Foxconn and Schneider Electric plan joint AI data center reference architectures, pairing AI rack manufacturing with power, cooling and energy-management systems as production begins later this year.

#ai #AI data centers #digital infrastructure

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Tencent Cloud Tests Korea As AI And Gaming Cloud Benchmark

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Tencent Cloud Tests Korea As AI And Gaming Cloud Benchmark

Tencent Cloud is using South Korea as an Asia-Pacific benchmark for AI, gaming and cloud expansion, pairing 66 availability zones across 23 regions with new Korea partnerships and AI products unveiled at Tencent Cloud Day Korea 2026.

#ai #cloud infrastructure #gaming cloud

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AT&S Backs Malaysia AI Substrate Expansion With Customer Commitments

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AT&S Backs Malaysia AI Substrate Expansion With Customer Commitments

AT&S plans a customer-backed Kulim expansion for IC substrates and advanced PCBs, naming AMD as one customer as AI hardware demand moves deeper into the semiconductor supply chain.

#chips semiconductors #science tech #semiconductors

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Zyphra’s Zamba2-VL Tests Hybrid AI For Faster Vision-Language Models

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Zyphra’s Zamba2-VL Tests Hybrid AI For Faster Vision-Language Models

Zyphra released Zamba2-VL, an open-source vision-language model family that uses a Mamba2-transformer hybrid architecture to target lower-latency multimodal inference for documents, OCR, counting and edge AI tasks.

#ai #vision language models #edge AI

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HCLTech-Led Sarvam Round Tests India’s Sovereign AI Scale-Up

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HCLTech-Led Sarvam Round Tests India’s Sovereign AI Scale-Up

Sarvam raised $234 Mn inside a $300 Mn Series B round led by HCLTech, giving the Bengaluru AI startup a $1.5 Bn valuation and more capital for Indian-language models, compute infrastructure and enterprise AI deployments.

#ai #sovereign AI #enterprise AI

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Anthropic Lawsuit Puts Claude Max Usage Limits Under Scrutiny

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Anthropic Lawsuit Puts Claude Max Usage Limits Under Scrutiny

A proposed class action lawsuit alleges Anthropic overstated Claude Max usage limits, turning AI subscription transparency into a product and pricing risk for professional users.

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Telecom Operators Test Whether AI Networks Can Move From Opex Cuts To Revenue

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Telecom Operators Test Whether AI Networks Can Move From Opex Cuts To Revenue

Communications service providers are using generative and agentic AI to automate network operations, but the next test is whether distributed connectivity, edge sites and secure infrastructure can become paid AI services.

#telco connectivity #AI infrastructure #autonomous networks

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Edge And Safran Put UAE Defence Tech Push Into European Partnership Frame

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Edge And Safran Put UAE Defence Tech Push Into European Partnership Frame

Abu Dhabi’s Edge Group and Safran Electronics & Defence signed an agreement in Abu Dhabi to work on air-to-ground weapons systems, with possible expansion into surface-to-air missile work and next-generation smart weapons.

#science tech #defence technology #smart weapons

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AutoVRse Funding Puts India’s Industrial AI Training Stack Under Investor Scrutiny

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AutoVRse Funding Puts India’s Industrial AI Training Stack Under Investor Scrutiny

AutoVRse raised $2.4 Mn from Singularity AMC and Lumikai, giving the India-based AR/VR training startup fresh capital for North America and Europe while it claims more than 50 enterprise customers.

#ai #enterprise training #AR/VR

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China’s Open-Source AI Push Tests The Closed-Model Playbook

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China’s Open-Source AI Push Tests The Closed-Model Playbook

Former Hugging Face Asia-Pacific ecosystem lead Tiezhen Wang said Chinese AI labs are using open releases, licensing changes and cheaper token economics to challenge closed U.S. model strategies without relying only on direct model fees.

#ai #open source AI #China AI

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AI Coding Tools Move From Flat Fees To Usage Budgets

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AI Coding Tools Move From Flat Fees To Usage Budgets

GitHub Copilot, Cursor, Windsurf/Devin and Anthropic pricing moves show AI coding tools becoming metered software, forcing engineering teams to manage agentic development like a cloud cost line.

#ai #AI coding tools #usage based billing

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Singapore AI Job Premiums Show Public Sector Demand Moving Faster Than General Hiring

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Singapore AI Job Premiums Show Public Sector Demand Moving Faster Than General Hiring

PwC’s Singapore AI jobs data shows government and consumer-market roles paying the largest AI skill premiums, while most new AI listings are for users of AI tools rather than model-building specialists.

#ai #AI jobs #workforce upskilling

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