AI fuels fresh rush into data streaming platforms
More tools, more chaos
Investment in data streaming is ballooning as firms chase AI dreams yet find themselves tangled in a growing thicket of platforms.
Cloudflare stumble knocks swathes of the internet offline
Morning traffic surge sends major sites into a tailspin
A sudden Cloudflare meltdown on Tuesday morning left large chunks of the internet wheezing as sites from social media to retail and transport threw up baffling error messages.
Oracle spooks markets with AI binge
Heavy debts rattle investors already twitchy about runaway AI spending
Oracle has taken a wallop as tech stocks and bonds tank, landing far harder than its Big Tech pals thanks to its colossal borrowing spree to muscle into the AI circus, which has rattled the cocaine nose jobs of Wall Street something fierce.
China taps Nvidia kit through a maze of middlemen
Jakarta’s server farm shows how China still reaches banned silicon.
A Jakarta data centre squeezed between a school and posh flats has become the latest reminder that US export controls leak badly.
Anthropic splashes out on colossal AI kit build
Claude maker throws silly money at US data centres
Anthropic has decided that the only way to keep its AI toys from coughing is to pour $50 billion into new infrastructure across the US.