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Palo Alto Networks has issued patches for its PAN-OS firewall platform after a researcher uncovered a high-severity vulnerability which could be exploited by attackers to cause a denial-of-service (DoS). The flaw, identified as CVE-2026-0227 with a CVSS 7.7 (‘high’) severity rating, affects customers running PAN-OS NGFW (Next-Generation Firewall) or Prisma Access configurations with the company’s…

The data center industry is racing toward a power crisis that technology alone will not be able to solve, according to Uptime Institute’s 2026 data center predictions report. “Critical digital infrastructure continues to expand strongly,” said Andy Lawrence , executive director of research at Uptime Institute, in a statement . “At the same time, our research shows uncertainty about how AI will re…

Dell Technology has updated its PowerStore unified file and block storage array with increased capacity; stronger digital resilience; and simpler file management. The company claims that through these enhancements, organizations can increase storage density per rack unit and reduce total cost of ownership by 15%. Dell stated that its 30TB QLC drive lets customers store up to two petabytes of data…

Google says transmission grid connection delays of up to 12 years have become the biggest obstacle to powering its data centers, highlighting an infrastructure crisis that threatens to constrain cloud capacity expansion as AI workloads surge. Marsden Hanna, Google’s global head of sustainability and climate policy, said Wednesday that “transmission barriers are the number one challenge we’re seei…

OpenAI has signed a multibillion-dollar agreement to buy computing capacity from AI chip startup Cerebras Systems, as the ChatGPT maker looks to secure enough infrastructure to keep pace with surging user demand and mounting pressure on its data center and network resources. Under the deal, OpenAI will use chips designed by Cerebras to run parts of its ChatGPT inference workload, committing to pu…

IBM has launched Sovereign Core, a software stack that aims to offer enterprises and governments full operational control over sovereign cloud deployments without relying on hyperscaler-managed regions. Sovereign deployments, typically, try to combine cloud benefits with strategic autonomy. They are IT infrastructures that have been set up locally, ideally in isolated cloud environments, to ensur…

In what appears to be a case of diplomatic mind games in action, one day after the US government issued a regulation clearing the way for Nvidia to sell its H200 artificial intelligence processors to Chinese companies on a case-by-case basis, a published report has revealed Chinese custom officers have been told not to let them into the country. The ruling announced Monday by the US commerce depa…

There is no shortage of CDN and edge providers in the market today, but more often than not, choosing one provider can lead to platform lock-in. That’s the challenge that IO River aims to solve. Today, the Boston-based startup announced that it has closed a $20 million Series A funding round. The money will be used to accelerate deployment of its multi-edge platform that decouples infrastructure …

Cisco set a high bar for itself in the new year after a prolific 2025. Last year, Cisco refreshed its core switching and router portfolios, adding new software capabilities for the data center in 2025. It also made a number of AI networking moves, including the introduction of the Cisco 8223 , a high-end, 51.2 Tbps router and chip designed for distributed AI workloads. In addition, Cisco expanded…

Chinese company Zhipu AI has trained image generation model entirely on Huawei processors, demonstrating that Chinese firms can build competitive AI systems without access to advanced Western chips. The model, released on Tuesday, marks the first time a state-of-the-art multimodal model completed its full training cycle on Chinese-made chips, Zhipu said in a statement. The Beijing-based company t…

Resource-heavy AI data centers have been facing backlash across the US as big tech is increasingly having to answer to locals irate about skyrocketing power usage and utility rates. Microsoft is angling to get ahead of this and be what it calls a “good neighbor” with its newly-articulated Community-First AI Infrastructure strategy. Notably, the tech giant is promising that it will not cause incre…

Addressing the critical power shortage for AI data centers has made nuclear energy fresh and new again years after it fell out of favor. There is considerable activity among established players like Constellation Energy and startups like Oklo alike. However, a Texas power developer has found an unlikely source for nuclear power plants: retired naval vessels. Bloomberg reported late last year that…

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Meta has elevated AI infrastructure to a top-level strategic priority with the launch of Meta Compute, a new initiative that brings responsibility for building and operating data centers and networks under a single leadership structure. “Meta is planning to build tens of gigawatts this decade, and hundreds of gigawatts or more over time,” CEO Mark Zuckerberg said in a social media post . “How we …

LAS VEGAS — The term “AI factory” came up in multiple keynote presentations, media briefings, and in interviews with executives at this year’s Consumer Electronics Show (CES). (The show took place last week.) And the concept seems to mean different things to different people. “The term is absolutely being used in multiple — and often sloppy — ways right now,” said Alex Cordovil, Dell’Oro Group re…