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A China-linked cyber espionage group has expanded beyond VMware environments to target network and authentication infrastructure that enterprises rely on to manage access and administer critical systems, according to new findings from incident response firm Sygnia . The threat actor, tracked by Sygnia as Fire Ant, targeted Cisco IOS XR routers in 2026, using them to collect network traffic while …

Nvidia is once again making its own parts for AI rather than relying on the rest of the industry to do it. In this case, it has introduced a customized High Bandwidth Memory architecture, NVHBM, that the company says can deliver significantly more bandwidth, lower power consumption and offer more usable silicon area than conventional HBM4E. To be sure, Nvidia will not be making the memory. It doe…

Broadcom announced a new packaged AI infrastructure stack it’s calling the VMware AI Factory today at VMware Explore in Las Vegas. The company also announced a new agent governance platform and an open-source security portfolio. The bet is that companies will want to run their production AI on premises using VMware Private AI Cloud. “The VMware AI Factory is not a separate product nor [does it] c…

Tailscale got its start back in 2019 as a VPN provider based on the open-source WireGuard technology. As it turns out, enabling private connectivity in the AI era has a lot of practical utility. Tailscale raised $160 million last year to expand its WireGuard-based VPN platform and is now pushing well beyond that original VPN pitch with a series of announcements at its Tailscale Up conference last…

The obsession with “bigger is better” AI has led many consumers to assume that more parameters mean better performance. This isn’t always true, particularly for specific use cases. Smaller AI models that can run on the device itself, rather than in the cloud, are a better fit for use cases like translation apps. While your laptop may handle the heavy computational requirements of multi-purpose AI…

Kyndryl and Broadcom on Thursday rolled out new consulting services for VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF), tweaking the initiative to be an AI program and pledging to invest in the skills development of several thousand certified Kyndryl consultants, architects, and delivery specialists to enable agentic workflows. “Against the backdrop of rising sovereignty demands, enterprises are rationalizing the…

When the open-source Kubernetes cloud-native project got started more than a decade ago, AI was not a major concern. Times have changed. Kubernetes 1.37 is now out, extending its networking and scheduling capabilities as more organizations run AI and machine learning workloads on the platform. The new release is the second major update for the platform in 2026, following the 1.36 update that debu…

Intel laid out a broad hardware strategy for the next phase of artificial intelligence at the Hot Chips 2026 show, arguing that the rise of agentic AI will require more than increasingly powerful accelerators. Its previous strategy had been built around CPUs, but now the company is highlighting a multitude of architectures working in tandem and designed to address different layers of the AI compu…

Cisco is partnering with Supermicro to bring the server vendor’s liquid- and air-cooled systems into Cisco’s AI infrastructure portfolio. Specifically, Cisco will begin offering high-density Supermicro compute solutions as part of its Secure AI Factory with Nvidia architecture. Secure AI Factory with Nvidia incorporates a wide range of products, including Cisco Unified Computing System (UCS) serv…

Cisco is continuing to embed identity management capabilities deeper into its product portfolio by teaming with Teleport , a security vendor headquartered in Oakland, Calif., that’s focused on identity-based infrastructure access management. Cisco is investing in and partnering with Teleport as part of its efforts to bring infrastructure identity everywhere, Matt Caulfield , vice president of pro…

Building a business case for moving enterprise workloads to the cloud or even switching cloud providers can itself be a lengthy exercise, requiring enterprises to first understand their existing infrastructure, model potential target environments, and calculate whether the economics of migration make sense. Google is now betting that generative AI can shorten that process. The hyperscaler on Tues…

The semiconductor industry is becoming a trillion-dollar growth engine as AI gobbles up more and more resources. Gartner has slightly increased its forecast for worldwide semiconductor revenue since last quarter, now anticipating it to balloon by 92% over 2025. That would put the market at $1.6 trillion, compared to the firm’s $1.3 trillion prediction just 4 months ago . Perhaps not surprisingly,…

On top of July’s 30% price hikes across almost all of its product lines, Nvidia is reportedly preparing to raise prices of servers, including those powered by Vera Rubin and Grace Blackwell chips, by 15%, due to skyrocketing memory prices. That 15% increase for systems being delivered in early 2027, reported by Bloomberg and other business media, is seen as part of a series of expected price hike…

IBM announced its first dual-architecture mainframe processor that’s designed to allow enterprises to run Arm-native Linux environments alongside z/OS and existing Linux applications on IBM Z. The vendors introduced the new processor at the Hot Chips 2026 conference. The 11-core, 5.7 GHz chip is architected to not contain separate Arm and IBM cores: Each processor core can natively execute Arm an…

Some 78% of cybersecurity jobs now require AI skills—an indicator that AI literacy is quickly becoming a baseline expectation for hiring, according to the AI Workforce Consortium. “Our research found that there are critical gaps in areas such as generative AI, large language models, prompt engineering, AI ethics, and AI security,” the consortium wrote in a new report, AI Agents and the Impact on …