Infrastructure
Data centres, interconnect, cloud platforms and the systems that host AI at scale.
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DeepSeek open-sources Ascend ports of its core kernel libraries
DeepSeek has put MIT-licensed Huawei Ascend ports of its matrix-multiplication and expert-routing kernels on GitHub, with utilisation figures it has measured itself.
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Samsung puts $1bn into Helix, the AI infrastructure venture run by AWS’s former boss
Samsung Electronics and five affiliates are backing Helix Digital Infrastructure with $1bn, a bet that the bottleneck in AI is power and…
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NVIDIA launches open agent safety platform, with Anthropic on board
NVIDIA’s OpenShell sandboxes AI agents in software, and its Sentry design watches them from hardware they cannot reach.
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AWS ports DeepSeek’s DeepEP to its own fabric for MoE training
Amazon’s upstream work moves DeepEP off CUDA-specific RDMA, and it reports 40 percent more rollout throughput across 48 instances.
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Nvidia starts qualifying batteries and coolers for AI sites
Nvidia’s new DSX Ready programme certifies batteries and cooling units for AI sites. One category is reviewed by Nvidia, the other self-attested.
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EU adopts a sustainability rating for data centres above 500kW
Brussels has adopted a rating scheme for data centres above 500kW, with first labels due in 2027 and a consultation on minimum…
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Perplexity replaces its search backend with an in-house engine
Photon cut estimated cost per task by 68%,, Perplexity says, and it labels its own latency figures self-reported.
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Databricks adds central control for coding agents
Admins get one place to set which coding agents, models and tools developers use, and what they may spend. All the savings…
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OpenAI rebuilds prompt caching for GPT-6
Cheaper reuse of repeated context, a 30-minute cache window, and two pages from the same publisher that state the discount differently.
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Google says its private cloud AI will start remembering you
Private AI Compute drops its stateless design for encrypted, with no product, no date and an unnamed audit firm.