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The tech world has been rattled by the toppling of one of its most prominent leaders, and the widespread implications it could have on the AI industry itself. Nvidia, which provides the underlying AI infrastructure for seemingly every company on the planet, announced on Thursday that its president and CEO Jensen Huang has resigned, effective immediately. Earlier this week, news broke that Huang h…

The big Red Hat news at this week’s KubeCon conference in Salt Lake City is the general availability of its agentic AI management tools for OpenShift 5, including an MCP server and an MCP gateway, with MCP support for RHEL and Developer Hub coming soon. Managing AI agents is a top concern for enterprises today as AI models get smarter and more capable. Without adequate controls, they can cause si…

As enterprises race to deploy AI agents and expand AI infrastructure, AMD has launched a new generation of EPYC server processors built to challenge both Intel’s dominance in enterprise CPUs and Nvidia’s ambitions in data-center computing. The 6th Gen EPYC lineup offers up to 256 cores per socket and supports PCIe Gen 6 and DDR5 memory, with AMD touting major gains in performance, efficiency and …

Cisco has added support for Anthropic’s Claude Mythos to its AI Defense package to help enterprise customers more quickly identify AI agent vulnerabilities before potential attackers can exploit them. As AI agents gain more responsibilities and are allowed access to resources such as enterprise databases, applications, credentials and business workflows, that could open a security problem across …

Commvault on Tuesday rolled out its answer to enterprise backup restoration nightmares. Called Recovery Studio, the vendor promised that the product would “orchestrate the recovery of applications, identities, configurations, infrastructure dependencies, and datasets together in an automated, runbook-driven workflow.” Analysts and consultants applauded the effort, agreeing that enterprises today …

To date, AI conversations have centered on GPUs, AI factories, and data centers. At Cisco Live APJC in Melbourne this week, Cisco shifted the focus to the campus, the branch, and the network that connects everything. The opening keynote set a realistic tone for where the industry is. Agents don’t behave like people, and networks built for people won’t hold up when thousands of agents work around …

Oracle has reportedly cancelled a five-year agreement to lease advanced artificial intelligence computing capacity to Chinese technology giant Tencent , following concerns raised by the Trump administration over the deal’s implications for U.S. technology export restrictions. The agreement was estimated to be worth $7 billion. It would have provided Tencent with access to approximately 100,000 ad…

Republicans weren’t the only group taking it on the chin in midterm elections. Data centers and their supporters got positively annihilated at elections across the country. These concerns are reflected in public opinion. The data center development opponents won and won big. A University of Massachusetts Amherst poll cited by Stateline found that just 11% of Americans supported building an AI dat…

AI models are becoming more performant, efficient, and sophisticated by the day; but this can be incredibly taxing for the infrastructure running them. Google Cloud is addressing these growing memory, security, and performance demands with two additions to its eighth-generation tensor processing unit (TPU) portfolio. TPU 8tx is optimized for secure and confidential inference, while TPU 8i Max is …

Residential proxies are often used by bad actors to hide the true source of internet traffic — and now one of them appears to have taken up residence in the White House. The Residential Proxy Observatory , set up by Layer3 Intel to monitor the threat of anonymized network activity, has identified proxy exit activity on one particular network, AS2650, which is registered to the executive office of…

OpenAI has responded to the data center culture war pitting communities against tech companies with a proposal to reduce its power demand during periods of grid strain. The company is also mindful of the bad publicity generated by talk of data centers and has renamed them “compute campuses” in an attempt to make them less scary. This is in line with the recent trend for renaming places like the G…

When Broadcom announced a series of updates to VMware on Wednesday, it quietly added a sentence that extended support and availability options for users in most European countries, attributes not available to the rest of the planet. In a line absent from the document shared earlier with news media, the Broadcom post said that, for customers in countries in the European Economic Area, which is ess…

Growing use of autonomous AI agents could drive a four-fold increase in data center CPU core requirements. CPUs have been declared all but irrelevant in the era of artificial intelligence, but they are receiving a new lease on life thanks to agentic AI creating a new source of demand. According to semiconductor research firm TrendForce , the growing computational requirements of autonomous AI age…

Announcements from IBM and Quantinuum plus a recent acquisition by Intel show that the race to develop a quantum computer has shifted from focusing just on the qubits to integrating these computers with classical systems and software development platforms. To start with, IBM, AMD, and the DOE-funded Quantum Science Center at Oak Ridge National Laboratory are collaborating on a new research platfo…

Zyxel has patched a zero-day vulnerability that attackers exploited to compromise 996 GS1900 network switches across 48 countries, exposing device configurations, network information and hashed root credentials. The attack began around August 17, according to cybersecurity firm GreyNoise, but researchers initially blamed a different vulnerability that Zyxel had already addressed. The newly identi…