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Alibaba Group Holding (NYSE:BABA) is expanding its global cloud footprint with new data center regions in Brazil, France, and the Netherlands. The company is increasing capital expenditure to support rising AI infrastructure demand across international markets.

Coforge’s aggressive AI push is paying off, with strong revenue growth and margin expansion outpacing the sector.

Tech layoffs have surged to their highest level in years, but cuts attributed to AI may be driven more by investment in the technology than by it replacing workers. Nearly 90 tech companies announced layoffs affecting roughly 82,

Salesforce (NYSE:CRM | CRM Price Prediction) and Oracle (NYSE:ORCL) just delivered earnings that frame the cloud pivot from opposite ends. Oracle is pouring capital into AI infrastructure to become a hyperscaler.

As data centers have proliferated, the general public has begun to push back against them, citing concerns over pollution, power prices, and water use. When Microsoft brings its own clean power to a project, it can plausibly say it has addressed two of those concerns. Without it, new data centers might be harder to sell to the public.

Under the merger agreement, Lattice will acquire AMI on a cash-free, debt-free basis for total consideration of about $1.65 billion. That breaks down to approximately $1.0 billion in cash plus around $650 million in Lattice common stock,

The AI rally that’s driven the S&P 500 and Nasdaq to all-time highs has felt like it was hitting a crescedo for three years straight. But as hyperscalers push their own capital expenditure commitments higher and higher (Meta just raised their 2026 capex estimates to $145),

Kakao is preparing to unveil Kanana 2.5, a 150-billion-parameter large language model designed for AI agents, as the company moves to bring personalized AI serv

Canadian unions are intensifying calls for federal restrictions on workplace AI, citing job losses, invasive monitoring, and misleading customer interactions. Their push comes amid a privacy ruling against OpenAI and ahead of Ottawa’s delayed national AI ...