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Alibaba wants to expand data center capacity past 20 GW by 2032, says its new V900 AI chip can scale to 500,000-card clusters, but will ‘China’s most powerful AI chip’ be enough to displace Nvidia GPUs?
Alibaba’s T-Head unveiled the Zhenwu V900 with 216GB of memory, 1.2TB/s links, and a claimed 3x gain over the already-shipping M890 Very few details associated with its raw performance: Alibaba gave no FLOPS, node, foundry, or power figures, and both specs it did share project it will trail Huawei’s Ascend…
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Meta unfurls Petal, a 1,000,000 Gbps internet cable 4,300 miles long — that’s 3.3 million times quicker than the average US connection, and probably fast enough to transfer all original songs ever produced in less than a second
Meta’s Petal cable will carry a petabit of data every single second The cable stretches roughly 7,000 kilometers between the United States and France Meta expects Petal to enter commercial service sometime in 2029 Meta has announced Petal, a subsea cable system built to carry a petabit of data every…
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New Jersey hits data center powering Microsoft Copilot with $1m fine after drone expose 62 secretly-installed gas generators
New Jersey issues $1.07m fine for failure to obtain permits to run gas generators DataOne campus running Microsoft’s AI was using 62 of them illegally DataOne “disagree[s]” but has 45 days to obtain the relevant permits A Microsoft partner has been hit with a $1.07 million fine by the US…
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Microsoft unveils huge spending expansion in Middle East, with new multi-billion dollar sums going to Gulf States
Microsoft pledges $10 billion to support the Middle East’s technological ambitions A $400m subsea cable expansion is also in the works The company stressed push for its educational support schemes Microsoft has revealed plans to spend more than $10 billion in the Middle East between now and 2030, spread across…
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Google’s creepy new Gemini Live Avatars want to try and make online support bots feel more human
Gemini 3.8 Live now includes custom avatars to go with the AI’s voice Avatars could be used for customer service, training and more Gemini 3.8 Live can switch between 97 languages automatically Google has lifted the wraps of its latest Gemini 3.8 Live model, and with it come avatars you…
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Your invoice now needs a boarding pass
Around the world, governments are changing how e-invoicing works. Instead of checking transactions after the fact, many are moving towards real-time clearance models. Brazil’s NF-e system was one of the earliest examples of this shift. Italy’s SDI model follows a similar approach, where an invoice must pass through the tax…
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