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NVIDIA Pledges 75% Fewer GPUs for Agent Training with Vera Rubin—But Windows IT Gets the Ripple Effects
NVIDIA just dropped a number that could reshape how businesses think about AI training costs: 75% fewer GPUs for the continuous post-training of agentic models. On July 17, the company said its...
Anthropic Turns to Meta for $10B AI Compute Lease as Claude Demand Surges
Anthropic has entered early-stage negotiations to lease up to $10 billion worth of AI computing capacity from Meta, CNBC reported on Thursday. If finalized, the two-year deal would give the Claude...
You Can Soon Self-Host a Near-Frontier AI Model — Kimi K3 Arrives July 27
Moonshot AI dropped a 2.8-trillion-parameter model on July 16 that doesn’t quite beat the top US systems overall but has already topped them on a critical coding benchmark. The bigger news: on July...
Public Cloud Growth Hits 25–35% in Q2, Channel Checks Find, Raising Stakes for Big Tech Earnings
Public-cloud usage accelerated dramatically in the second quarter of 2026, according to a fresh report from alternative-data firm UncoverAlpha. The firm’s channel checks and expert interviews...
Australia to Data Centres: Fund Your Own Power or Don't Build — What the 2027 Rules Mean for Cloud
Large data centre operators in Australia could soon be required to finance their own power generation and pay the full cost of connecting to the electricity grid, under a raft of proposed standards...
Microsoft Azure First Hyperscaler to Deploy 3M's Dust-Resistant Fiber Tech, Aiming to Slash AI Data Center Build Times
Microsoft’s Azure cloud will become the first publicly announced hyperscale platform to deploy 3M’s Expanded Beam Optical (EBO) fiber connectivity technology, a move designed to accelerate the...
Nebius Pledges 4 GW of AI Power by 2026: Here’s What It Means for Cloud Users
Nebius Group is no longer content just renting out GPUs. The Amsterdam-based company announced this month that it will surpass 4 gigawatts of contracted data-center power by the end of 2026, a...
Microsoft’s AI Spending Spree Under Fire: What Windows Users and IT Pros Need to Know
Microsoft’s enormous artificial intelligence investments are facing their most pointed critique yet, and the argument has direct implications for anyone who uses Windows, Office, or Azure. In a...
Google Cloud’s $20B Quarter and $460B AI Backlog Reshape Enterprise IT Options
Google Cloud revenue topped $20 billion for the first time in a single quarter, and its backlog of future AI-related contract value nearly doubled to $460 billion. Those numbers—reported in...
One in Three Coloradans Now Use AI, Microsoft Report Finds—But Rural Users Are Left Behind
Microsoft’s latest AI adoption figures reveal that 32.3% of Colorado’s working-age population used generative AI tools in early 2026—a number that surpasses the national average of 31.3% and...
Nvidia’s AI Windfall Hits $100B: Vera Rubin, Windows AI, and Your Next GPU
Morgan Stanley has doubled down on Nvidia as its top semiconductor pick, reaffirming a $288 price target after a meeting with CEO Jensen Huang, as the chipmaker’s AI revenue rockets toward an...
SpaceX's Starmind: Why Orbital AI Compute Won't Displace Azure or AWS
SpaceX is exploring a satellite constellation dedicated to AI processing, and the concept already has a name: Starmind. But if you're worried about your Azure or AWS investment suddenly becoming...