Students at a tech university in Dublin are enjoying an unexpected perk of artificial intelligence — it’s helping heat their campus. Since 2023, the Technical University of Dublin’s Tallaght campus has been one of a growing number of buildings in the southwest suburban area of the city to be heated by waste heat from a…
The Tencent logo is displayed on the exterior of a building at the company’s headquarters, with a surveillance camera visible in the foreground, on November 30, 2024, in Shenzhen, Guangdong Province, China. Cheng Xin | Getty Images News | Getty Images Tencent plans to expand its data center footprint in the Middle East, a top…
LEDs light up in a server rack in a data center. Picture Alliance | Picture Alliance | Getty Images Price rises and memory shortages are likely to continue through 2027, a top semiconductor industry CEO told CNBC, adding to the view that the crunch that’s been caused by the AI infrastructure boom may last longer…
Chinese officials are reviewing Meta’s $2 billion acquisition of AI startup Manus for possible technology control violations, FT reported on Tuesday. Sopa Images | Lightrocket | Getty Images Meta Platforms is set to test new subscription models across its apps, including Instagram, Facebook and WhatsApp in the coming months, according to a report from TechCrunch…
The Microsoft data center campus, currently under construction, is reflected in Mount Pleasant, Wisconsin, September 18, 2025. Audrey Richardson | Reuters Local officials have signed off on Microsoft’s plans to build 15 more data centers in Mount Pleasant, Wisconsin, near an existing site that the technology company is expanding. Additional data center capacity will allow…
Nvidia on Monday revealed another $2 billion investment in neocloud poster child CoreWeave — the latest in a continuing effort by CEO Jensen Huang to support companies that are enabling what he calls the “five-layer cake” of the artificial intelligence buildout. Monday’s announcement is aimed at helping AI infrastructure company CoreWeave develop more than five…
Arthur Mensch of Mistral AI, Jensen Huang CEO of Nvidia, on stage at Vivatechnology, in Paris, France on June 11, 2025. (Photo by AUGUSTIN PASQUINI/Hans Lucas/AFP via Getty Images) Augustin Pasquini | Afp | Getty Images Nvidia has become something of an AI kingmaker as hyperscalers rush to build out AI capacity. It’s also got…
TikTok users have been deleting the app at a higher rate since the company announced that its U.S. operations would be housed in a new joint venture. The short-form video platform’s daily average app uninstalls in the U.S. have increased nearly 150% over the past five days compared with the previous three months, market intelligence…
There’s a new Chinese model gaining buzz among developers: Zhipu AI’s GLM 4.7. That in itself is not new, but what did catch our attention was where it’s becoming popular: the U.S., our own turf. I first spotted Zhipu’s post on WeChat, announcing that the new coding tool was seeing so much demand, it would…
Demonstrators gather on Michigan Avenue during a heavy snowstorm to protest against U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and Customs and Border Protection (CBP) in Chicago, US on January 25, 2026. Jacek Boczarski | Anadolu | Getty Images Some tech leaders are beginning to speak out after the shooting of ICU nurse Alex Pretti in…