Cisco launches Nexus One, a unified networking platform integrating silicon, software, and security to eliminate data center fragmentation and power AI-scale infrastructure with quantum-safe encryption, real-time GPU visibility, and multi-OS support.
Nvidia is reframing AI as foundational infrastructure — like electricity or the internet — as industry leaders declare the world is witnessing the largest infrastructure buildout in human history, with personalized AI models potentially surpassing the transformative impact of any technology before it.
Apple races to reclaim its AI crown at 50, leveraging a bold Google Gemini partnership and on-device processing to resurrect Siri after squandering a five-year lead in the generative AI race.
Nvidia launches Nemotron 3 Super, a fully open-source 120-billion-parameter AI reasoning model, strategically designed to expand the AI ecosystem, reduce dependence on proprietary AI customers, and ultimately drive greater demand for its GPUs, which already power 90% of generative AI workloads.
Meta CTO Andrew Bosworth urges college students to constantly build projects using AI coding tools and hands-on hardware like Raspberry Pi, stressing that practical experience is essential for breaking into tech as Silicon Valley's talent war for the next generation of AI builders intensifies.
Iranian missile strikes have taken down AWS data centers in Bahrain and Dubai, with Amazon declaring multiple zones 'hard down' and engineers scrambling to migrate affected workloads, while broader disruptions to critical materials flowing through the Strait of Hormuz now threaten the global semiconductor supply chain.
Oracle slashes 10,000 jobs in India — roughly 20% of its local workforce — as part of a sweeping global restructuring affecting 30,000 employees worldwide, with analysts saying the cuts could free up $10 billion to fuel the tech giant's aggressive AI and data centre expansion.
A global 'frugal AI' movement is gaining momentum, delivering small, energy-efficient models that run on cheap, offline hardware to serve communities excluded from mainstream AI, including preserving endangered Indigenous languages using minimal data on sub-$50 devices.
Sandisk drops 26% amid fears over Google's TurboQuant compression algorithm, but with Q2 data center sales surging 64% quarter-over-quarter, margins projected at 65-67%, and a $671 price target suggesting 17-18% undervaluation, analysts say the sell-off is overblown and the stock presents a strong buying opportunity.
Google launches Gemma 4, a new open-weight AI model family with four sizes optimized for both large-scale and mobile use, while switching to the developer-friendly Apache 2.0 license and teasing a next-gen Gemini Nano 4 for smartphones ahead of Google I/O.