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Social media app TikTok has said it will fight an order by the Canadian government to cease operations in the country over national security concerns. -
Donald J. Trump has secured a returned to the White House to become the 47th US President.
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Workflow automation platform Flowfinity has made upgrades to its data centre sites to expand its capacity to meet increased customer demands.
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Elon Musk has announced that xAI, his AI startup rivalling OpenAI, plans to double the size of its Colossus supercomputer cluster, which currently consists of 100,000 Nvidia GPUs.
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Semiconductor manufacturer Wolfspeed is the latest chipmaker to receive funding under the US CHIPS and Science Act, receiving up to $750 million to build a new silicon carbide wafer manufacturing site in North Carolina.
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Crusoe, the crypto miners turned clean energy AI infrastructure operator, has launched a $3.4 billion joint venture with Blue Owl Capital and Primary Digital Infrastructure to build data centres in Texas.
Forthcoming events
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Lumen Technologies is to use Google’s Dunant transatlantic subsea cable to connect Virginia to France.
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Data centre REIT CyrusOne has changed its CEO again, after the firm said the company's board had “separated” from Bruce Duncan as short-lived president and chief executive officer.
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Nano-satellite company Swarm has introduced its own Raspberry Pi-style terminal so that developers can work on new applications.
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Microsoft has named Indian multi-national HCL Technologies as the launch partner for its Microsoft Cloud for Financial Services.
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Microsoft has posted an 18% annual increase in revenue for the year and a 32% jump in operating profits.
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Macquarie Asset Management has closed its Macquarie Infrastructure Partners V (MIP V) Americas infrastructure investment fund after raising $US6.9 billion - exceeding its $US5 billion target.
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Apple, Alphabet and Microsoft have all broken their existing records for quarterly revenues in their latest financial results.
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Open RAN and small cell specialist Mavenir has added to the responsibilities of its chief strategy officer, Bejoy Pankajakshan, by making him chief technology and strategy officer.
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G-Core Labs has expanded its content data network (CDN) with new points of presence in Canada and Romania.
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Nokia Bell Labs has released details of four recent major milestones that it has reached in its work to build a 4G/LTE network on the Moon for NASA.
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Digital Realty and Zayo Group have partnered to create the physical and virtual foundations of a new open fabric.
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Intel has set out its growth roadmap for Intel Foundry Services (IFS), as it looks reclaim share from Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co (TSMC) and Samsung.
