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The RAN is entering a new phase where the principles of openness, the flexibility of cloud-native architectures, and the power of AI converge. Open RAN has laid the foundation for disaggregation, Cloud RAN provides the architectural pathway to scalable automation, and AI-RAN repr

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One of Silicon Valley’s top political fixers, Bradley Tusk, built a career helping startups like Uber and FanDuel brawl their way to legitimacy — in his words, “legalize disruptive sh*t.” His message to AI companies: You have no idea what’s coming. “It is quite possible that this

AMD this morning is announcing a new family of their Versal Premium adaptive SoCs, the Versal Premium Gen 2 Memory on Package lineup. These latest designs are a further evolution of AMD’s existing Versal Premium Gen 2 silicon, which bring LPDDR5X memory on board the chip package

Dive Brief: - Rhode Island Gov. Dan McKee on Thursday signed into law a bill that mandates a staffing ratio for the self-checkout area in grocery stores. - The legislation, which the United Food and Commercial Workers Local 328 supported, will require stores to assign at least on

Digital Realty Pays $3.5B for Blackstone Data Center Stakes The deal reflects the operator’s strategy to scale its footprint amid surging AI-driven demand for data center infrastructure, while potentially signaling Blackstone’s shift toward higher-return investments. Digital Real

A data center planned for Le Bourget, France, could be blocked by the commune’s newly elected mayor. Mehdi Nezzar, who took over as mayor of Le Bourget, a commune in the northeastern suburbs of Paris, earlier this year, is demanding the cancellation of a 75MW data center planned

Equinix has officially killed its bare-metal service. The platform sunsets on June 30, though console access will remain available until December 31, 2026, for users with the 'Owner' role. They will still be able to download invoices and billing history and view historical accoun

A new state law limits Florida communities’ aims to offset greenhouse gas emissions that are warming the global climate and intensifying disasters such as hurricanes. Specifically, HB 1217 prohibits local governments from pursuing net-zero emissions goals. At least 10 cities and

Meta releases version two of its brain-computer interface that can turn thoughts into keypresses — non-invasive magnetoencephalography scanner can measure changes in brain activity This "thinking cap" could let patients use a BCI without needing to go under the knife. Elon Musk’s

Off the Wire Press Releases ENSCHEDE, Netherlands, June 30, 2026 — QuiX Quantum today released its vision of universal photonic quantum computing with logical qubits through Dedalo, the company’s new system architecture designed to achieve practical, fault-tolerant systems that w

China is reshaping its education system for the AI age. Beijing on Monday announced plans to integrate AI across all levels of schooling, while universities in recent years have revoked or suspended 12,200 so-called “obsolete” undergraduate degree programs, many of which were in

China does not have the capability to conquer Taiwan, a former commander of US forces in the Pacific wrote in Foreign Affairs, arguing that trends in military technology now favor the island and the US, its main backer. China’s rapid military modernization has merely brought Beij

Renewables were the world’s largest source of total energy supply growth last year for the first time outside a recession, according to a new Energy Institute report, with solar accounting for 72% of the total. China delivered another record year for both solar and wind — more th

Nearly a month has passed since the New Glenn rocket exploded on its launch pad in Florida, creating a massive fireball. It was likely the largest ever rocket explosion at the historic Florida spaceport, and we are still dealing with its implications today. The rocket’s explosion

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Nvidia reportedly cancels quad-die Rubin Ultra GPU in favor of dual-GPU design, report claims — complex design purportedly scrapped over 'manufacturing execution concerns' Fewer GPUs, more rack-scale systems? In a bid to offer unbeatable performance, Nvidia had planned to use fou

A new subsea cable in the Baltic Sea is being planned The Amber Cable is set to be 1,500km long, with nine cable landing stations in Finland, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, and Denmark along these countries’ Baltic Sea coast. The project is currently in ‘phase one’, which in

Digital Realty is acquiring a stake in three Virginia data centers from investment giant Blackstone. The US colo firm and Blackstone this week announced that Digital Realty has agreed to purchase a stake in three fully leased data centers in Northern Virginia totaling 288MW of to

China is nearing a key decision point, in which refurbishment of its steel sectors could lock in the high-emissions industry’s carbon output for more than a decade, a top expert noted. Blast furnaces must be “relined” every 15-20 years to ensure they can safely handle enormous te

The oil market is coming full circle as millions of barrels that were stranded in the Persian Gulf head to global markets, creating a sudden oversupply that has pushed prices to their lowest level since the US-Iran war began. Morgan Stanley analysts said in a note to clients that

More than 220 million people in the US will face dangerous temperatures this week, including over the July 4 holiday. Forecasters predict record-breaking heat across the East and Midwest — New York and Washington could see 100°F (37.7°C) — with a high-pressure system rivalling th

XRG, the international investment arm of Abu Dhabi oil company ADNOC, has agreed to take a 32% stake in three upstream blocks in Argentina that will supply gas to the country’s first LNG export terminal — adding to the growing list of overseas LNG deals by Gulf energy majors. XRG

Confusion reigned over whether the US and Iran will hold talks in Doha. Washington said they would meet; Tehran said its representatives would only see Qatari mediators. Iran insists vessels pass through its waters in the Strait of Hormuz as it seeks to maintain the control over

“There are a lot of people that are going out there and saying things like, ‘all jobs are going away,’ or ‘we're going to automate everything,’ or this language about the permanent underclass. And it really upsets me because not only is it inaccurate, but it's really harmful to t

The AI buildout is reshaping the global economy. Memory chip demand has already pushed consumer electronics prices up, and RAM prices are expected to increase a further 40-50% in the coming quarter. The three biggest memorymakers have seen profits and market caps surge, while sha

OVHcloud's CEO Octave Klaba reiterated the company's aim to take a piece of the AI pie during the company's Q3 2026 earnings call. Klaba has of late shown some interest in the development of its own LLMs. Earlier this month, the CEO was reported to have said that it plans to trai

JetCool has launched a liquid-cooled Dell PowerEdge server. The Dell PowerEdge XE7745 server apparently “combines a fully integrated, liquid-cooled system with commissioning, deployment, and ongoing maintenance services” across the server and cooling environment. “By bringing tog

Watching Elon Musk fulminate at Bill Savitt during Musk v. Altman — the case in which Musk sued Sam Altman and OpenAI instead of seeing a therapist about his AI failures — was a bit like watching a toddler have a temper tantrum at his nursery school teacher. Savitt’s questions we

UK operator Virtus Data Centres is planning a new data center outside London. The company this week announced the development of London19. Located within the Slough Trading Estate, the facility will deliver 32.5MW of IT load. Planning permission for London19 has already been secu

Chinese Z.ai's latest model tops AI ranking charts amid Anthropic Fable 5 ban — blacklisted China firm's popular open-weight GLM-5.2 AI model powered by Huawei silicon Z.ai's open-weight model leads the accessible field on domestic chips. On June 12th, the U.S. Commerce Departmen

Taiwan raided the local offices of US IT firm Super Micro over allegations that it helped smuggle Nvidia chips into China, underscoring the geopolitical importance of the world’s most advanced semiconductors. Washington has banned the export of cutting-edge chips to China, citing

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China’s manufacturing activity expanded more than expected, cementing the country’s two-track economy with domestic demand still in the doldrums. The relatively upbeat purchasing managers’ index reading for this month was largely driven by the global AI investment boom and the br

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Cryptominer turned AI and HPC data center firm Ionic Digital has secured $400 million in equity investment. The company said the round was led by new investors Attestor, Oaktree Capital Management, and Sachem Head Capital Management, with participation from Citadel and Weiss Asse

Taiwan raids Supermicro and two supply-chain partners in widening Nvidia smuggling probe — nine sites hit as six people summoned for questioning Prosecutors searched six homes and three company sites. Taiwan's Keelung District Prosecutors' Office raided Supermicro Computer's Taiw