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Microsoft Teams introduced an in‑meeting toggle that lets organizers turn its AI assistant on or off during live meetings, addressing privacy worries about AI listening in sensitive discussions.
Amazon announced the general availability of its new C9g and C9gd compute‑optimized EC2 instances, delivering up to 25% higher performance per vCPU and up to 3× higher packet‑processing throughput thanks to the Graviton5 chip.
Field trials demonstrate that GPU clusters can slash electricity consumption within seconds of receiving a grid signal, potentially unlocking 100 GW of capacity without building new power plants.
AWS announced that its EC2 Dedicated Hosts will support AMD Secure Encrypted Virtualization‑Secure Nested Paging, enabling confidential computing workloads on fully dedicated servers.
Nvidia announced a new program allowing AI startups to swap compute power for a slice of future profits, expanding access to its GPU ecosystem.
The Department of Homeland Security is investigating a breach of its Homeland Security Information Network, which could risk national security and affect emergency coordination.
Microsoft Foundry has made Claude’s Sonnet 5 generally available on Azure, removing procurement hurdles and allowing enterprises to use Anthropic’s model under Azure’s billing and governance.
Following its Language Processing Unit reveal at GTC 2026, Nvidia expanded its data‑center product roadmap to include new GPU and LPU generations through 2028.
Google Cloud now supports Anthropic’s Claude Apps Gateway, giving enterprises a central point to manage Claude Code deployments and enforce usage limits.
Microsoft’s Azure Quantum platform now offers a commercial quantum‑ready cloud service, enabling developers to run hybrid quantum‑classical workloads on the cloud with simplified deployment.
Amazon Web Services expands its global infrastructure with a new Local Zone in Athens, Greece, providing low‑latency compute, storage, and AI services for local data processing and compliance.
SpaceX will supply Reflection AI with $150 million/month of Nvidia GB300 chips, a $6.3 billion commitment that underlines the growing importance of open‑weight AI infrastructure.
Dell unveiled the PowerEdge XE8812, a high‑end AI server powered by Nvidia’s new Vera Rubin NVL4 architecture, aimed at enterprise AI factories.
Microsoft’s Azure Quantum platform will add 50 new quantum nodes across the United States, positioning it as the largest public quantum cloud provider. The rollout is part of a broader push into quantum infrastructure.
Amazon announced its new RNG architecture, a flat, random‑graph based network that reduces hardware by 69% and increases throughput by 33%, becoming the default for most AWS workloads.
Amazon updated Aurora Serverless with a new platform version that improves scaling behavior and runtime efficiency, enabling faster capacity scaling and higher database performance.
Rackspace and AMD sign a memorandum to deliver managed AI infrastructure with AMD GPU capacity for regulated sectors.
The AWS blog details the general availability of AWS Interconnect, new Bedrock models, and a host of infrastructure updates—including new EC2 instances and enhanced ECR capabilities—underscoring the platform’s continued focus on cloud architecture and performance.