The data center in space is a gamble on five numbers (Analyst Angle)

The push for orbital data centres promises abundant solar power, but faces severe constraints in heat rejection, launch costs, congestion, downlink bandwidth and depreciation – suggesting niche applications rather than hyperscale displacement of Earth-based infrastructure overall. Vish Nandlall tells the…

Coherent Breaks Ground on Expanded Texas Facility, Scaling AI’s Optical Backbone

AI runs at the speed of light. More and more, that light is made in Texas. Coherent broke ground today on an expanded manufacturing building in Sherman, Texas. The company makes the lasers, optical components and compound semiconductors that wire AI systems together — and runs what it calls the world’s first 6-inch indium phosphide […]

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Kuwait Joins Global Race to Finance AI Infrastructure

The Kuwait Investment Authority (KIA) has joined forces with Nvidia, KKR and US power producer Vistra to launch Helix Digital Infrastructure, a new company backed by more than $10 billion in committed capital to develop large-scale infrastructure supporting the rapid expansion of artificial intelligence. The venture will be led by Adam Selipsky, the former chief executive of Amazon Web […]

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Fastest, Largest, Strongest: NVIDIA Blackwell Sweeps MLPerf Training 6.0

Every breakthrough AI model starts the same way: with a training run. The infrastructure running those training jobs shapes everything: how fast teams can iterate, what scale of model they can build and whether those jobs complete reliably. As models grow in size, complexity and intelligence, the demands on training infrastructure are also rising. In […]

Succession and continuity as Narvinger replaces Ekholm at Ericsson

Per Narvinger replaces Börje Ekholm as chief executive at Ericsson, signalling strategic continuity in the Swedish vendor’s focus on 5G execution and operator-led growth – thrown into relief as old rival Nokia continues to pursue a more aggressive AI infrastructure…

AI demands to drive multiple optical network architectures, Ciena says

According to Helen Xenos, senior director of portfolio marketing at Ciena, selecting the appropriate optical technology depends on the customer’s primary constraint In sum – what to know: AI reshapes DCI – Helen Xenos said AI scale-across deployments require roughly…

Sovereign AI strategies are converging on bottleneck blueprints (Analyst Angle)

As nations race to build sovereign AI capabilities, successful strategies are converging on a common formula: control critical bottlenecks. The real differentiator is no longer ambition or spending, but the ability to turn power, infrastructure, regulation and demand into lasting…

NVIDIA Blackwell Leads on First Agentic AI Infrastructure Benchmark

AgentPerf from Artificial Analysis, the industry’s first agentic AI benchmark, gives developers, enterprises and infrastructure providers a clear way to compare systems for agentic AI. In the first round of published results, the NVIDIA Blackwell Ultra NVL72 platform delivers leading performance across the agentic AI workloads tested, running 20x more agents per megawatt than NVIDIA […]

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SpaceX, OpenAI and the Birth of the AI Capital Market

The emergence of trillion-dollar technology companies is reshaping global finance and giving rise to what investors increasingly describe as the AI Capital Market — a new investment ecosystem centered on artificial intelligence, computing infrastructure, advanced communications networks and the sovereign capital financing them. At the forefront of this transformation is SpaceX, whose planned…

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AI is making DCI a critical infrastructure priority, says AFL

Speaking during a recent RCR webinar, AFL’s Noah Taylor said that as hyperscalers expand AI deployments, the networks linking data centers are becoming increasingly important alongside the facilities themselves In sum – what to know: DCI scales rapidly – Taylor…

New fiber diet – Telenor and Vodafone reshape scale at the AI edge

European telcos are rebuilding scale in their fixed networks through acquisitions, joint ventures, and wholesale models to reduce fiber overlap, improve economics, and prep the AI-edge. In sum – what to know: Telenor – is acquiring Norwegian fiber operator Enivest…

NVIDIA Confidential Computing to Help Expand Apple’s Private Cloud Compute

NVIDIA GPUs with Confidential Computing are now used for confidential inference in Apple’s Private Cloud Compute (PCC), as it expands beyond Apple’s data centers to Google Cloud. Unveiled during Apple’s annual WWDC gathering for developers from around the globe, NVIDIA GPUs will support server-side inference for Apple Foundation Models, custom-built by Apple and Google, leveraging […]

UK pumps money into sovereign AI, as AI startups start to show their mettle

The UK government’s £1.1bn AI hardware plan anchors a new national compute strategy, including a £750m supercomputer in Edinburgh and targeted support for UK chip startups, alongside major private commitments from AMD and Nebius worth nearly £4bn, and a growing…

NVIDIA and LG Group Build an AI Factory to Advance Physical AI, Mobility and AI Infrastructure

NVIDIA and LG Group are building an AI factory to accelerate LG Group’s next wave of AI-driven businesses, spanning robotics, autonomous driving, data center technologies and GPU cloud services. The AI factory will provide LG Group with accelerated computing infrastructure to train, simulate, validate and deploy AI-based applications across its key businesses. The collaboration brings […]

NVIDIA and Doosan Group Collaborate to Advance Physical AI and AI Factory Infrastructure

NVIDIA and Doosan Group are expanding their collaboration to advance new opportunities across physical AI, robotics and AI factory infrastructure, spanning Doosan Robotics, Doosan Bobcat, Doosan Enerbility and Doosan Corporation Electro-Materials BG. The collaboration will bring together NVIDIA’s full-stack accelerated computing platforms with Doosan Group’s capabilities in industrial automation,…

Ciena sees AI networking market reaching $50 billion by 2029

Hyperscalers are focused on monetizing their AI compute investments, which continues to direct a larger share of spending towards network infrastructure, observes Ciena chief Gary Smith. In sum – what to know: Market expansion – Ciena said its addressable market…

Seoul Purpose: How NVIDIA and South Korea Are Building the Future of AI

Home to cutting-edge sovereign AI infrastructure and robotics innovators, as well as one of the world’s most passionate gaming communities, South Korea is one of the world’s centers of AI. NVIDIA founder and CEO Jensen Huang is in Seoul this week to meet the partners and builders behind that work. Stay tuned here for live […]

Sovereignty is the word – Orange anchors digital-change to trust and control

Orange Business is advancing its enterprise strategy through sovereign and secure data management and services. A new French hospital deployment shows the model in use – but everything from the French firm, lately, is pinned to the same message, including…

NVIDIA Partners With Microsoft on Unified Stack for Agentic AI Deployment, From Windows Devices to Cloud to Local

The agentic AI moment has arrived, but delivering on its promise requires more than good models. It also takes fast hardware, secure runtimes, a responsive data layer and models tuned for long-running reasoning. NVIDIA and Microsoft are bringing that full stack to developers across Windows devices, Azure cloud and local deployments. At Microsoft Build, NVIDIA […]

Pacific subsea networks emerge as AI expansion grid – as Telstra, Google, FLAG reshape global routing

A reciprocal infrastructure deal between Telstra and Google, a new India-Singapore route from FLAG, and a record-breaking fiber transmission test from Japan’s NICT all point to the same thing – that the subsea market is entering a new phase, and…

Europe’s new AI landlord – France grabs €75bn Softbank investment for nuclear-powered AI infra

Softbank’s €75bn plan to build 5GW of AI data center capacity in France is being hailed in Paris as a breakthrough for European digital sovereignty. But the scale of foreign capital – despite the absence of US hyperscalers – raises…

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Beyond Nvidia: Where the Next AI Profits Could Be Found

The first phase of the artificial intelligence revolution created a clear winner: Nvidia. As demand for AI computing exploded, the company’s advanced processors became the essential engines powering everything from chatbots and large language models to hyperscale data centres. Yet as the AI industry enters a new stage of development, investors are increasingly asking a […]

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NVIDIA AI Cloud Ecosystem Expands Worldwide to Meet Global AI Compute Demand

The NVIDIA AI Cloud ecosystem is accelerating the global buildout of AI factory infrastructure. Partners are expanding capacity to meet growing demand from enterprises, startups, nations, AI labs and developers scaling agentic AI applications. NVIDIA AI Clouds are a growing ecosystem of purpose-built clouds serving the exploding token demand behind today’s most popular AI applications. […]

NVIDIA Factory Operations Blueprint Gives Factories a New AI Brain

As factories move from isolated automation to plant-wide intelligence, manufacturers need AI systems that can connect live machine signals, quality systems, work instructions and operational alerts into a unified decision layer. Today at GTC Taipei at COMPUTEX, NVIDIA announced the NVIDIA Factory Operations Blueprint (FOX) — a reference design for building an autonomous factory manager […]

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