‘I do think we always have to think about, maybe even worry a little bit about, Chinese subsidies’: Microsoft President says US firms should get ready for more competition from China

Chinese state subsidies give AI companies cost advantages globally, forcing US firms to invest in infrastructure, tools, and developing markets.
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How a mature API management strategy can help eliminate agentic blind spots

Without governance and oversight, agentic AI will create security blind spots that derail AI initiatives.

Amazon cans a major warehouse robotics project — but Blue Jay will live on, with new robots set to come soon

Amazon’s Blue Jay robotics project ended quickly, but Vulcan demonstrates advanced dual-arm AI handling.

OpenAI celebrates 10 years of existence — but how has it lived up to its promise of AGI which ‘benefits all of humanity’?

OpenAI officially launched as a non-profit 10 years ago, and it’s come a long way

A new era for storage? Researchers crack world record for smallest QR code, which could be “indefinitely” durable and require no energy or cooling

There’s a new Guinness World Record for the smallest nanoscale QR codes, promising durable, energy-free storage at massive densities.
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‘No one deploys AI at Meta’s scale’: Meta signs up Nvidia to power its next big AI projects — so what exactly do Mark Zuckerberg and Jensen Huang have planned?

Meta partners with Nvidia to deploy millions of GPUs and CPUs, building scalable, privacy-focused AI infrastructure for global applications.
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‘What we really wanted was Mike’: How Mike Markkula was Apple’s first true master marketer before Steve Jobs and wrote the business plan that made Apple a Fortune 500 company

How Mike Markkula transformed Apple from garage experiment into the business that reshaped personal computing.

Microsoft’s latest glass storage breakthrough promises to hold data for 10,000 years — but will Project Silica shatter under the pressure?

Microsoft’s Project Silica explores storing data in borosilicate glass with millennia-long durability, but speed and practicality issues cast serious doubts.
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Keeping the human touch in tech: what over-automation gets wrong

As AI scales across IT services, removing human judgement risks brittle systems, rising costs, and eroding customer trust.
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Google’s ‘America-India Connect’ is filling in the last gaps for a truly global subsea cable network

Google’s America-India Connect strengthens subsea networks across continents and enables high-capacity AI infrastructure.
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