Topic: tech infrastructure
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Amazon Slashes 14,000 Corporate Jobs in Major Layoffs
Amazon is cutting 14,000 corporate jobs to streamline operations and redirect investments toward artificial intelligence initiatives, marking its second-largest layoff round after 2022. The company is heavily investing in AI infrastructure, with $55.6 billion spent in the first half of the fiscal...
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OpenAI Plans AI Chip Launch in 2026
OpenAI is developing its own AI chips, set to launch in 2026, to reduce reliance on external suppliers and improve cost efficiency for its AI systems. The company has partnered with Broadcom to design these chips, with a major $10 billion order aligning with OpenAI's needs, indicating a significa...
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Datacurve Secures $15M to Challenge ScaleAI
Datacurve raised $15 million in Series A funding to provide high-quality, specialized data for AI training, with backing from investors including professionals at DeepMind and OpenAI. The company uses a bounty system to engage software engineers in creating complex datasets, focusing on user expe...
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Germany’s Uniper bets €5bn on data centres to fuel AI boom
Uniper, the German state-rescued energy utility, is pivoting to invest €5bn ($5.7bn) through 2030 in data centre infrastructure and the power supply to run it, marking a shift from traditional energy markets to digital infrastructure. The strategy bundles energy generation, grid services, and sit...
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Mysterious Bot Traffic Floods the Web
A mysterious surge of bot traffic, primarily originating from China and Singapore, has been targeting diverse websites globally, drastically distorting analytics data. The bot activity is widely believed to be linked to companies harvesting public web data to train artificial intelligence models,...
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Intel backs $3.3bn glass-substrate plant in India’s Odisha
Intel is investing $3.3 billion in a glass-substrate manufacturing plant in Odisha, India, in partnership with 3D Glass Solutions, marking a major advancement for India's semiconductor packaging ambitions. Glass substrates offer superior thermal and electrical properties over traditional material...
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