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Nvidia's half-trillion-dollar AI investment fund could impact enterprise chip pricing, availability
In an attempt to facilitate the buildout of AI infrastructure over time, Nvidia and six financial partners said they are creating a fund of more than $500 billion of third-party capital. The impact of such a cash infusion on enterprise AI is uncertain, bu
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IBM, Together AI team to offer open-source AI inference in the cloud
IBM has inked a $240 million deal with neocloud provider Together AI to offer a cloud service that will run large capacity, open-source AI inference workloads. The service will be based on a large cluster of Nvidia HGX B300 systems running Spectrum-X Ethe
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Server prices to rise by up to 87% at OVHcloud
OVH is increasing the prices of its servers, some by as much as 87%, for both new and existing customers, blaming AI's insatiable demand driving the rising cost of the RAM and storage it uses in its data centers. The European cloud operator specializes in
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IT infrastructure shortages are real and lasting. Here's how to cope
Lead times of nine to 12 or even 18 months. Costs rising by 35%, 45%, even 50% to 200%. More than halfway through 2026, the market for IT infrastructure that's crucial for enterprise projects, including those involving artificial intelligence, is strapped
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Tor still runs on altruism, but cheap hosting is pulling it off course
Millions of people rely on a network of unpaid volunteers to stay anonymous online, and for 25 years that network has run on altruism rather than profit. Tor, short for The Onion Router, routes a user's traffic through three volunteer operated relays, as
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Out of band, out of mind: DEF CON research calls IPMI a 'sanctioned backdoor' into enterprise networks
Sitting inside almost every server is a potential backdoor that could put an enterprise network at risk. Baseboard management controllers, or BMCs, are the hardware embedded in server motherboards that provide remote power control, console access, and fir
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Samsung offers future AI memory roadmap
Samsung Electronics has unveiled a trio of next-generation memory technologies aimed at overcoming the performance, power and capacity limitations facing artificial intelligence infrastructure. The announcements, made at the Future of Memory and Storage (
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Polish data center plans to send its waste heat to the neighbors
As Europe swelters in a heatwave, residents probably don't want to hear about ways to make their homes even hotter, but that's what Polish property developer Citylink is talking about, with plans to dump waste heat from a new data center in Wrocław into t
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AMD to buy Taalas, maker of model-specific AI chips for enterprise inference
As enterprises look for ways to cut the cost of running AI models in production, AMD is betting that not every AI workload will be best served by a power-hungry general-purpose GPU. AMD has agreed to buy Taalas, the Canadian designer of chips that permane
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Agentic AI could force a rethink of enterprise AI server design, researchers say
Enterprises deploying agentic AI may need a new generation of AI servers as conventional GPU-centric infrastructure struggles to efficiently execute multi-step AI workflows, according to researchers from Microsoft Azure and the University of Texas at Aust
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