Nvidia says Kazakhstan's AI ecosystem is moving from infrastructure plans to deployment, with announcements spanning infrastructure, models and applications. The country's supply of accelerated computing is growing along with demand for what comes next.
Worries over data center and chip costs drove AI stocks sharply lower on Thursday, dragging markets down worldwide. The S&P 500 lost 1.2% and the Nasdaq 2.6%, even though most US stocks outside tech actually rose.
Google is introducing Agent Compute Engine, a runtime built specifically for AI agents that isolates each one in its own micro virtual machine. It is also broadening governance tools so companies can manage agents across cloud, hybrid and on-premises setups.
In a Latent Space interview, Modal CEO Erik Bernhardsson discusses elastic GPUs, the growth of sandboxes and the economics of cloud infrastructure for AI agents.
Liquid AI has released RIPL, an inference engine built for real-time use of its LFM models. On a single B200, LFM2.5-1.2B running on RIPL showed 14.4 to 28.4 times lower p95 latency than Qwen3.5-0.8B on vLLM, according to the company.
Bull and Czech operator ČRA have signed a memorandum of understanding for an AI Gigafactory in the Czech Republic. The project, a candidate for the EU program, aims to provide sovereign AI to Central and Eastern Europe.