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Microsoft Pushes Custom AI Chips with Azure Maia 300
Microsoft unveiled Maia 300, its third-generation AI chip, as Maia 200 goes live, powering Copilot.
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One Agent Development Kit, five languages
When we talk about agents, that doesn't necessarily mean we're talking about Python. In today's modern ecosystem, an agent might run as a high-concurrency Go microservice on Cloud Run, or live inside a browser tab calling Chrome's on-device model. Yet…
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NTT to build $6.3bn data center for Anthropic in Japan - report
Sources say talks are in the "final stages"
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Microsoft unveils Azure Maia 300, says chip will be its “primary inference system”
Meanwhile, Maia 200 has already been deployed across multiple geographies
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VivoPower starts construction at 42MW Mo i Rana data center in Norway
To spin off 2.2GW non-Nordic AI data center portfolio into a new listed firm
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Arvica Cloud plans liquid-cooled modular data center in Queensland, Australia
Edge data center will be deployed in Swanbank
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Most high-severity cloud security findings are downgraded once an AI agent checks the environment
Cloud security platforms turn every failed rule into a finding, and those findings pile up in queues sorted by severity. Research from Sola Security tested what happens to that order when each finding gets checked against the environment where it…
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Announcing AWS Lambda Web Functions
AWS Lambda Web Functions is a serverless compute primitive that runs your HTTP framework natively, delivering fast, consistent responses through multi-concurrent execution and automated global distribution.
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DCD Studio: AVK's billion dollar investment into energy solutions, with Ben Pritchard, AVK
Seb Moss speaks with Ben Pritchard of AVK about meeting data center power demands via microgrids, innovative pod factories, and creative financing backed by a $1B investment.
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SWI raises €800 million for data center expansion
Funds to support projects in the US and Europe
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FiveNines Group and Nexus Core Systems partner on 20MW data center in Morocco
Data center will be located outside of Casablanca
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Trusted Data Apps for the Agentic Data Cloud, powered by Looker
As a business intelligence user, this probably sounds familiar: Most dashboards only provide you with a standardized canvas and a fixed library of charts, and the “analysis” consists of a CSV export that takes you to another system. Or sometimes…
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The overlooked impact of India's new data center policy
How will it impact investment and buildout in the country?
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US DOE funds 12 projects under Genesis Mission; cloud providers sign up to support effort
AWS and Crusoe among those to offer compute capacity
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Deep dive into Azure Maia 300 architecture
Maia 300 operates as a single platform to meet the demands of cloud-scale agentic inference. The post Deep dive into Azure Maia 300 architecture appeared first on Microsoft Azure Blog.
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Orcadian Energy terminates data center agreement for North Sea gas field - report
Non-exclusive agreement signed with US digital infrastructure developer back in July
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Serverfarm tops out first data center at Arkansas campus
Building to offer 108MW across 300,000 sq ft
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North America data center report: Midyear 2026
Navigating historic growth and community acceptance
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Virginia Tops AI Data Center Readiness Ranking as Smaller Markets Advance
TRG DataCenters’ August 2026 ranking places Virginia in the lead, while states with abundant power, low-carbon electricity, and favorable water conditions gain ground.
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Strands Box: Open-source sandbox for AI agents
AWS released Strands Box, an open source sandbox for AI agents that pairs operating-system isolation with rules that can weigh what an agent has already done before letting it act again. Box is in developer preview and runs on Macs…
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