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The UK government is deploying Google Cloud generative AI to automate council planning operations, aiming to reduce application decision timelines by 50 percent. The Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government and the Department for Science, Innovation and Technology are using two machine learning tools, 'Extract' and 'Augmented Planning Decisions', to accelerate municipal processing. These tools will help local planning authorities handle vast volumes of unstructured data, addressing administrative backlogs that delay infrastructure development. The UK central [...]

Microsoft has turned to Amazon Web Services for extra computing power after a string of AI-related outages on GitHub, the platform it acquired for $7.5 billion in 2018. The outages have strained GitHub's compute resources, which have been overwhelmed by a surge in development activity driven by the increasing use of AI to write code faster. GitHub's own blog has detailed how the service has failed to meet its own service level agreements, with an uptime of [...]

Sharon AI has signed a deal with VAST Data to deploy 600 petabytes of software across its sovereign AI cloud infrastructure, one of the largest in Asia-Pacific. The agreement makes VAST Data's AI operating system the main data layer for Sharon AI's infrastructure, serving government, enterprise, research, and AI-focused customers in Australia and the region. The deployment is equivalent to 300 million hours of HD video storage and could support 100,000 graphics processing units. The deal targets [...]

Italy's Competition Authority has launched an investigation into Apple's compliance with the Digital Markets Act's interoperability requirements for cloud storage. The regulator is examining whether Apple allows third-party cloud services to have "free and effective interoperability" with iOS and iPadOS. The investigation focuses on equal access to hardware and software features for third-party providers. Apple is accused of not providing equal footing for third-party cloud services, such as full device data backups. The probe is the first [...]

QuEra Computing announced Libra, a fault-tolerant quantum computer planned for 2028, in collaboration with Amazon Web Services (AWS). Libra will be available on AWS's cloud platform, Amazon Braket, and is designed to deliver over 256 logical qubits, a logical error rate of 10⁻⁶, and approximately one million reliable logical quantum operations. The system builds on QuEra's neutral-atom architecture and a series of peer-reviewed demonstrations in quantum error correction, logical qubits, and fault-tolerant operations.

Jayshree Ullal, the Indian-origin president and CEO of Arista Networks, has emerged as one of the most successful women in the global technology industry. Ranked seventh on the 2026 Forbes America's Richest Self-Made Women list, Ullal has an estimated net worth of USD 6.8 billion. She made a bold move in 2008, leaving Cisco to lead Arista Networks, a small startup at the time. Under her leadership, Arista focused on high-performance networking solutions for cloud providers, proving [...]

WISeKey International Holding Ltd has finalized a commercial agreement between its subsidiaries, SEALSQ Corp and WISeSat.Space Corp, to co-develop and deploy the Quantum Spatial Orbital Cloud (QSOC). The QSOC is a subscription-based managed cloud platform for banking institutions, national defense agencies, and enterprise clients, featuring a 100-satellite low-Earth orbit constellation delivering quantum key distribution, certified quantum random number generation, and post-quantum identity frameworks. The joint venture mirrors the operational division of labor in terrestrial hyperscale data centers, [...]

Amazon Web Services has released its Graviton5 Arm server CPU, which is comprised of four CPU blocks with 48 V3 cores each, totaling 192 V3 cores. The Graviton5 chip is used in new M9g and M9gd instances, offering increased performance and memory capacity. The chip's design features a die-to-die interconnect, allowing for higher memory bandwidth and supporting the CXL 3.0 memory extension protocol. The Graviton5 provides 2.4X more performance per socket compared to its predecessor, the Graviton4, [...]