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DCP28 Feb 2026
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Cloud Giants to Exceed Ireland’s 2026 GDP on AI Investments
Leading cloud companies are significantly upping their investments in AI infrastructure, fueling a rising demand for AI development and deployment. This move has exacerbated existing memory shortages. Market analyst TrendForce projects that global cloud heavyweights such as Google, Amazon, Meta,…
DCP27 Feb 2026
AMD Invests in Nutanix to Enhance AI Capabilities
AMD has entered a strategic partnership with Nutanix, investing $250 million to drive forward an AI-focused project. Under this agreement, AMD will acquire $150 million in Nutanix shares and allocate $100 million towards developing an AI infrastructure platform, facilitating integration…
DCP27 Feb 2026
AI Chip Firms Secure Huge Investment Quickly
This Tuesday, AI chip startups secured over a billion dollars in funding, proving that investor enthusiasm remains strong despite AI bubble fears. Leading the charge is MatX, a startup launched in 2022 by former Google engineers Reiner Pope and Mike…
DCP26 Feb 2026
AI’s Impact on Phone Resale
Smartphone manufacturers often highlight the benefits of AI, but there’s growing concern these features may undermine resale value. UK-based Compare and Recycle states that the Samsung Galaxy S25 depreciated by 63% in one year. This bucks the trend of gradually…
DCP26 Feb 2026
Intel Supports SambaNova’s $350M AI Challenge
AI infrastructure innovator SambaNova has secured $350 million to propel its dataflow architecture forward, presenting it as a competitive alternative to conventional GPU-driven AI systems. The investment includes participation from Intel Capital, dismissing rumors of an acquisition by Intel. Other…
DCP25 Feb 2026
Altman Challenges AI’s Energy Critics
Sam Altman, CEO of OpenAI, believes criticism of AI’s energy usage is disproportionate. He argues that human civilization has consumed massive resources over millennia, often ignored in comparisons with artificial intelligence. Speaking at the AI Summit in India, Altman emphasized…
DCP24 Feb 2026
HDDs Vanish Amid AI Boom
The surge in AI infrastructure demands has led to a complete sell-out of hard drives for the year, with hyperscale companies capturing the entire stock. Leading manufacturers like Seagate and Western Digital report their production capacities have been fully allocated…
DCP21 Feb 2026
Reliance Jio’s Ambitious AI Expansion with $110 Billion Investment
Reliance Jio, India’s leading telecom operator, intends to invest $110 billion in building robust AI infrastructure. Since its inception, Jio has revolutionized India’s telecom sector by providing affordable services that quickly gained market dominance. The company now aims to replicate…
DCP21 Feb 2026
Google’s Bold Geothermal Dive
With the exponential increase in data center energy demands, brought on by the AI surge, tech companies are seeking creative solutions to prevent their energy-intensive operations from reaching energy constraints. One potential solution lies just beneath the Earth’s surface. This…
DCP20 Feb 2026
AI Revives Enterprise Storage
Artificial intelligence has long simplified stories: models grow, GPUs accelerate, and storage fades into the backdrop. In initial AI projects, most budget allocations went into computing, followed by networking, leaving storage as a minimal consideration. This was practical when early…
DCP20 Feb 2026
GOV.UK Chatbots: Polite But Unreliable
The Open Data Institute (ODI) has conducted an extensive study revealing that artificial intelligence chatbots often provide excessively verbose responses when addressing questions related to government services. Researchers assessed responses from 11 large language models (LLMs) to over 22,000 inqu
DCP20 Feb 2026