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The explosion of investment in AI-powered data centres is creating serious bottlenecks in global supply chains. The warning came from Chey Tae-won, chairman of SK Group – a South Korean conglomerate that includes SK Hynix, one of the leading suppliers of key memory chips. “I believe that these rapid changes … ultimately
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Amazon has announced its largest investment to date in the Netherlands, committing €1.4 billion (US$1.63 billion) to develop operations over the next three years. This signals that the giant is taking seriously a market where it has been overshadowed by a local leader since launching in 2020.
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The Mondelez conglomerate (MDLZ) is investing more than $40 million in a proprietary generative AI tool, with the goal of dramatically cutting marketing production costs. Savings on marketing content are expected to be between 30% and 50%. The project, which has been in development since last year in partnership with
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SoftBank’s decision to approve the next tranche of funding for OpenAI, topping up a mammoth $30bn investment, is much more than just capital news. It is a symbolic end to the first romanticised era of artificial intelligence. The key news lies not in the amount itself, but in the
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The race to build a functional quantum computer has entered a new stage. IBM has announced a major breakthrough in error correction that solves one of the fundamental problems of the technology. Crucially, the solution is based on widely available components, which could dramatically accelerate commercialisation. The problem with quantum
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When Chinese state-owned defence giant Norinco unveiled the P60, an autonomous combat support vehicle, in February, the key element was not the armour, but its decision-making system. Capable of autonomous operations at 50 km/h, the vehicle was powered by a language model from DeepSeek – the technological pride of China’
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DXC Technology and Microsoft ‘s study ‘The Trust Report : From Risk Management to Strategic Resilience in Cybersecurity‘ involved more than a hundredcybersecurityexperts from four continents. The results show unequivocally: the Zero Trust model is becoming the cornerstone of data protection, but only a small proportion of organisations are fully utilising
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Euphoria flooded the market after Intel’s latest results. Shares soaring 90% by 2025, quarterly earnings per share of 23 cents (instead of the expected 1 cent) and gross margins of 40% look like the return of the king. Investors, buoyed by the AI-PC hype and a fresh injection of
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Intel significantly beat analysts’ expectations for third-quarter profit as a direct result of the “drastic cost-cutting measures” implemented by its new CEO, Lip-Bu Tan. In response to the results and strategic investments, the company’s shares surged nearly 90% in 2025, recovering from a 60% decline last year. It was
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We are witnessing a profound polarisation of the technology market On the one hand, we are seeing segments with exponential growth. Huge investments are flowing towards building specialised computing centres for artificial intelligence. These are driven by strategic pressure and fear of losing competitiveness. On the other hand, fundamental business
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In the landscape of Industry 4.0, where data has become the most valuable raw material, digital twin technology is emerging as a key part of the transformation. It is no longer a futuristic concept, but a strategic necessity whose importance is confirmed by the market. Valued at a dozen
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In the digital economy, company boards have become accustomed to thinking of cyber security in terms of a technological arms race. We invest in ever-higher walls, more modern firewalls and more advanced artificial intelligence, believing that these make up our resilience. This is a costly error of perception. The brutal