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Insight and analysis on the data center space from industry thought leaders. As AI Scales, Can Traditional Cooling Keep Up? As AI workloads push rack densities higher, operators are rethinking cooling strategies as power demands, water use, and infrastructure limits collide. AI a

Fiber expansion still has significant room to grow, according to Nir Hollander, general manager of Amdocs Mobile & Fiber Networks. Speaking with Fierce Network TV, Hollander said about 60% of U.S. homes now have access to fiber, while adoption sits closer to 45%, leaving addition

US tech layoffs record single-highest month in two years, and more than any other sector — nearly 40,000 get the axe, AI the most cited reason for layoffs Challenger data shows tech leading both layoffs and hiring. U.S. tech companies announced 38,242 job cuts in May, more than a

Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. — the world’s biggest semiconductor-maker — is struggling to meet demands from American customers even with its factory buildout in the US, according to reports from Reuters and Bloomberg. “Customer demand is so high, and we can only support

On Monday, SpaceX amended its initial public offering to state that water conditions—including water scarcity, regulations around water, and drought—could constrain data center development. It isn’t the only tech company trying to assess how water scarcity might impact its busine

Apple on Thursday offered its annual update on the state of the App Store ecosystem ahead of its Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC) that begins next week. The technology giant said that its App Store facilitated over $1.4 trillion in developer billings and sales in 2025, a fi

Today on Decoder, I’m talking to Ryan Mac, a technology reporter at The New York Times and coauthor of the excellent book Character Limit: How Elon Musk Destroyed Twitter, which came out in 2024. I can’t recommend it enough. Elon Musk is steamrolling Wall Street to become a trill

Off the Wire Press Releases LONDON, June 4, 2026 – OQC, JPMorganChase and AMD have announced a research collaboration leveraging a new and dedicated Quantum-AI Data Centre, built by OQC in London. JPMorganChase researchers will test near-term quantum and hybrid quantum-classical

A weird text from my dad in February sent me on a months-long quest to solve a mystery that has been troubling an odd group of victims from a Columbia University data breach last year. That group? People with absolutely no connection to the school. The text included a photo of a

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Coinbase on Thursday unveiled a new product that lets customers get price exposure to private companies before they go public, starting with a perpetual futures contract –better known as a "perp" – tied to SpaceX. Pre-IPO perps give traders the ability to speculate on the value o

Silicon Motion increases sales of SSD controllers amid NAND shortage, but expects NAND shortages to get worse in 2027 — 'supply conditions will become even worse' The future is not bright for NAND supply. SSD pricing hit record highs in Q1 2026 amid high demand and insufficient s

Single-turn chatbots are evolving into long-running agents that can reason, maintain context, use tools, and run efficiently across many turns to complete complex workflows. However, these multi-agent workflows cause token counts to grow quickly. Agents plan, call tools, invoke s

June’s forecast with GeForce NOW: 100% chance of gaming. GeForce NOW is lining up new adventures for the month, from big-name blockbusters to quirky indies ready for the spotlight. Members can dive into fresh worlds, squad up in new playlists and discover “just one more run” favo

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Alation's Data Products Marketplace now includes Semantic Model Mastering, a new capability that lets enterprises catalog semantic models from any platform, govern them as data products, and sync back to source systems. For data stewards and data product owners managing semantic

It’s almost impossible to avoid seeing AI-generated content online, but it doesn’t have to be this way. YouTube, Instagram, TikTok, and more have ramped up content authentication efforts over the last year, with many now automatically applying labels to distinguish AI-generated i

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This is CNBC's Morning Squawk newsletter. Subscribe here to receive future editions in your inbox. Happy Thursday. It was a big night for the Knicks — and for the New York City bar that used prediction markets to hedge its customers' tabs. S&P 500 futures are falling this morning

Some of the AI industry’s biggest rivals have put their many, many grievances aside for a common cause: making it harder for people to use their technology to develop biological weapons. In an open letter to US lawmakers, tech leaders are pressing Congress to enact rules closing

Hyte shows off Y50 chassis, aesthetic cable accessory kit, new fans, and updates Nexus Software — sub $100 Y50 brings value to Y-series, Nexus 3.0 goes web-based, now works on Mac, Linux, Windows, and your phone Hyte keeps the cash-strapped consumer in mind One of my first stops

Best of Computex 2026: Innovating despite disruptions A strange mix of affordability and excess, old tech and new ideas not quite realized Each spring, leading PC hardware vendors gather in Taiwan for Computex, a massive showcase of everything from svelte new laptops to brighter

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‘Bots have now passed human traffic online,’ Cloudflare boss laments — says agentic traffic wasn’t expected to eclipse real people until next year Bot (automated) vs. human HTTP requests are split 57.5 vs. 42.5 percent, according to the firm’s latest data. The rapid increase in a

AMD's Helios MI455X AI platform breaks cover, initial systems use UALink-over-Ethernet interconnects — AMD's Vera Rubin rival surfaces, but the downsides of Ethernet could hamstring performance AMD’s first rack-scale AI machine is incoming. Several AMD partners are showing off th

Bluesky, the social media platform that originated within Twitter, rose to prominence as a rival to the network after Elon Musk acquired the company and rebranded it as X. But, two years since its launch, the site has around just 10% of X's estimated global users. Bluesky's Chief

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman admits AI token costs are becoming 'a huge issue' — company seeks improved value as overspending becomes a meme Are companies not getting more value out of the tokens they spent on AI? OpenAI CEO Sam Altman has said in an interview that companies are now con

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Production of DDR4 memory and motherboards is restarting amid unprecedented memory shortages — PC industry preparing for a world without DDR5 Back to the (stone) DDR4 age. The PC industry is bracing for a slip back to DDR4 memory among enthusiasts. Tom’s Hardware has learned at C