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The number of data centers in China is surging thanks to AI , just like in the U.S. But unlike the U.S., China is racing to power them with clean energy. A data center in Mongolia , for example, is connected to 200 megawatts of wind power, 100 megawatts of solar power, and 45 megawatts of battery storage. In remote Qinghai, a pilot data center runs fully on a solar microgrid. In another part of northern China, a data center is connected to 500 megawatts of solar and 1.5 gigawatts of wind power.

Research shows AI delivers real business outcomes only when organizations align their data, governance, and priorities across teams—not just when they adopt new tools.

Unlike the U.S., China is making clean energy a core part of its AI infrastructure buildout.

Research shows AI delivers real business outcomes only when organizations align their data, governance, and priorities across teams—not just when they adopt new tools.

Unlike the U.S., China is making clean energy a core part of its AI infrastructure buildout.

Research shows AI delivers real business outcomes only when organizations align their data, governance, and priorities across teams—not just when they adopt new tools.

Unlike the U.S., China is making clean energy a core part of its AI infrastructure buildout.

Research shows AI delivers real business outcomes only when organizations align their data, governance, and priorities across teams—not just when they adopt new tools.

Venture capital investments exceeded R16 billion over the last decade, with AI emerging as the next major growth driver for South African start-ups.

As the memory chip shortage persists, budget smartphone makers are taking the hardest hit, with analysts warning that low-priced handsets have become “impossible to manufacture” profitably. The cost of memory for handsets priced under US$100 is expected to surge 400 per cent in the third quarter of 2026, with the bill of materials for the most common configuration reaching US$70 from just US$14 in the same period last year, according to data from research firm Omdia. Current memory prices have..

inDrive aims to ensure e-hailing industry regulation doesn’t impact the market economics to the point of excluding drivers.

Nvidia , Microsoft and other tech heavyweights made a public ‌case to lawmakers on Friday in favor of open-source AI models, wading into a debate roiling the business and policy worlds over who ...

Top executives at leading Western AI companies are increasingly warning about the safety and national security risks posed by Chinese open-weight frontier models. What they tend not to mention is that these models are improving rapidly and, because they are freely available, pose a serious threat to Western labs’ business models. The most powerful models from U.S. labs such as OpenAI , Anthropic , and Google DeepMind are closed, meaning the parameters that shape their outputs are kept secret. Ge

Mobix Labs, Inc. (Nasdaq: MOBX) today announced that it has signed a definitive agreement to acquire Vision Aerial, Inc., a U.S.-based designer and manufacturer of American-built, National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA)-compliant unmanned aerial systems.

Airbus selected Scaleway as its sovereign cloud provider after a tender that scored protection against non-European extraterritorial legislation alongside technical capability. Airbus frames it as complementing multi-cloud, not exiting AWS. Practitioners note the pattern is spreading past hyperscalers to small US SaaS vendors, and that sovereignty claims still require verifiable controls. By Steef-Jan Wiggers

Wema Bank is the first commercial bank to distribute Duplo's software. The move reflects an emerging pattern across Africa's financial services industry in the past three years: banks and payment networks partnering with fintech startups to offer their business customers software they want, without building it themselves.

MetaX, a Chinese maker of graphics processing units (GPUs), has confidentially filed for a listing in Hong Kong, according to people familiar with the matter. The Shanghai-based company was targeting an initial public offering (IPO) by the end of this year, according to the sources, who asked not to be identified because the information was confidential. MetaX was working with Huatai International Financial Holdings on the potential share sale, the people said. The company did not immediately...

States are in a tough bind as they contemplate how to address childcare needs. The extra federal money from the pandemic era is gone just as they are trying to swallow higher spending and cost shifts mandated by the One Big Beautiful Bill Act, which Republicans passed last year. Some states have pulled back on […]

Visa, a global leader in digital payments, and Lianlian DigiTech Co., Ltd., an AI-native global financial infrastructure provider, today announced the first live B2B agentic transaction completed using LoopXPay, Lianlian’s AI agent.

“I think it should stand for artificial idiot,” one 9-year-old says. Here’s why kids of all ages are calling AI “disgusting” and “creepy.”

Washington and the technology industry are on high alert this week after OpenAI revealed that some of its AI agents went rogue and hacked into the systems of technology startup Hugging Face. The incident bore out years of warnings from the tech and cybersecurity community about the growing capabilities and hypothetical risks artificial intelligence could...

Hello again, and welcome back to Fast Company ’s Plugged In . Last week, I attended an Nvidia media event that included a field trip to an undisclosed location in Silicon Valley—a building without any identifying signage. Though hundreds of racked GPUs were chugging away at real AI tasks inside, Nvidia calls the facility an “engineering superlab” rather than a data center. Among the AI being crunched during our visit: a test version of OpenAI’s GPT model optimized for Nvidia’s new Vera Rubin pla

SVP of editorial content at US political site Bill Sammon on new subs offering. The post The Hill subscriptions aimed at helping ‘superfans’ to ‘geek out’ with journalists appeared first on Press Gazette .

In this week’s Startup Corner is Lexidesk, a fast-growing legal AI startup tackling one of the most persistent challenges facing smaller law firms: capturing and qualifying new business. Founded in […] The post Start Up Corner: Lexidesk, an AI receptionist for law firms appeared first on Legal IT Insider .

The British AI Security Institute and the U.S. Center for AI Standards and Innovation tested Moonshot AI's Kimi K3 on offensive cyber tasks. Kimi K3 scored 32 percent on ExploitBench, compared with 76 percent for leading U.S. models, while its safeguards failed to block exploit development or simulated attacks. The gap between its strong general benchmark scores and weaker cyber performance also fits allegations that Moonshot AI distilled Anthropic's models. The article Kimi K3 trails frontier U

When oil prices change, it affects your energy costs—and even the price of everyday items. Here’s why.

A host of U.S. hotel operators ​and online travel platforms are set to release second-quarter earnings starting next week, and investors ‌will weigh optimism from a FIFA World Cup boost against ...

The mayors of Charleston, South Carolina, and Boise, Idaho, make the case for investing in the improvement and innovation of local government.

The contract adds to existing Salesforce deployments for suicide prevention, health care communications and more.

The post How Videos Helped Me Uncover Abuse at an Arkansas Private School appeared first on ProPublica .

In an era in which autonomous AI agents are capable of hacking at scale, cyber security teams face challenges of increasing risk and complexity, says Picus Security.

Reporters at Jantar Mantar protests allege that Delhi Police has deployed vans with CCTV cameras at both ends, capturing protesters and identifying them using facial recognition technology. The post Delhi police use CCTV surveillance for live facial recognition at Jantar Mantar protests appeared first on MEDIANAMA .

When the U.S. Commerce Department ordered Anthropic on June 12 to immediately prevent all foreign nationals from using the artificial intelligence company’s two most advanced large language models, Anthropic disabled its Claude Fable 5 and Mythos 5 models within hours, making them inaccessible to everyone . The company had little choice. The letter, citing national security concerns , barred access by all foreign nationals, including Anthropic’s own noncitizen employees. With no way to immediate

The Vaal University of Technology modernises specialist teaching laboratories and a postgraduate space at its Vanderbijlpark campus.

In a time of belt-tightening and America’s protein obsession, pork should be on a winning streak. It’s cheap compared with beef, which is climbing to record high prices, and it’s the type of clean ...

Let’s not start picking out uniforms just yet. The chorus calling for a Cyber Force continues to grow by the day, but the debate has its priorities backward. In June, an amendment from Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand (D-NY) calling for the creation of a cyber service within the Department of the Army failed in the Senate Armed Services Committee by a single vote. Support is popular on both sides of the aisle, with Rep. Pat Fallon (R-TX) quoted as saying that a “Cyber Force is inevitable.” The highly ant

3 Programmatic Accreditors Withdraw From Federal Recognition jessica.blake@… Fri, 07/24/2026 - 03:00 AM Education Under Secretary Nicholas Kent said the withdrawals relate to the Trump administration’s higher standards. But at least one accrediting group disputes that. Byline(s) Jessica Blake

Turning Apprenticeships Into Degrees Joshua.Bay Fri, 07/24/2026 - 03:00 AM Michigan’s apprenticeship-credit initiative helps working adults apply job training toward an associate degree and future education. Byline(s) Joshua Bay