AI Infrastructure & LLMs
Large language models, AI assistants, data centres, AI chips, cooling, optical networks and the power systems behind modern artificial intelligence.
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Google’s AI Is Targeting the White Trails Behind Planes
Cathay Pacific and Google are expanding AI contrail avoidance trials. The research explores whether modest altitude changes can reduce warming from aircraft trails.
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Waiting for Nvidia’s RTX 6000? Here’s What AMD Is Building
AMD’s next Radeon generation could give gamers another reason to delay their next upgrade. Its work on AI graphics, Xbox and PlayStation reveals the direction—but launch dates, prices and a winner remain unconfirmed.
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Your Laptop Screen Is Too Small. Lenovo’s New One Unrolls.
Lenovo’s Project Swan expands from a 14-inch laptop screen to 17 inches. The concept tackles a familiar problem: carrying less without working in a cramped space.
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Your Next Gaming PC May Be 1,000 Kilometres Away
Nvidia’s GeForce NOW can stream RTX 5080-class PC gaming to an old laptop, television, phone or tablet. It is the closest cloud gaming has come to replacing expensive hardware—but the games, internet connection and 100-hour limit still matter.
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NEXTDC Plans to Spend A$5.75 Billion Building the Rooms Where AI Lives
AI may feel like invisible software, but it runs inside enormous, power-hungry buildings. Australian data-centre operator NEXTDC has tripled its contracted capacity—and now faces a multibillion-dollar race to construct and energise it.
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The Bitcoin Miner Turning Itself Into an AI Landlord
Core Scientific once made most of its money mining Bitcoin. Now long-term deals with CoreWeave and AMD are transforming its power-hungry sites into infrastructure for the AI boom.
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When Is Nvidia’s GeForce RTX 6000 Series Coming? The Honest Answer
Nvidia has not announced its next generation of consumer graphics cards. An older leak points to late 2027, but later supply-chain reporting and a newer rumour make 2028 the more realistic expectation.
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Qwen 3.8 vs gpt-oss vs Llama 4: Which Open-Weight AI Can You Actually Run?
Downloadable AI models promise more privacy and control, but Qwen 3.8, OpenAI’s gpt-oss and Meta’s Llama 4 differ sharply in hardware, media support, licensing and usable context.
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GPT-5.6 vs Claude Opus 5 vs Gemini 3.7 Flash vs Grok 4.6: Which AI Fits Which Job?
The leading AI models now differ as much in price, speed, tools and media support as they do in raw reasoning. Here is an evidence-led comparison of four major API models—and why there is no universal winner.
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Anthropic’s Reported $45 Billion Nscale Lease: What 460MW of AI Compute Really Means
Anthropic has reportedly agreed to a six-year, $45 billion compute lease at Nscale’s Monarch campus in West Virginia. Here is what the reported 460MW figure means—and what remains unconfirmed.
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Why Lidl’s Owner Is Spending €5.6 Billion on a Giant AI Data Centre
The company behind Lidl and Kaufland plans a 240-megawatt data centre in northern Germany, with a possible path to one gigawatt. The move shows how AI infrastructure is becoming a strategic asset far beyond traditional technology companies.
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Microsoft Sank a Data Centre in the Sea—And It Became More Reliable
Microsoft’s Project Natick sealed servers beneath the sea and reported far fewer failures. The experiment worked—but commercial underwater clouds remain uncertain.