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Artificial Intelligence

Dude, AI’s Getting a Dell (Server)

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The rising AI tide continues to lift all tech boats. And we mean all tech boats, even somewhat forgotten giants like Dell.

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Energy

Nuclear Is Here To Save AI. But What About Your Energy Bills?

A nuclear boom is directly downstream from the AI boom, with $350 billion in nuclear spending in the US planned by 2050, per Bloomberg.

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Artificial Intelligence

OpenAI Powers Up With Massive Deal for AMD Chips

OpenAI will put the chips to work in data centers that’ll power the staggering compute ChatGPT needs to remain everyone’s favorite therapist.

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Semiconductors

Nvidia Gives Intel a $5 Billion Helping Hand

Unfortunately for Intel, the deal does not provide a direct lifeline to its floundering chipmaking foundry business.

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CIO Upside

How OpenAI’s Partnership With Oracle Could Alter the AI Landscape

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Even for major AI firms, ‘you can’t do it alone.’

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Finance

Barnburner Figma IPO Offers Good Omen as Klarna Reconsiders Debut

The company’s shares soared 250% in their New York Stock Exchange debut, yielding a market capitalization of $47 billion.

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CIO Upside

White House Deregulation of AI Creates Fresh Pitfalls for Businesses

‘Part of the challenge is that (the executive orders) fundamentally misunderstand how the technology works’

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Energy

Amping Up: Harnessing Innovation and Efficiency to Modernize the US Power Grid

The current surge in energy demand is virtually unprecedented since the mass effort to electrify America immediately following World War II.

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Energy

Low Battery: ‘Heat Dome’ Exposes Cracks in America’s Decaying Power Grid

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Rising temperatures and massive new data centers are providing a massive stress test for the US power grid.

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CIO Upside

Neuromorphic Computing May Make AI Data Centers Less Wasteful

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The technology is garnering interest for its energy-saving benefits.

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CIO Upside

Intel Patent Overheats Data Centers For ‘Energy Harvesting’

Intel is far from the first company to consider new methods to power up data centers

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CIO Upside

Microsoft’s Data Center Pullback Raises Questions About AI Infrastructure Boom

“People are freaked out. And with uncertainty comes cautiousness with capital-heavy investments.”

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Technology

CoreWeave’s First Day of Trading Highlights Fizzling AI Enthusiasm

Markets were left with no gains, no losses and a lot of questions about where the artificial intelligence boom is headed.

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