Nscale’s announcement that it will expand UK AI infrastructure in collaboration with Microsoft, NVIDIA and OpenAI marks a significant acceleration in the country’s bid for sovereign, large-scale AI compute — a move that blends private hyperscale investment with geopolitics, national industrial...
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Alibaba’s Cloud Intelligence business is no longer an experimental bet — it is the engine powering the company’s reacceleration, but sustaining that advantage will demand flawless execution across infrastructure, monetization and geopolitics.
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Alibaba reported that its Cloud...
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The news is buzzing from the Lone Star State—a staggering deployment of 64,000 Nvidia Blackwells is slated for the new Stargate AI Data Center in Texas. This massive order, reported by insideHPC, signals not just an expansion in high-performance computing but also a marked acceleration in the...