Following Microsoft's Surface Laptop Ultra, MSI has unveiled a laptop with Nvidia's RTX Spark chip, promising strong local AI performance. The Prestige N16 Flip AI+ is a convertible with an OLED touchscreen and a stylus.
The French state has granted €20 million from its France 2030 plan to a consortium of Cloud Temple, Thales, Bull, Vates and the CEA. By the end of 2028, the partners are to build a French cloud and AI offering for hosting sensitive data.
ZDNet reviews VZmore's AX9 Max, a compact PC aimed at people who need strong performance for running AI tasks locally but have little space.
Ukrainian drones have damaged a data center belonging to Yandex, often called Russia’s Google. The facility housed supercomputers used to train Yandex’s AI model.
Seismora is developing networking technology to coordinate AI workloads across providers and computing environments. Its control plane would help applications decide whether a task runs on a device, at the edge or in the cloud.
Data from a16z points to a Jevons paradox: token prices keep falling while H100 GPU rental prices hold steady or rise, as cheaper AI drives demand faster than costs drop. If that demand levels off, the whole chain from chipmakers to cloud providers would be hit.