Author: zar
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OCI Launches RTX PRO GPUs
Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) has launched bare-metal compute instances powered by NVIDIA’s RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell GPUs, marking a pivotal step in unifying AI acceleration, real-time rendering, and simulation on a single platform. These BM.GPU.RTXPRO.8 shapes pack 144 Intel Xeon 6 CPU cores (up to 4.4GHz turbo), eight GPUs with 96GB GDDR7 memory each, 3TB…
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Huawei Enters Auto Market
Huawei’s Strategic Expansion: A New Era of Innovation The recent launch of the Huajing S, a 6-seat SUV co-developed by SAIC-GM-Wuling and Huawei, marks a significant milestone in the company’s strategic expansion into the automotive sector. This move is not just a diversification of Huawei’s product portfolio but a deliberate attempt to leverage its technological…
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Greece Puts AI Under Human Control
As Greece enshrines artificial intelligence’s subservience to human welfare in its constitution, the birthplace of democracy signals a pivotal moment in the global AI race. Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis has proposed amendments mandating that “artificial intelligence shall serve the freedom of the individual and the prosperity of society, ensuring that risks are mitigated and that…
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Musk Sought Control
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman’s courtroom testimony that Elon Musk once proposed handing control of the AI pioneer to his children underscores a bitter rift at the heart of artificial intelligence’s most influential lab. In a federal trial now entering its third week, Altman defended OpenAI against Musk’s lawsuit accusing him of “looting a charity” by…
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Microsoft Wins Partner Award
At Red Hat Summit 2026, Microsoft earned the Platform Modernization Partner of the Year award, spotlighting Azure Red Hat OpenShift as the secure backbone for production AI workloads at institutions like Banco Bradesco, Latin America’s largest bank by assets. This isn’t mere recognition; it’s proof that jointly managed Kubernetes platforms can unify governance across 200+…
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Nvidia’s AI Edge
Nvidia’s AI Dominance: A Moat in the Making The concept of a “moat” in business refers to a company’s unique competitive advantage, and for Nvidia, that moat is increasingly being recognized as its software capabilities, particularly in the realm of artificial intelligence (AI). As Jensen Huang, Nvidia’s CEO, calls it, CUDA (Compute Unified Device Architecture)…
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Samsung Faces $15M Lawsuit
Samsung’s Turbulent Week: Lawsuits, Updates, and the Future of Tech Dua Lipa’s $15 million lawsuit against Samsung for using her likeness to sell TVs without permission has sent shockwaves through the tech industry, highlighting the complexities of intellectual property rights in the digital age. This development comes as Samsung is expanding its AI capabilities with…
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Apple’s RCS Encryption
Apple’s RCS Encryption Breakthrough Ushers in a New Era of Cross-Platform Privacy In a pivotal move that bridges the long-standing divide between iOS and Android ecosystems, Apple and Google have initiated the beta rollout of end-to-end encrypted (E2EE) RCS messaging, starting May 11, 2026. This development transforms Rich Communication Services (RCS)—the modern successor to SMS—into…
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Google Cloud Unveils AI Breakthroughs
Google Cloud Ushers in the Agentic AI Era at Next ’26 At Google Cloud Next ’26, the spotlight fell on two game-changing announcements: GKE Agent Sandbox for ironclad isolation of untrusted AI agent code and GKE Hypercluster for orchestrating up to a million accelerator chips from a single control plane. These moves cement Kubernetes—powered by…
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AWS Intros Autonomous AI Agents
AWS Ushers in Autonomous AI Agents with Payment Capabilities Imagine an AI agent seamlessly subscribing to real-time market data mid-analysis or procuring web content without human intervention—that future arrived this week with Amazon Bedrock AgentCore’s preview of managed payment features. In partnership with Coinbase and Stripe, these capabilities allow agents to connect wallets like Coinbase…