Meta has announced Petal, a subsea cable that will connect the United States to France from 2029. Its capacity is meant to be double that of today's best systems, to carry the growing data traffic driven by AI.
This white paper describes how edge AI and physical AI could let cities go beyond passive monitoring and act on real-time conditions in public safety, mobility and infrastructure. It argues that processing at the edge cuts latency, keeps sensitive data local and reduces reliance on central cloud systems.
After stock crashes and Firmus's cancelled IPO, industry executives expect only seven to ten of the hundreds of AI cloud providers to survive. CoreWeave has lost a quarter of its market value and Microsoft dropped a deal with Nscale for 23,000 Nvidia chips, a risk for Nvidia since customers outside the hyperscalers make up 45% of its data center revenue.
Apple has published research on Minions, a system that pools unused GPU resources across clusters of Apple Silicon Macs to run AI inference. The idea is not new, but the work builds on existing approaches and further positions the Mac as an AI machine.
n8n explains how small businesses can run common AI jobs, such as drafting emails, summarizing calls, reading invoices or searching their documents, on an NVIDIA DGX Spark machine. The local setup suits firms that cannot send customer data to a cloud API, often for privacy reasons.
Google says its AI data center in Minnesota will add clean energy to the grid and protect ratepayers. Experts question whether the grid upgrades are really needed.