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Infantino calls executive meeting as criticism mounts - Published Gianni Infantino has summoned senior leaders of football's world governing body to a meeting in Morocco on Wednesday, after another day in which its president has faced fierce criticism of his scrapped plan to sell

As policymakers debate how to govern increasingly powerful AI systems like OpenAI’s GPT-5.6 Sol and Anthropic’s Mythos, a Chinese open-weight model has narrowed the gap with the industry’s leaders. GLM-5.2, the open-weight AI model from China’s Z.ai, is only a few months behind O

Palantir stock skyrocketed 29.5% on Tuesday after the company reported "otherworldly" second-quarter earnings driven by customer demand for AI sovereign tools. Shares narrowly missed their best day ever, when the stock gained 30.8% on Feb. 6, 2024. The enterprise software giant r

Palantir stock skyrocketed 29.5% on Tuesday after the company reported "otherworldly" second-quarter earnings driven by customer demand for AI sovereign tools. Shares narrowly missed their best day ever, when the stock gained 30.8% on Feb. 6, 2024. The enterprise software giant r

The Lenovo ThinkPad X1 Carbon Gen 14 comes from a long line of thin-and-light laptops. The X1 Carbon has been around for a long time, and for much of its history, it has defined what a slender Windows PC could be. Since we have been adding a few more notebook reviews lately, we w

VDURA and Wasabi Technologies have formed a technology alliance to connect GPU-adjacent AI data infrastructure with predictably priced, S3-compatible cloud storage. The partnership targets AI factories, neoclouds, and enterprise high-performance computing environments that need t

Anthropic has been on a cloud partnership spree in recent months, and its latest move is reportedly a $10 billion deal with AI cloud startup Volta. Bloomberg originally reported that Volta, founded earlier this year, will provide cloud compute to the Claude maker over a six-year

A new app called Wrinkles uses your location to automatically surface stories about the places around you. Wrinkles, available on both iOS and Android, essentially acts as an AI-powered audio tour guide that reveals hidden history and local stories. The idea behind the app is to

Historically, every storage read by a GPU has traversed the host CPU, which manages the file system, submits commands, and returns the data. This overhead is negligible for large sequential transfers but becomes a limiting factor when handling millions of 512-byte operations per

Samsung used the Future of Memory and Storage (FMS) 2026 conference to present its latest memory and storage technologies for artificial intelligence and high-performance computing. The company highlighted developments in DRAM, NAND, enterprise storage, advanced packaging, and se

FMS Storage Ticker - 4 Aug 2024 … DDN says today, a GPU often has to ask the CPU to fetch data for it. DDN and Nvidia are testing a way for the GPU to ask for that data itself, thus cutting out a step and reducing idle time. The new approach uses Nvidia’s SCADA architecture with

The week-old Open Secure AI Alliance (OSAA), an industry group spearheaded by Nvidia that has already grown to over 120 companies, has developed a cutely named working group, the Shared AI Findings Exchange, or SAFE. The group is already presenting proposals for open comment, and

Off the Wire Press Releases WESTMINSTER, Colo., Aug. 4, 2026 — Liqid, a global leader in software-defined memory and GPU pooling infrastructure, today announced its role as a strategic technology partner in Abaco, the memory-centric computing system designed by Micron, a subcontr

Oil prices fell sharply Tuesday after Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent indicated there may be a deal to open the Strait of Hormuz as soon as this week. Brent, the international oil benchmark, slid 5.3% to close at $79.36 per barrel. West Texas Intermediate futures lost 5.7% to se

New Data Center Developments: August 2026 We look at some of the latest data center developments announced over the past month. The demand for new data centers isn’t showing any sign of slowing. With new projects announced each week, keeping track of the latest data center develo

Artificial Intelligence Introducing Web Search on Amazon Bedrock for foundation model grounding When a foundation model needs to answer a question about last week’s earnings call, yesterday’s regulatory change, or this morning’s weather forecast, it needs knowledge it was never t

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