Deutsche Telekom's LMOS: what enterprise AI teams actually want from a platform
Arun Joseph at InfoQ describes a real, in-production agentic compute layer: ephemeral agents, an ADL, and a central capabilities catalog.
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Montage starts CXL 3.2 chip production - China gets a second memory-fabric supplier
Shanghai's Montage begins production of CXL 3.2 controllers - the memory-pooling fabric that reshapes AI-server economics gets a second Chinese supplier.
Aug 1, 2026 at 09:40 14 18
KOREN 6.0: Korea rebuilds its national research network as an AI-first, autonomous backbone
The Korea Research Network 6.0 upgrade retires the "gigabit + quantum test" era. It targets 1.6 Tbps backbones, agentic autonomous operations and dedicated AI data-center segments - construction from 2028, completion 2031.
Jul 29, 2026 at 13:00 13 18
Korea's AIDC Alliance formalizes the AI data-center stack around 18.4 GW
MSIT and SK Telecom co-chair a 400-organization alliance built around three divisions - demand, supply, foundation - with an 18.4 GW build-out target. The Korean supercycle gets its industry body.
Jul 29, 2026 at 12:47 15 16
Preferred Networks injects PLaMo 3.0 Prime into Japan's defense planning pilot
Japan's ATLA hires PFN for a defense-planning AI proof-of-concept using PLaMo 3.0 Prime. The Japan AI stack extends from Woven City to the operational rooms of the JSDF.
Jul 29, 2026 at 12:46 14 13
Altman: an AI power monopoly would be a 'long-term disaster'
After the Hugging Face incident, OpenAI's CEO reframes closed AI as a risk vector - spread the capabilities, and the safety bar rises with them.
Jul 29, 2026 at 12:46 8 11
PJM will reduce data center operations to prevent the largest US grid from failing
The operator of the largest US power grid, PJM, is preparing to briefly cut power to data centers to avoid blackouts. The pace of GPU installations is outstripping the grid - rationing is becoming the adjustment.
Jul 28, 2026 at 20:57 9 8
Founders now design for geopolitical fragmentation, not around it - e27 publishes a "3Cs+1" framework
On e27, a founder writes that they stopped trying to scale globally by default. Their new framework - "3Cs+1" - treats geopolitical fragmentation as a first-class product constraint.
Jul 27, 2026 at 10:17 6 6
Nvidia envisage un financement de 250 milliards de dollars pour le centre de données d'OpenAI en Ohio - la dette fournisseur atteint une nouvelle échelle
Nvidia is reportedly discussing up to $250 billion of financing support for OpenAI's Ohio site - an amount that would rewrite what "vendor financing" means at hyperscale.
Jul 27, 2026 at 10:16 7 10
Nuclear-for-data-centers finance structure comes together - how the first SMR-DC deal actually pencils out
e27 reports the deal structure for financing a first nuclear reactor to power a data centre is finally taking shape. The AI power wall meets project finance.
Jul 27, 2026 at 10:13 10 8
"State-owned AI won't solve inequality": Rest of World's bold thesis on AI in the Global South
Rest of World investigates the national AIs launched by several countries in the Global South. The finding is stark: nothing competitive has emerged, and the sovereignty argument masks a repetition of the telecom errors of the 1990s.
Jul 24, 2026 at 21:02 8 12
Data centers to consume 4 times more electricity by 2035 - the projection aligns with the moratoria
A new projection: data center consumption could quadruple by 2035. This is the quantified translation of what NY, Dublin, or grid ops have been saying for six months.
Jul 22, 2026 at 12:41 13 9