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Visitors at IMEX America 2026 held live spoken exchanges with four digital characters, with replies coming back in a median 2.6 seconds.
Endeavour & Trevi tap data centre heat for clean water
Data centres could ease water stress by turning waste heat into as much as 200,000 gallons a day of clean water per megawatt.
MIT researchers use cooling platform for AI nuclear work
The project aims to squeeze up to 35% more usable compute from the same power supply as AI demand increasingly hits cooling limits.
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Enterprises in regulated sectors can now access private AI clusters without stitching together multiple vendors, under Smartbird's first strategic infrastructure partnership.
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Building operators could gain conversational AI tools and alarm support as Honeywell expands software across fire, security and energy systems.
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The system could free up more of a data centre's existing power for AI workloads, as cooling can account for up to 40% of energy use.
Industrial AI shifts from demos to tightly controlled use
Industrial users are adopting AI only in tightly bounded roles, as safety, power and integration constraints keep deployments under close human control.
AMD launches 6th Gen EPYC chips for AI data centres
The new chips are already shipping from major hardware vendors as AMD targets heavier AI and cloud workloads in the data centre.
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Fascinated by the technology industry after a visit to a Computer Faire in 1998, Donovan Jackson first worked as a public relations consultant for enterprise software and hardware distribution companies in 2000, then as a journalist for IDG-affiliated channel and trade publications, and as a producer of commercial content as an agency owner through the 2000s and 2010s. He has served as ITBrief editor in the last days of the printed magazine, and has a long association with TechDay as a contributor to special projects. Donovan has wide interests spanning technology, philosophy, bicycles, literature, psychology, motorcycles, travel, geography, history, general knowledge, and various combinations of these and other subjects.
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Rising east-west traffic in data centres is pushing organisations to inspect encrypted AI workloads without slowing performance, Check Point says.
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