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Nvidia, the world's most valuable company and a key player in the artificial intelligence (AI) revolution, has once again shattered expectations with its third-quarter earnings for fiscal 2025. Yet, despite record-breaking results, the company's shares saw a surprising dip in after-hours trading. -
Metro Connect USA, the leading gathering for digital infrastructure professionals, has unveiled its 2025 Social Agenda, offering attendees a unique blend of exclusive events designed to foster connections and drive business opportunities.
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Nebius has launched its first GPU cluster as the AI infrastructure continues its North American expansion.
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The latest court filings in Elon Musk’s existential AI lawsuit against OpenAI revealed more fascinating insights, including a discussion about potentially acquiring sizable semiconductor firm Cerebras and Musk’s desperation to be CEO.
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The Frontier supercomputer has lost its crown as the world’s fastest supercomputer to El Capitan, the new exascale supercomputer hosted at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory.
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President-Elect Donald Trump has turned to Brendan Carr to lead the Federal Communications Commission (FCC).
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Optical semiconductor supplier Infinera has secured $93 million in direct funding from the US government to expand its fabrication and test and packaging facilities.
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Chris Sambar, formerly the president and head of networks at AT&T has joined self-storage company Public Storage.
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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.
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Chris Sambar, president and head of networks at AT&T will leave after more than two decades at the company.
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Eon, a startup developing a next-generation cloud backup solution, has emerged from stealth with $127 million in funding to reinvent cloud infrastructure backup.
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Cerebras Systems, creator of dinner plate-sized AI chips, has filed for an IPO to fund its ambitious challenge to Nvidia's dominance in the AI hardware market.
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Vertiv has revealed plans for a major expansion of its North American manufacturing footprint with a new 215,000-square-foot facility in Pelzer, South Carolina.
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Equinix has signed a joint venture agreement with Singapore’s GIC and Canada’s Pension Plan Investment Board (CPP Investments) to raise more than $15 billion in capital.
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The US Commerce Department has updated export rules that would ease chipmakers to shipping data centre hardware to trusted end users.
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The US government will provide $8.5 billion in funding to Intel by the end of the year, providing crucial support to the embattled semiconductor giant.
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Google has started construction on two new data centres in Dorchester County, South Carolina, as part of a $2 billion investment that will create 200 jobs.
