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The Trump administration is reportedly preparing to roll back several Biden-era restrictions on semiconductor exports.- OpenAI is looking to bring its Stargate project across the world, after it unveiled a new scheme designed to help nations of the world build out their own sovereign AI infrastructure.
- Aligned Data Centers has revealed a strategic partnership with Lambda, the AI Developer Cloud, to support next-generation AI infrastructure at its latest facility in Dallas-Fort Worth.
- Lumen Technologies and IBM have joined forces to bring enterprise-grade AI to the edge, integrating IBM’s watsonx platform into Lumen’s Edge Cloud infrastructure.
- Polish data centre operator Beyond.pl is set to launch an ‘AI factory’ providing sovereign services for the central eastern European market via Nvidia’s Blackwell hardware.
- OpenAI has restructured its for-profit arm into a Public Benefit Corporation (PBC), a move the company says will help secure long-term funding while keeping its nonprofit parent firmly in control.
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- Meta’s all-out AI assault looks set to continue as the tech giant raised its annual capital expenditure forecast up to $72 billion as it accelerates data centre investments.
- Microsoft is looking to push past the headlines that it's scaling back on data centre projects, with the firm committing to ongoing expansion with a more nuanced approach to pacing and regional adjustments.
- Khazna Data Centers is set to expand to expand into Türkiye, with plans to build a 100MW site in the capital, Ankara.
- Huawei has launched its new AI Data Lake Solution at the 4th Huawei Innovative Data Infrastructure (IDI) Forum, held on April 29 in Munich. The solution is aimed at helping enterprises accelerate AI adoption through robust data infrastructure.
- While the headlines focus on multi-gigawatt hyperscale projects, enterprise-focused developers are seeing a dramatic shift in customer expectations and deployment models.
- The Open Compute Project Foundation (OCP) and the Ultra Accelerator Link (UALink) Consortium have announced a new partnership to accelerate the development and integration of high-performance interconnects for AI and high-performance computing (HPC) workloads.
- Vodafone has moved to automate and upgrade its customer service operations, enlisting AI tech from ServiceNow to provide better support for corporate clients.
- NTT Data has teamed up with OpenAI to bring ChatGPT Enterprise to Japan and to jointly create new AI agent offerings.
- Investment firm Stonepeak has launched a new hyperscale data centre platform, Montera Infrastructure, backed by a $1.5 billion equity commitment.
- Intel is preparing to announce sweeping job cuts affecting over 20% of its global workforce, according to a Bloomberg report citing sources close to the matter.
