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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Megaport’s New AI Deals Put a Price on the Compute Boom
Three new contracts worth about A$978.6 million show the scale of AI compute demand, alongside a substantial hardware and power buildout still to deliver.
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Nvidia Is Building a Safety Boundary Around AI Agents
Nvidia’s new platform puts controls outside the AI agent itself, combining software permissions with a separate hardware watchdog. The goal is to make increasingly capable agents easier to contain.
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Europe Is Giving AI Data Centres an Energy Label
Europe wants every large data centre to show how efficiently it uses electricity and water. The label could expose the real resource cost of the AI boom—but it is transparency, not a consumption cap.
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Alibaba’s New AI Chip Raises the Stakes Beyond Nvidia
Alibaba is building its AI challenge around chips, models and cloud infrastructure. The next test is measurable customer performance.
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Tiny AI Models Are Bringing More Intelligence Inside Smart Glasses
Compressing a model could put more useful AI inside wearable hardware, but battery life and real-world accuracy still need testing.
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Claude Opus 5.5 Turns Up the Pressure on the Cost of AI Work
Anthropic’s latest model puts the economics of completed work in focus, with API pricing and migration details that deserve a closer look.
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Meta Wants Your AI Agent to See Through Your Glasses
Meta’s next AI interface could be the view through your glasses. Turning that view into useful action will put reliability and trust to the test.
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Microsoft’s Quantum Bet Is Facing a Hands-On Reality Check
A new Maryland research centre gives government evaluators access to Microsoft’s quantum hardware. The important milestone is scrutiny, with the outcome still ahead.
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Google Is Taking Its AI Power Problem Into Orbit
Google is preparing a satellite experiment to see how its AI chips cope with space. The result could inform a far larger ambition for orbital computing.
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Microsoft Wants Copilot to Keep Working After You Log Off
Microsoft is moving Copilot towards delegated work, small custom apps and persistent agents. The new features arrive through previews and staged rollouts.
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A Tiny Switch Could Cut the Hidden Power Cost of 6G
Researchers combined two-dimensional switches with radio-frequency chips. The aim is flexible communication hardware that wastes less energy holding its settings.
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Quantum Computing’s Next Bottleneck Might Fit on One CPU
A conventional processor kept pace with simulated quantum error correction. The result tackles a less glamorous obstacle to useful quantum machines.