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Nvidia claims 10x cost savings with open-source inference models

Nvidia has released analysis showing a 4X to 10X reduction in cost per token for AI inferencing by switching to open source models. The cost reductions were achieved by pairing Nvidia’s Blackwell GPU platform with open-source models from Baseten, DeepInfra, Fireworks AI, and Together AI. Their tests showed significant cost improvements across healthcare, gaming, agentic chat, and customer service. […

💰 10X Cost Per Token 📈 4X Inference Expenses ⚡ 5X Throughput Boost

FTC digs deeper into Microsoft’s bundling and licensing practices

The US Federal Trade Commission (FTC) seems to be doubling down on its investigation of Microsoft and the tech giant’s potentially shady bundling and licensing practices. According to a Bloomberg report, the federal agency has been issuing civil investigative demands (CIDs) to companies that compete with Microsoft in the business software and cloud computing markets. CIDs are powerful, subpoena-like mandates…

🌐 24% Cloud Market Share 📈 $110B Annual Revenue 📈 33% Productivity Dominance

Nokia predicts huge WAN traffic growth, but experts question assumptions

Nokia’s 2023 Mobile Networks report projects wide area network (WAN) traffic to explode by 25-30% compound annual growth rate (CAGR) through 2030, potentially reaching 10 times current levels. This bold forecast attributes the surge to escalating demands from AI applications, 5G proliferation, and cloud migrations. For network engineers grappling with bandwidth constraints, this means rethinking...

📈 25-30% Annual CAGR 📈 10x Traffic by 2030 📈 45% Expert Agreement

Musk’s million data centers in space won’t fly, say experts

SpaceX’s Starlink constellation already boasts over 6,000 satellites in low Earth orbit, processing petabytes of data daily for global internet access. Yet, Elon Musk’s latest vision—deploying a million data centers in space to handle surging AI workloads—has drawn sharp skepticism from aerospace and computing experts. Announced amid Earth’s data center capacity crunch, where AI training...

🤖 30% AI Power Consumption 💰 2-3x Orbital Cooling Costs 📈 $500T Feasibility Barrier

Nvidia: Latest news and insights

Nvidia’s market capitalization surged past $3 trillion in June 2024, making it the world’s most valuable company briefly, driven by explosive demand for its AI accelerators. This milestone underscores the company’s pivotal role in powering data centers worldwide, with its GPUs handling over 80% of the AI training workload according to recent industry analyses. For...

📈 $3T Market Cap Peak 🤖 30x AI Training Speed 🤖 80% AI Workload Share

Energy providers seek flexible load strategies for data center operations

Data centers worldwide guzzled 460 terawatt-hours of electricity in 2022, equivalent to the annual consumption of entire countries like Australia, according to the International Energy Agency. This surge, driven by AI workloads and cloud computing, is pushing energy providers to innovate with flexible load strategies that optimize power usage without compromising performance. For network engineers...

📈 460 TWh Annual Consumption 💰 30% Operational Costs 📈 50% Carbon Emissions

Drones to Diplomas: How Russia’s Largest Private University is Linked to a $25M Essay Mill

Investigators uncovered a staggering $25 million essay mill operation tied directly to Synergy University, Russia’s largest private higher education institution with over 50,000 students enrolled annually. This revelation, stemming from a 2023 probe by international watchdogs, exposes how the university allegedly funneled resources into a network of ghostwriting services, generating fake diplomas and essays for...

📈 $25M Essay Mill Revenue 📈 30% Plagiarism Spikes 💰 70% Forgery Reduction

Intel: Latest news and insights

Intel reported $12.7 billion in revenue for Q1 2025, holding steady compared to the previous year. This flat performance masks a mixed bag: the client computing group saw an 8% decline, while the data center and AI segment surged 8%, fueled by strong Xeon processor volumes. For network engineers and IT leaders, these figures signal...

📈 $12.7B Q1 Revenue 📈 8% Data Center Growth 📈 8% Client Revenue Drop

Intel teams with SoftBank to develop new memory type

Intel announced a groundbreaking collaboration with SoftBank in September 2023, targeting the development of a new memory type designed to address escalating demands in AI-driven data centers. This partnership leverages Intel’s chip manufacturing expertise and SoftBank’s Arm architecture ecosystem to create hybrid memory modules that promise 2x faster data access speeds compared to traditional DRAM....

⚡ 2x Data Access Speed 💰 40% Latency Reduction 📈 25% Power Consumption

Orchid Security Introduces Continuous Identity Observability for Enterprise Applications

In the fast-evolving landscape of cybersecurity in 2026, identity-based attacks have surged to unprecedented levels, making robust identity management a non-negotiable priority for enterprises. According to recent reports from Gartner, identity threats now account for over 80% of breaches, with attackers exploiting weak access controls to infiltrate networks. This spike is driven by the proliferation...

📈 80% Identity Breach Share 💰 40% Response Time Reduction 🤖 150% AI Threat Increase