Key Takeaways: Oracle’s cloud expansion has produced an unusually large indicator of future demand: $638 billion in remaining performance obligations, or RPO, at the end of fiscal 2026. The total increased by $500 billion from a year earlier and now exceeds Microsoft’s roughly $627 billion and Alphabet’s approxima
Key Takeaways: South Korea is moving generative AI from a consumer subscription product toward something closer to national digital infrastructure. Its "AI for Everyone" initiative is designed to give roughly 52 mil...
Key Takeaways: Mistral AI has secured €3 billion, about $3.3 billion to $3.5 billion, in a Series D funding round led by Samsung Electronics. The transaction values the French foundation model developer at more than €21 billion after the investment, equivalent to roughly $24 billion. The financing is being describ
Key Takeaways: Cardinal Robert W. McElroy used a Labor Day Mass in Washington to challenge business leaders, policymakers and labor representatives to address a difficult uncertainty surrounding artificial intelligence: whether technological progress will leave enough meaningful work for people. “Will there be mea
Key Takeaways: Hedge funds should map identity, data, endpoint, retention, and audit requirements to Microsoft 365 Business Premium, E3, or E5, then decide whether internal staff, a managed services provider, Netsko...
Key Takeaways: The Australian Taxation Office has finalised a contentious tax ruling that could significantly increase the Australian liabilities of Amazon, Google and Netflix, particularly where revenue from software, cloud computing and streaming services is booked offshore. Released on Friday, the ruling addres
Key Takeaways: Demand for data center services is accelerating as artificial intelligence, cloud adoption and enterprise digitalization place heavier operational requirements on computing infrastructure. MarketsandMarkets projects that the global services for data center market will rise from USD 115.94 billion in
Key Takeaways: The Persian Gulf’s largest AI infrastructure programs are moving forward despite a sharp rise in the physical risks surrounding data centers. Humain, backed by Saudi Arabia’s Public Investment Fund, plans to seek an initial $2.5 billion from global and domestic investors to finance data center devel
Key Takeaways: Clayton Sherlock, who spent 16 years caring for patients at Osawatomie State Hospital, is challenging the proposed location of Project Catalyst, a large data center campus planned just a few hundred yards from the taxpayer-funded psychiatric facility. The Alcove Development project has expanded in p
Key Takeaways: Insurers can optimize mobile device management by linking risk-based policies to identity and testing field workflows. That lets administrators restrict a lost, shared, rooted, or outdated adjuster ta...