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Philosopher Paul Virilio once said: ‘The invention of the ship means the invention of maritime disasters’. In the context of the current rapid wave of AI adoption, this statement takes on existential significance for business. AI has ceased to be merely a tool for innovation; it has become a fundamental
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In the global race for dominance in the field of artificial intelligence, investments in infrastructure are reaching astronomical levels. Market giants such as Microsoft, Google and AWS are committing billions of dollars to expand AI-optimised data centres. For enterprises, this intense competition translates into unprecedented availability of advanced models and
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Microsoft closed the first quarter of its 2026 fiscal year with a result that, on the one hand, shows that the engines driving its growth – cloud and artificial intelligence – are working, but on the other hand highlights cost and infrastructure challenges. Revenues reached USD 77.7 billion, an increase of
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On Tuesday, Apple briefly joined the elite club of $4 trillion companies, becoming the third US tech giant – after Nvidia and Microsoft – to cross that threshold. Although the share price (briefly reaching US$269.89) fell slightly before the session closed, pushing the capitalisation to US$3.99 trillion, this
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Amazon is preparing to cut up to 14,000 corporate positions, representing nearly 10% of that portion of its workforce. According to three people familiar with the matter, the wave of layoffs – the largest since the end of 2022 – is expected to start as early as Tuesday. The move is
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SAP, Europe’s largest software provider, made a formal, non-public takeover bid for US company BlackLine in June for $4.5 billion. According to information obtained by Reuters, the offer was rejected, but SAP is not giving up and is considering resuming talks. The deal, if it goes through, would
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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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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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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