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Infosys Helps E.ON Enable AI-Powered Digital Workplace Transformation

Infosys Helps E.ON Enable AI-Powered Digital Workplace Transformation

Leveraging Infosys Topaz, the collaboration will aim to enable effortless experiences and productivity improvements for over 77,000 E.ON employees across Europe.
Alibaba Dreams Big on Global Cloud Expansion

Alibaba Dreams Big on Global Cloud Expansion

CEO Eddie Wu says Alibaba will create a "unified global cloud network" in the wake of H20 export bans.
Orbital Data Centres Near-Future Reality as Sophia Space Raises Funding

Orbital Data Centres Near-Future Reality as Sophia Space Raises Funding

On-orbit computing startup Sophia Space raises $3.5m and promises orbital data centres.
Oracle to Spend $40Bn on Nvidia GPUs for OpenAI Texas Data Centre

Oracle to Spend $40Bn on Nvidia GPUs for OpenAI Texas Data...

The Abilene campus is being developed by Crusoe in partnership with Oracle, on land owned by Lancium.
OpenAI’s o3 Just Went Rogue, Bypassed Shutdown, Rewrote Script

OpenAI’s o3 Just Went Rogue, Bypassed Shutdown, Rewrote Script

OpenAI's latest ChatGPT model, o3, was found attempting to override a shutdown command – a directive it was explicitly instructed to follow.
Fractal Launches Fathom-R1-14B Reasoning Model on DeepSeek for $499

Fractal Launches Fathom-R1-14B Reasoning Model on DeepSeek for $499

Fractal’s new model outperforms competitors like o1-mini and o3-mini, with performance close to o4-mini levels.
OpenAI to Buy Jony Ive’s AI Devices Startup for $6.4Bn

OpenAI to Buy Jony Ive’s AI Devices Startup for $6.4Bn

The purchase is by far OpenAI’s largest and comes weeks after the company agreed to buy AI-assisted coding tool Windsurf for $3 billion.
Meta Launches Program to Encourage Startups to Use its Llama AI Models

Meta Launches Program to Encourage Startups to Use its Llama AI...

The company used a version of its Llama 4 Maverick model “optimised for conversationality” to achieve a high score on LM Arena, but released a different version of Maverick publicly.
Slack Launches New Employee-Facing Experience for Agentforce

Slack Launches New Employee-Facing Experience for Agentforce

With a simple @ mention, employees can bring Agentforce into the flow of work to ask questions and trigger actions that move work forward for everyone.
Qualcomm Announces Data Centre CPUs

Qualcomm Announces Data Centre CPUs

Qualcomm originally entered the data centre market at the end of 2017, with the launch of its first server CPU, the Centriq 2400.

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