The explosive growth of AI infrastructure is creating a mad dash for new data center capacity – and more data center staff – unlike anything seen before. Demand for data center capacity could more than triple by 2030 due to growth in AI and other workloads, according to data from McKinsey. Continue reading on Network World.

The severe weather experienced at present in the US has placed significant strain on the airline industry in the country, with knock-on effects of changes to schedules and routes affecting the rest of the world. It’s at times like this that companies have to respond to queries from customers at a much greater rate than

If database technologies offered performance, flexibility and security, most professionals would be happy to get two of the three, and they might have to expect to accept some compromises, too. Systems optimised for speed demand manual tuning, while flexible platforms can impose costs when early designs become constraints. Security is, sadly, sometimes, a bolt-on, with

Anthropic has been selected to build government AI assistant capabilities to modernise how citizens interact with complex state services. For both public and private sector technology leaders, the integration of LLMs into customer-facing platforms often stalls at the proof-of-concept stage. The UK’s Department for Science, Innovation, and Technology (DSIT) aims to bypass this common hurdle

According to Databricks, enterprise AI adoption is shifting to agentic systems as organisations embrace intelligent workflows. Generative AI’s first wave promised business transformation but often delivered little more than isolated chatbots and stalled pilot programmes. Technology leaders found themselves managing high expectations with limited operational utility. However, new telemetry from Databricks suggests the market has

At a glance AI-driven medical image report generation can help medical providers become more efficient and productive. Current models are difficult to train because reporting practices vary widely among providers. Universal Report Generation (UniRG) uses reinforcement learning to align model training with real-world radiology practice rather than proxy text-generation objectives. UniRG has achieved state-of-the-art performance across datasets, metrics, diagnostic

CVector, an AI solution provider for energy-intensive industries, has closed an oversubscribed $5 million seed round led by Powerhouse Ventures. The financing included participation from Fusion Fund, Hitachi Ventures, Myriad Venture Partners, and Schematic Ventures. The New York-based startup plans to use the capital to expand its sales and product development teams. The company will

Compa has closed a $35 million Series B round led by Jump Capital, with participation from Crosslink Capital, Storm Ventures, Permanent Capital, HR Tech Investments LLC (an affiliate of Indeed, Inc.), and PagsGroup. The AI-driven compensation platform is changing how big companies decide what to pay their employees, using a network of nine million real-time

Egypt is once again at the center of Africa’s AI momentum as international technology experts, influential policymakers and startups prepare to convene at Ai Everything MEA Egypt 2026, the world’s first all-AI expo and summit of the year. Announced just four months ago, the event has already mobilised the global AI ecosystem at unprecedented speed,

New Agent Builder cuts time to production by up to 50% and reduces early production issues by 20% Wonderful teams up with frontier AI lab Anthropic to build the foundations for enterprises managing entire networks of agents at scale Wonderful, the enterprise agent platform, today announced the launch of its Agent Builder, an autonomous AI