Tag: geopolitical factors
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The Register: Huawei lays out multi-year AI accelerator roadmap and claims it makes Earth’s mightiest clusters
Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2025/09/18/huawei_ascend_roadmap/ Source: The Register Title: Huawei lays out multi-year AI accelerator roadmap and claims it makes Earth’s mightiest clusters Feedly Summary: On the same day that fellow Chinese giant Tencent says its overseas cloud clientele doubled Chinese tech giant Huawei has kicked off its annual “Connect” conference by laying out a plan to…
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The Register: AWS closes China AI research center, citing boilerplate ‘business priorities’
Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2025/07/24/aws_closes_shanghai_ai_lab/ Source: The Register Title: AWS closes China AI research center, citing boilerplate ‘business priorities’ Feedly Summary: Nvidia’s Jensen Huang just had a win with his argument that the world needs China’s AI brains, now this Amazon Web Services has closed its AI lab in Shanghai, China.… AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary:…
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Slashdot: The Startup-Filled Coder ‘Village’ at the Heart of China’s AI Frenzy
Source URL: https://slashdot.org/story/25/07/06/2045246/the-startup-filled-coder-village-at-the-heart-of-chinas-ai-frenzy?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed Source: Slashdot Title: The Startup-Filled Coder ‘Village’ at the Heart of China’s AI Frenzy Feedly Summary: AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The text discusses China’s efforts to build an independent AI supply chain in response to U.S. technological dominance, highlighting the challenges faced by startups in the Liangzhu area. It underscores…
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Slashdot: US Plans AI Chip Curbs on Malaysia, Thailand Over China Concerns
Source URL: https://slashdot.org/story/25/07/04/1644224/us-plans-ai-chip-curbs-on-malaysia-thailand-over-china-concerns?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed Source: Slashdot Title: US Plans AI Chip Curbs on Malaysia, Thailand Over China Concerns Feedly Summary: AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The text discusses the Trump administration’s plans to restrict shipments of AI chips from companies like Nvidia to Malaysia and Thailand, aiming to prevent semiconductor smuggling into China. This move…
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The Register: Tariffs and trade turmoil driving up cost and build times for datacenters
Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2025/07/03/tariffs_and_trade_turmoil_driving/ Source: The Register Title: Tariffs and trade turmoil driving up cost and build times for datacenters Feedly Summary: Biz needs AI infra for training ever larger models, but something’s gotta give World War Fee Datacenter operators in Northern Europe say US tariffs and growing global geopolitical instability are inflating costs and causing…
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The Register: Pulsant and Nine23 offer sovereign service for UK govt, regulated sectors
Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2025/06/18/pulsant_nine23_sovereign_cloud/ Source: The Register Title: Pulsant and Nine23 offer sovereign service for UK govt, regulated sectors Feedly Summary: Amid growing unease that US may compel cloud providers to hand over European data Capitalizing on the new interest in sovereign cloud, UK datacenter biz Pulsant has teamed up with Nine23, a firm specializing in…
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The Register: Poll of 1,000 senior techies: Euro execs mull use of US clouds
Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2025/05/28/uk_execs_cloud/ Source: The Register Title: Poll of 1,000 senior techies: Euro execs mull use of US clouds Feedly Summary: IT leaders in region eyeing Amercian hyperscalers escape hatch Amid the economic uncertainty of Trump 2.0, dependence on American tech has become a growing concern for many businesses, and a survey of 1,000 IT…
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The Register: Stargate to land its first offshore datacenters in the United Arab Emirates
Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2025/05/23/stargate_uae/ Source: The Register Title: Stargate to land its first offshore datacenters in the United Arab Emirates Feedly Summary: Says it will serve half of humanity but testing that claim produced a hilarious ChatGPT fail Stargate, the Open AI led consortium that aims to build giant AI datacenters, has picked the United Arab…
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The Register: Russia’s Fancy Bear swipes a paw at logistics, transport orgs’ email servers
Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2025/05/21/russias_fancy_bear_alert/ Source: The Register Title: Russia’s Fancy Bear swipes a paw at logistics, transport orgs’ email servers Feedly Summary: 13 govt agencies sound the alarm Russian cyberspies have targeted “dozens" of Western and NATO-country logistics providers, tech companies, and government orgs providing transport and foreign assistance to Ukraine, according to a joint government…