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Nvidia is scaling back a proposed financial guarantee tied to a massive OpenAI data center project in Ohio, reducing its initial commitment from as much as $250 billion to less than $120 billion, according to report in the Wall Street Journal . Earlier this month, Nvidia announced partnerships with major financial firms including Apollo Global Management, BlackRock, Blackstone, Brookfield Asset M…

Palo Alto Networks and NTT Data have teamed up to deliver what the vendors say could amount to $1 billion in joint AI-focused enterprise security services deals by the end of 2029. The arrangement will combine Palo Alto’s AI-powered cybersecurity platforms—such as its Prisma Cloud, Prisma AIRS, SASE , and next generation firewalls—and its Unit 42 threat intelligence with NTT Data’s consulting, en…

Network architecture expertise is earning premium pay as enterprises grapple with complex infrastructure environments and AI puts new demands on corporate networks. Network architecture earns an average cash pay premium equal to 20% of base salary, according to Foote Partners’ latest IT Skills and Certifications Pay Index . The research firm tracks compensation for 1,417 certified and noncertifie…

Cerebras Systems has unveiled the CS-4, a new rack-scale AI system that can connect its wafer-scale processors across racks without network switches, an approach designed to reduce communication latency as AI infrastructure grows more complex. Cerebras, which competes with Nvidia and other AI accelerator suppliers, said the CS-4 can run up to twice as fast as its previous-generation CS-3. In a te…

As it pursues its goal of producing a fault-tolerant quantum computer, IBM today announced that it has achieved another milestone: It has successfully joined two cryogenic modules to create a single environment designed, it said, “to scale into the modular, shared, and ultra-cold system required to link hundreds of quantum chips into a more powerful quantum computer.” The company plans to deliver…

Google is reportedly working with AMD on the design of a next generation Tensor Processing Unit (TPU) aimed at workloads that increasingly combine artificial intelligence acceleration with conventional computing. According to a number of industry reports, the companies are exploring a hybrid AI accelerator that could integrate CPU cores directly into the TPU processor package. The design would be…

I recently attended a CXO roundtable hosted by Extreme Networks for sports technology executives, and 6 GHz Wi-Fi was one of the hot topics. Given how reliant sports fans are on their mobile devices today, I wasn’t surprised by the interest among sports technology executives in next-generation Wi-Fi. However, sports venues aren’t the only facilities to benefit from 6 GHz Wi-Fi. It’s the first maj…

As data centers evolve into AI factories, compute has shifted from a cost center to a revenue driver. “Compute is revenue,” said Jensen Huang, co-founder and CEO of NVIDIA. “Without compute, there is no way to generate tokens. Without tokens, there’s no way to generate revenue. So, in this new world of AI, compute equals revenue.” This reframe changes an organizations’ calculus. If compute is rev…

IBM will embed OpenAI frontier models and products such as Codex and ChatGPT embedded into IBM’s AI consulting services platform, IBM Consulting Advantage, as well as expanding the companies’ existing collaboration in the cybersecurity realm, they announced Thursday. Joint initiatives will include the creation of industry-specific products for financial services, government, telecommunications, a…

Talk about navigating a crooked path. The judge overseeing the most recent objection to HPE’s $14 billion buy of Juniper Networks approved HPE’s original settlement with the U.S. Department of Justice. “As stated in both HPE’s and DOJ’s filings, the settlement in this case is in the public interest and warranted approval. We are gratified by the judge’s approval of the settlement and are excited …

Google, Microsoft and Nvidia are working through the Open Compute Project (OCP) to establish 800-volt direct current (800VDC) as an open standard for powering the next generation of high-density AI data centers. The three companies are collaborating with the broader OCP ecosystem on common requirements for 800VDC power distribution, including power conversion, power quality, system interfaces and…

Cisco closed out its fiscal year 2026, delivering record Q4 revenue of $17.3 billion (up 18% year-over-year) and bringing full-year revenue to $63.3 billion. While Wall Street quickly zeroed in on the bottom-line expansion and the $7.5 billion FY27 AI infrastructure guidance, IT professionals need to look past the financial headlines. What Cisco’s Q4 FY26 earnings call signaled is a fundamental s…

Cisco is riding a multi-year “networking supercycle” fueled by demand for AI-related hardware and software across its product portfolio, CEO Chuck Robbins told analysts on the vendor’s fiscal fourth-quarter financial call. Accelerating adoption of agentic AI is driving customers to invest in Cisco’s networking stack across cloud, on-premise and edge environments, he said. “We delivered record rev…

Despite significant public pushback, North America’s data center industry is engaging in unprecedented expansion, with more than 66 gigawatts (GW) of capacity under construction as available colocation space remains exceptionally scarce, according to a new report from data center builder JLL. JLL’s North America Data Center Report Midyear 2026 , found that data center vacancy has remained at just…

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More processor coverage on Network World: Intel news and insights | AMD news and insights With its legacy of innovation, Nvidia has become a dominant force in the AI market. Its GPUs have evolved from their gaming roots to power breakthroughs in scientific simulations, data analysis, and machine learning. Follow this page for the latest news, analysis, and features on Nvidia’s advancements and th…

Oracle said it will deploy Quantinuum’s Helios quantum computer inside its cloud infrastructure and provide enterprise customers access through a planned Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) quantum service for hybrid quantum-AI workloads. The companies have forged a multi-year partnership in this regard. The partnership will see Helios installed in a US-based OCI AI data center, where it will suppo…

Nvidia and six financial partners are creating a $500 billion investment pool to help Nvidia customers including frontier AI labs, AI clouds, and other enterprises buy its chips on credit. The impact of such a cash infusion on enterprise AI is uncertain, but analysts fear that it could both further increase enterprise AI infrastructure costs and exacerbate the shortage of AI chips for data center…

IBM has inked a $240 million deal with neocloud provider Together AI to offer a cloud service that will run large capacity, open-source AI inference workloads . The service will be based on a large cluster of Nvidia HGX B300 systems running Spectrum-X Ethernet networking and residing in IBM Cloud. Together AI will then use this cluster to provide open-source model inference services for enterpris…

OVH is increasing the prices of its servers, some by as much as 87%, for both new and existing customers, blaming AI’s insatiable demand driving the rising cost of the RAM and storage it uses in its data centers. The European cloud operator specializes in low-cost bare metal and public cloud offerings. CIOs will be familiar with the balancing act OVH has had to perform over the last year. In a Mo…