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It looks like intense lobbying by big tech companies and criticism from the US administration is bearing fruit. The European Commission is considering relaxing some of the provisions of its landmark Artificial Intelligence Act (AI Act), which could give valuable deferral to players such as Apple and Meta. The move
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Jensen Huang, CEO of Nvidia, has finally dashed hopes for the company’s rapid return to China’s advanced AI chip market. During his fourth visit to Taiwan this year, Huang categorically denied that there were “any active discussions” about selling Blackwell’s flagship chips to China. His comments cut
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China’s AI ‘little dragon’, DeepSeek, has returned to the scene after almost a year’s public absence – but its message was far from industry optimism. At the government’s World Internet Conference in Wuzhen, the company’s senior researcher, Chen Deli, gave a surprisingly pessimistic assessment of the long-term
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Amid sharp falls in global tech stocks, the head of the World Economic Forum (WEF) is toning down the mood. Borge Brende, during a visit to Sao Paolo, pointed to three potential, related bubbles on the horizon: cryptocurrencies, sovereign debt and, crucially for the IT sector, artificial intelligence. Brende’s
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The recent theft of the crown jewels from the Louvre in Paris has revealed a problem much deeper than just physical gaps in security. The IT sector’ s attention was drawn to reports of fundamental negligence in cyber security that had been ignored for years at one of the world’
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The growing demand for computing power for artificial intelligence is clearly translating into financial performance for infrastructure providers. Iron Mountain, a company historically associated mainly with the secure storage of physical documents, showed strength in this segment. The company beat Wall Street’s estimates for its key earnings indicator for
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IBM is embarking on the next phase of its strategic transformation with the announcement of job cuts this quarter. The company confirmed that the layoffs will involve a low single-digit percentage of the global workforce, which, with a headcount of around 270,000 at the end of 2024, could mean
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DeepL was for years that atypical German challenger: an inconspicuous office in Cologne, almost no marketing, one function understood by every CIO and every location-based company on earth – translations better than Google. On this one pillar, it has managed to build a company worth $2bn. (May 2024 round valuation), more
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AWS and OpenAI are again – formally – intertwining fortunes on many billions of dollars and millions of CPUs. There are several axes of tension around AI today: who controls compute, who closes deals with GPU manufacturers, who builds the hyperscale datacenter and who will be the beneficiary of the next wave
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There is one thing the industry agrees on: agent-based AI is the biggest functional leap since the first big language models. What can be said with equal certainty today is that most companies are completely unready for it. Palo Alto Networks, after speaking to 3,000 European business and security
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Cisco and NVIDIA are clearly positioning themselves at the centre of the hardware debate about what AI infrastructure should look like in practice after an era of early implementations. The San Jose-based company showed off the N9100 switch, the first data centre switch based on NVIDIA’s Spectrum-X chip and
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OVHcloud is strengthening its presence in Eastern Europe. Grzegorz Soczewka, the new VP Sales for Eastern Europe, has been in charge of sales development in the region since the beginning of November 2025. It’s a move that can be read more broadly: Europe’s largest cloud provider no longer