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AWS says acute server memory shortage is driving customers to the cloud

: When you can't get 'em with a 'transformation plan,' supply chain pain will do the job…

'It’s very unusual for business to grow this fast': Even Amazon CEO Andy Jassy is surprised at AWS cloud success — and AI domination is next

AWS just had its best growth rate in 15 quarters, and at 28%, it's propping up total Amazon revenue by quite a margin.…

Alphabet pops, Meta tanks as each company raises capex spend

Both Alphabet and Meta said they expect their capex to continue growing this year, but investors sent Alphabet's shares up, while Meta's stock slid.…

Microsoft: Everyone Sees CapEx, Few See The Strength In AI Growth

Microsoft Corporation’s AI CapEx is squeezing free cash flow, but cloud demand is accelerating. Click here to read this earnings analysis of MSFT stock.…

Room-temperature multiferroic could pave way to low-energy computing

Zelenskyy says he's seeking details of Putin’s May 9 ceasefire proposal

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy says he's seeking more details about a short-term ceasefire that Russia proposed to U.S. President Donald Trump…

Google, Microsoft, Meta, and Amazon capex spending to hit $725 billion in 2026, up 77% from last year — analyst says bear thesis is 'garbage'

Microsoft's CFO attributed $25 billion of its record capex budget to rising memory chip prices.…

Microsoft Q3: $190B CapEx Looks Scary, But 40% Azure Growth Says Otherwise

Microsoft delivered a strong fiscal Q3, with revenue and EPS beating expectations, while Azure grew 40% year-over-year, outperforming guidance and...…

Microsoft: The Best AI Bet Post Earnings

Microsoft Corporation surged on strong earnings: revenue +18% and Azure +40%. Click for this MSFT earnings update.…

Supreme Court weighs in on Voting Rights Act, Trump and Putin discuss Ukraine and Iran wars

The Supreme Court’s decision on Louisiana’s redistricting map could reshape voting power and impact the upcoming midterm elections. Will it take effect in time for November? Meanwh…

Is tech's AI spending working?

A frenzied day of earnings reports offered a glimpse at how some of the world’s biggest tech companies are doing in artificial intelligence.…

Oracle: Why The Market Ignores A $553 Billion Backlog

Oracle (ORCL) stays a Buy as AI cloud demand fuels a record $553B backlog and rapid growth.…

Trump and Putin Talk, and Ukraine Shrugs

More than a year of similar conversations have failed to bring the country any closer to peace, so Ukrainians have stopped hoping they will.…

Trump and Putin discuss wrapping up Ukraine war without Zelensky’s input

Daily on Defense: Trump wants to end Putin’s war, Zelensky skeptical, as always, Hegseth storms the Hill, U.S. may pull its troops from Germany.…

Alphabet's Blowout Quarter Confirms AI Dominance Is Just Beginning

Alphabet is rapidly transforming from a mature ad business to a dominant AI infrastructure leader. Click here to read an analysis of GOOG stock now.…

Transcribing the Source of the First DOS for the IBM PC

Doing software archaeology can be a harrowing task, as rarely do you find complete snapshots of particular versions of software. Case in point the development of MS-DOS – also know…

Why businesses are shifting from cloud to on-prem amid the agent boom

As AI becomes more embedded, it may be a cost burden for businesses…

I've been running some of the biggest open-weight LLMs for free on Nvidia's cloud

You can use big models for free, though there aren't any promises on speed.…

Amazon Earnings, Trainium and Commodity Markets, Additional Amazon Notes

Amazon’s earnings suggest that the shift away from training towards inference and agents means their bet on Trainium is paying off. Plus, additional notes on ads, agents, and sport…

Trump says he spoke with Putin about a possible ceasefire in Ukraine

President Trump said he talked to Russian President Putin Wednesday about the wars in Ukraine and Iran.…

Scott Aaronson on quantum: "Will you heed my warnings NOW?"

Holy crap … yesterday I was elected to the US National Academy of Sciences! If you don’t believe me, click the link and keep scrolling down until you hit the name “Aaronson.” But ……

Analysis: Meta, Alphabet, Microsoft, and Amazon's combined capex hit a record $130B in Q1 and is projected to reach $725B in 2026, up 77% from $410B in 2025 (Financial Times)

From Financial Times. View the full context on Techmeme.…

Amazon reports increased 1Q profits and net sales fueled by cloud computing demand

Amazon is reporting increased profits and net sales during its fiscal first quarter, helped by surging growth in its prominent cloud computing unit…

Google to sell its TPUs to some customers, who also fancy big-G GPUs

AI is driving more searches and ads Google Cloud will start selling its custom tensor processing units to some customers, because they want them and the search giant wants to diver…

Trump and Putin discuss Ukraine and Iran over the phone

FDA launches a pilot using AI and cloud computing to give the agency a "direct data feed" to real-time clinical data, aiming to shorten drug approval timelines (Frank Konkel/Nextgov/FCW)

Frank Konkel / Nextgov/FCW : FDA launches a pilot using AI and cloud computing to give the agency a “direct data feed” to real-time clinical data, aiming to shorten drug approval t…

SenseTime releases SenseNova-U1, an open-source image model that it says can "read" images without translating them to text, reducing computing power needs (Zeyi Yang/Wired)

Zeyi Yang / Wired : SenseTime releases SenseNova-U1, an open-source image model that it says can “read” images without translating them to text, reducing computing power needs — Wi…

Microsoft, Meta, and Google just announced billions more in AI spending. Only Google convinced investors it’s paying off

Surging prices due to memory chip shortages have led to billions more in capital expenditures from Magnificent 7 companies—and many investors don’t like it.…

Investors still trust Google more than Meta when it comes to spending their money on AI

Alphabet and Meta both boosted their capex guidance in their first-quarter earnings reports, but Wall Street viewed one much more favorably than the other.…

Trump-Putin talk Iran and Ukraine, US energy exports up: here’s what happened overnight

The two conflicts could end on a ‘similar timetable’ US President Donald Trump has said.…

Amazon’s cloud business is surging — and so is its capital spending

The e-commerce giant is making more money than expected from AWS but it's also spending a lot, and will continue to do so in the near term, its chief executive said.…

Google Gives OpenAI 20 Billion Reasons To Worry

Google posted giant revenue growth this past quarter and it was thanks to Gemini.…

Putin Scales Back Military Parade, Seems Agreeable to a Ceasefire with Ukraine

Russia is never going to announce that it is out of steam and on the verge of an economic collapse.…

Trump says he discussed a Ukraine ceasefire with Putin

Two leaders discussed temporary cessation of hostilities to mark anniversary of end of World War Two next month…

Trump says Putin could agree to temporary cease-fire in Ukraine

“I think we’re going to come up with a solution relatively quickly,” Trump told reporters in the Oval Office.…

Amazon earnings beat expectations with strong cloud growth

Revenue in Amazon's cloud computing segment expanded 28% year over year, topping analysts' estimates.…

I Played Putin in a War Game. He Could Invade Again.

NATO countries need to get their act together.…

Sealsq: Quantum Growth Setup With Cash-Backed Undervaluation

SEALSQ has a robust $525M cash position and zero debt, providing industry-leading runway. Read more on LAES stock's buy thesis here.…

Russia Cuts Tanks, Missiles From Putin’s WWII Parade in First Since 2007

Bork in Prague: SUSE's keynote gods demand their tribute

Linux vendor touts European independence while rate limits, Chromium popups, and cold sparks steal the show BORK!BORK!BORK! The keynote gods are a fickle bunch, as SUSE discovered …

AWS CEO Matt Garman sees huge business opportunity for Amazon in AI-powered software: ‘Everything is going to be remade’

In an interview with Fortune, the CEO of Amazon Web Services discussed the company's new push into productivity software as well as its partnership with OpenAI.…

Western Digital: This Bull Run May Just Be Starting

Western Digital's revenue is set to rebound, with Q3 sales expected to be up 40% YoY and adjusted EPS projected at $2.39. Check out why WDC stock is a Buy.…

What The Wizard of the Kremlin gets wrong about Russia

The post What The Wizard of the Kremlin gets wrong about Russia appeared first on spiked .…

Swift on Nvidia Jetson

A Swift host process driving an NVIDIA DeepStream graph on a Jetson Orin Nano. Swift fit cleanly around DeepStream's C surface — that part was uneventful. What needed fixing was be…

Opinion: Why You Should Use NATS 2.10 Over Kafka for Edge Messaging

After benchmarking 12 edge messaging workloads across 400+ IoT nodes, I’ve found NATS 2.10 delivers...…

Enabling privacy-preserving AI training on everyday devices

MIT researchers developed a technique that accelerates a privacy-preserving approach for training AI models on edge devices. Their new framework could enable more accurate, efficie…

SwarmDrive: Semantic V2V Coordination for Latency-Constrained Cooperative Autonomous Driving

Cloud-hosted LLM inference for autonomous driving adds round-trip delay and depends on stable connectivity, while purely local edge models struggle under occlusion. We present Swar…

Edge Computing and Intelligence: AI for Edge and AI on Edge

Edge AI is giving a device its own "brain" so it can think for itself, right where it is, instead of asking a giant supercomputer far away for every decision.…

Ukraine strikes Russia's Tuapse refinery, Putin says attacks intensifying on civilian targets - Reuters

Ukraine strikes Russia's Tuapse refinery, Putin says attacks intensifying on civilian targets Reuters…

Big Tech Earnings Preview: The AI Supercycle Meets Reality

Big Tech earnings week: Microsoft, Alphabet, Amazon, Meta & Apple face AI growth and capex scrutiny. Click for more on MSFT, GOOGL, AAPL, AMZN, META, and AAPL.…

Trump's Shameful Effort to Deport Russian Dissenters Fleeing Putin

The administration seeks to deport them back to Russia, in spite of overwhelming, moral, legal, and strategic reasons not to do so.…

China's National Supercomputing Center in Shenzhen unveils the Lingshen project, aiming for 2+ exaFLOPS performance using a domestic-made CPU-only architecture (Luke James/Tom's Hardware)

Luke James / Tom's Hardware : China's National Supercomputing Center in Shenzhen unveils the Lingshen project, aiming for 2+ exaFLOPS performance using a domestic-made CPU-only arc…

Amazon and OpenAI expand partnership amid enterprise push

The move comes as many companies are increasingly looking to agents as a way to boost employee productivity and automate rote chores.…

iOS 27 could make your AirPods a lot more powerful, here’s why

iOS 27’s unveiling is not far away, and Siri’s major overhaul is set to make not only the iPhone feel far more powerful, but AirPods too.…

OpenAI expands Amazon deal after Microsoft loosens exclusivity terms

AWS customers will have direct access to AI lab’s most advanced models…

Microsoft finally open sources DOS 1.0 - and it's so much more than the code

Want a blast from the past? Microsoft just open-sourced its very first operating system, offering a rare insight into the PC's earliest days.…

The resurrected Commodore 64 is getting a facelift like the original

The creators of the C64 Ultimate, a recreation of the iconic '80s personal computer that uses an FPGA chip to accurately replicate the original, have announced a follow-up version …

Putin says Ukraine has intensified attacks on civilian targets in Russia

MOSCOW, April 28 - Ukraine has stepped up attacks on civilian infrastructure in Russia, President Vladimir Putin said on Tuesday, citing a recent drone strike on an oil refinery in…

Amazon and OpenAI announce an expanded deal that will make OpenAI's models available from AWS, a day after OpenAI revised its Microsoft partnership (Ina Fried/Axios)

By Ina Fried / Axios. View the full context on Techmeme.…

Hackaday Europe: Last Round of Speakers, Workshops

If you don’t already have your tickets to Hackaday Europe, pick them up now. The clock is ticking! Today, we’d like to announce our keynote speaker, the remainder of our featured t…