China put 10 U.S. industrial suppliers on an export control list and excluded 46 companies from government procurement, answering the Pentagon’s latest 1260H designations of Chinese technology firms.

#export controls #technology policy #China

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AI Data Center Debt Puts Big Tech Back Under The Bond Market

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AI Data Center Debt Puts Big Tech Back Under The Bond Market

CNBC says the AI infrastructure race is making large technology companies more sensitive to rates, with hyperscalers projected to deploy $750 billion this year and debt markets funding part of the buildout.

#AI infrastructure #debt markets #hyperscalers

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NVIDIA’s 45-Degree Cooling Push Turns AI Factories Into A Water Test

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NVIDIA’s 45-Degree Cooling Push Turns AI Factories Into A Water Test

NVIDIA says its Rubin-generation AI infrastructure can run closed-loop liquid cooling at up to 45 degrees Celsius, cutting the need for chillers and water as denser AI factories put facility design under pressure.

#AI infrastructure #liquid cooling #Nvidia

June 22, 2026Read More →

Blackwell’s MLPerf Run Puts AI Training Bottlenecks At Rack Scale

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Blackwell’s MLPerf Run Puts AI Training Bottlenecks At Rack Scale

NVIDIA says Blackwell led MLPerf Training 6.0 across all seven benchmarks, with submissions scaling to 8,192 GPUs and GB300 NVL72 training up to 1.6x faster than GB200 NVL72 at the same scale.

#AI infrastructure #NVIDIA Blackwell #MLPerf Training

June 22, 2026Read More →

India’s AI Startups Turn Enterprise Demand Into A Hiring Premium

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India’s AI Startups Turn Enterprise Demand Into A Hiring Premium

Indian AI startups are hiring faster than the broader startup market as enterprise deployments move beyond experiments, with recruitment firms pointing to higher mandates and pay premiums for hands-on AI deployment skills.

#India AI startups #enterprise AI #AI hiring

June 22, 2026Read More →

Equinix HK6 Links Hong Kong AI Capacity To Shenzhen’s Innovation Corridor

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Equinix HK6 Links Hong Kong AI Capacity To Shenzhen’s Innovation Corridor

Equinix has opened the first phase of HK6 in Hong Kong, adding 1,000 cabinets, direct-to-chip liquid cooling and a private low-latency link to the Hong Kong-Shenzhen Innovation and Technology Park.

#Equinix #Hong Kong #AI infrastructure

June 22, 2026Read More →

MiTAC’s 52U AI Rack Shows How Dense Compute Is Becoming A Cooling Product

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MiTAC’s 52U AI Rack Shows How Dense Compute Is Becoming A Cooling Product

MiTAC used Computex 2026 to show a 52U liquid-cooled AMD Instinct MI355X rack with 96 accelerators, Broadcom 800Gbps Ethernet switching and a Nidec CDU rated to move 200kW of heat.

#AI infrastructure #liquid cooling #MiTAC

June 22, 2026Read More →

ADCCI And Presight Put Sovereign AI Into Abu Dhabi SME Workflows

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ADCCI And Presight Put Sovereign AI Into Abu Dhabi SME Workflows

ADCCI and Presight are piloting agentic AI for Abu Dhabi SMEs, with more than 102,000 registered firms in the Chamber network and a roadmap to scale beyond the first cohort.

#sovereign AI #agentic AI #SMEs

June 22, 2026Read More →

KDDI’s Osaka AI Data Center Turns Liquid Cooling Into A Power Test

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KDDI’s Osaka AI Data Center Turns Liquid Cooling Into A Power Test

KDDI is moving liquid cooling into an Osaka AI data center after a 2023 immersion test cut server cooling energy use by 94 percent and lowered PUE to 1.05.

#AI infrastructure #liquid cooling #energy for AI

June 22, 2026Read More →

Coherent Texas Expansion Puts AI Optics Into The Compute Bottleneck

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Coherent Texas Expansion Puts AI Optics Into The Compute Bottleneck

Coherent has broken ground on an expanded Sherman, Texas facility for indium phosphide optics, backed by a $50 million CHIPS Act grant and NVIDIA’s $2 billion strategic investment.

#semiconductors #AI infrastructure #silicon photonics

June 22, 2026Read More →

Santander Opens AI Access To 185,000 Staff As Banking Automation Faces Its Scale Test

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Santander Opens AI Access To 185,000 Staff As Banking Automation Faces Its Scale Test

Santander is giving all 185,000 employees access to AI tools after reporting €35 million in first-quarter value, but wider automation in fraud, KYC, payments and voice channels still has to prove governance at scale.

#fintech #banking AI #enterprise AI

June 22, 2026Read More →

Adani And Jabil Turn India’s AI Data-Center Push Into A Hardware Test

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Adani And Jabil Turn India’s AI Data-Center Push Into A Hardware Test

Adani Group and Jabil plan to manufacture high-density AI racks, cooling systems and power equipment in India, but their data-center hardware roadmap still lacks a definitive launch timeline.

#AI infrastructure #data centers #hardware manufacturing

June 22, 2026Read More →