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Cisco Systems is sending a strong signal to the market: the AI revolution is not just the domain of chip manufacturers, but also a fundamental driver for network infrastructure. The company raised its full-year revenue and profit forecasts, which the market immediately rewarded with a significant increase in its stock
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The growing demand for computing power for generative artificial intelligence is forcing a fundamental change in data centre design. Traditional approaches are becoming insufficient in the face of systems scaling to gigawatts. In response to these challenges, Vertiv, a company specialising in critical infrastructure, is strengthening its collaboration with NVIDIA.
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The idea of a 4-day working week , not long ago seen as the almost certain future of the market, is beginning to lose popularity. According to the latest Manpower report “The mood of the Polish labour market”, support for this solution in Poland has fallen. It is currently viewed positively
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BLIK, which dominates the Polish mobile payments market, is embarking on a key test to solve its biggest strategic challenge: the lack of native interoperability outside Poland. The Web Summit 2025 conference in Lisbon showcased the first successful P2P transaction in euros, sent from Portugal’s MB WAY system to
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The enterprise AI agent market is gaining a new, heavily funded player. Wonderful, a startup founded just in early 2025, has announced the raising of a $100 million Series A round. The funding, led by Index Ventures with participation from Insight Partners and IVP, comes just four months after an
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John M. Martinis, a recent winner of the Nobel Prize in Physics (2025) and one of the architects of Google’s breakthrough in ‘quantum supremacy’, is starting a new chapter. This time his goal is not a laboratory record, but the creation of a practical, mass-produced quantum supercomputer. On Monday,
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Intel has confirmed a significant personnel change in its key segment. Sachin Katti, former chief technology officer (CTO) and head of the AI group, is leaving the company to join OpenAI. This is a strategic transfer in the midst of a global war for talent specialising in artificial intelligence. At
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Tuesday’s decision by a court in Munich is a significant signal for developers of generative artificial intelligence and a potential milestone in the dispute over the ‘fair use’ of training data. In a closely watched copyright case, the court sided with GEMA, the German collecting society, against OpenAI. Judge
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SoftBank’s second-quarter financial results show that Masayoshi Son’s desperate pursuit of AI dominance is starting to yield paper profits. The Japanese investment giant doubled its net profit to 2.5 trillion yen (US$16.6 billion), thanks almost entirely to a jump in the valuation of its biggest
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The upcoming peak shopping season, including Black Friday and Cyber Monday, is a harvest time for the e-commerce sector. However, where revenues are expected to be high, so are cybercriminals, for whom it is an equally intense period. This time is also the peak of hacking activity targeting retailers. The
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In the race for ever more powerful language models, the key question of training data quality is returning with renewed force. A study from the University of Texas at Austin, published on the arXiv preprint platform, provides evidence that feeding AI with low-quality content leads to a measurable degradation of
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Denmark wants to be the first country in Europe to cut screen time for the youngest – and it will do so not just with a social media campaign, but with tough regulation. The government has announced a ban on social media for children under the age of 15. Parents will