting neuroscience research reveals that large rewards dramatically speed up learning not through repetition alone but by extending the duration of dopamine signals in the brain's motivation networks.

ai infrastructureJun 18, 20264 min

TensorWave to Use $350 Million Funding to Expand Data Centers with AMD Chips

TensorWave, an AI infrastructure startup positioning itself as an alternative to NVIDIA-focused data centers, has secured $350 million in new funding that will be used to expand its infrastructure with AMD chips.

ai infrastructureJun 18, 20264 min

Google DeepMind releases DiffusionGemma, a model that runs local AI 4x faster

DiffusionGemma represents a paradigm shift in text generation, using diffusion techniques to achieve 4x speed improvements over autoregressive Gemma models while maintaining quality.

roboticsJun 17, 20267 min

OpenAI's Robotics Relaunch: How Data Infrastructure Is Becoming the New Frontier in Physical AI

Two weeks ago, OpenAI announced it would relaunch its robotics program that was shuttered in 2021—a pivotal signal that physical AI is entering a new era. The company's return to robotics highlights a critical truth: while large language models have made rapid progress, physical AI faces a different and more complex challenge: data infrastructure.

edge computingJun 15, 20264 min

Raspberry Pi 5 16GB RAM Expansion: Enabling Local LLMs and Advanced Edge Computing

The Raspberry Pi Foundation has released a 16GB RAM variant of the Raspberry Pi 5, significantly enhancing its capabilities for local LLM hosting, large-scale software compilation, and professional edge computing applications.

ai businessJun 14, 20264 min

Shadow Operations: OpenAI Exposes Chinese Influence Campaign Targeting U.S. Data Centers

OpenAI says China-linked accounts used ChatGPT to seed covert narratives about AI data centers, electricity costs, tariffs, and U.S. tech policy—raising a sharper question about how AI tools are being used to manipulate public debate around the infrastructure powering the AI boom.