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Huawei and Cambricon sharply increased prices for their AI accelerator cards amid a global HBM shortage, underscoring supply‑chain pressures in the AI chip market.
Elon Musk’s tunneling firm secured a $3 billion Series D, boosting its valuation to $23 billion and expanding its Middle East tunnel plans.
A Breakingviews analysis argues that the current wave of AI‑driven data‑centre operators mirrors the broadband boom of the early 2000s, with neoclouds competing against hyperscalers for GPU‑heavy workloads.
Microsoft released the largest security update ever, patching 966 vulnerabilities—including two actively exploited zero‑days—using an AI‑powered discovery system.
The EIB provided a €1 billion credit to Belgian grid operator Elia for its offshore Princess Elisabeth island project, a key infrastructure investment to connect future wind farms to the national grid.
Amazon Web Services unveiled HyperPod InstantStart, an open‑source control plane that combines EKS orchestration with SageMaker HyperPod capabilities to streamline AI cluster operations.
JetBrains warns users to revoke credentials after attackers exploited a critical TeamCity vulnerability (CVE‑2026‑63077) to access Cadence cloud data, including backups and user information.
Jarvislabs.ai introduces a service that automates model setup, validation and inference optimization, enabling faster AI deployment for enterprises.
A Capgemini survey shows 86% of large organisations report significant exposure to digital sovereignty risks, prompting increased board oversight and contingency planning for critical digital infrastructure.
CERT Polska revealed a chain of RouterOS vulnerabilities that allow attackers to take full control of MikroTik devices with SSH exposed to the internet, prompting urgent patches.
The company shut down its Michigan data center’s Bitcoin mining operations to prepare the site for a long‑term AI cloud‑computing customer, shifting 20MW of power to AI workloads.
Broadcom will perform maintenance on its High‑Risk Isolation service to improve stability, affecting Cloud SWG customers during the 10‑hour window.
A hacker group called Rhysida released nearly six terabytes of Berlin state‑administration data, including personal and defense‑related information, to the dark web.
A routine maintenance error caused a partial outage in Google Cloud’s us‑central1‑b region when an engineer unplugged all fiber‑optic cables, leading to severe network degradation.
A widespread outage hit OpenAI’s ChatGPT, Anthropic’s Claude, Google’s Gemini, X’s Grok, and other AI platforms, causing millions of users to experience errors.
Microsoft and Scale AI announced a partnership to provide high‑quality labeled datasets for autonomous vehicle research, boosting model accuracy and safety.
CrowdStrike launched SafeMind, AI models for offensive and defensive security, and partnered with Nvidia to enhance its Falcon platform.
Microsoft partners with DE‑CIX to launch Azure ExpressRoute Metro, providing georedundant, low‑latency connectivity for AI workloads across North America, Europe and Asia.
Equinix launches Fabric One, a managed any‑to‑any connectivity service that simplifies linking distributed cloud, AI and enterprise environments.
Nvidia invests $3.5 billion in convertible bonds to integrate its NVLink Fusion platform with MediaTek’s custom AI chip business, expanding data‑center capabilities.