NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang used GTC Berlin to outline an ambitious expansion of the chipmaker's European AI strategy, unveiling new infrastructure designs, agent security technology and partnerships that push the company beyond GPUs into the systems enterprises need to deploy AI at scale. Big picture: some of that technology won't arrive until early 2027, the performance claims still need validating in real-world use, and for European customers the open question is whether they can expand adoption and keep data sovereignty without deepening dependence on a single tech giant. Read the full article on what NVIDIA announced and what remains unproven: buff.ly/Cr5rDTk #NVIDIA #AI #GTCBerlin #SovereignAI #AIAgents

The chairman and CEO of Everpure said today it's only a matter of time before IT architects must revisit how data is stored across the enterprise, because multiple copies of the same data sets create conflicting versions, and whenever an AI agent encounters those, the chances its output will be flawed only increase. Resolving that will require a data plane through which data becomes accessible to any application or AI agent, and as Giancarlo puts it, the relationship between data and the application needs to be inverted. Read the full article on why the data silos characterizing most IT environments will need to be greatly reduced: buff.ly/MtqWMQr #AgenticAI #DataManagement #AIAgents #Everpure

Boomi has acquired Israeli data observability startup Elementary Data for a reported $45 million, extending its platform beyond connecting applications into verifying the data AI agents act on. A Forrester study Boomi commissioned found 86% of organizations have moved past agent pilots but only 34% trust the actions their agents take, and 77% of the least-ready ones are pushing into production anyway. Read the full article on why data reliability is becoming the gate before agents touch production: buff.ly/qGV088S #AI #AIAgents #Boomi #DataObservability #EnterpriseAI

China has proposed export restrictions on 40 technologies spanning AI, semiconductors, solar energy and biotech, raising concerns about global supply chains and access to advanced technology. Read more: buff.ly/m3xPyC2 #ChinaTech #AI #Semiconductors #ExportControls #TechnologyPolicy

Large electricity customers, primarily data centers, have requested more than 700 gigawatts of power across major sections of the U.S., more than 10 times what data centers currently consume, and only about 23% of those disclosed requests qualify as high-confidence projects. Developers often submit requests to several utilities while evaluating sites, so a single planned data center can appear multiple times in regional forecasts, and Exelon's high-probability pipeline fell from 18 gigawatts to 11 once it started requiring financial commitments and collateral. Read the full article on how utilities are separating real projects from phantom ones: buff.ly/gXuW4XN #DataCenters #AI #Energy #Grid #Utilities

Oracle plans to use nuclear power for its massive Wisconsin data center, subscribing to 125 to 250 megawatts from the Point Beach Nuclear Plant in an arrangement that could shift about $300 million in energy costs away from the state's utility customers. That matters because Point Beach's power is relatively costly and accounts for roughly 20% of a proposed $176 million rate increase, making the deal a test of whether AI data centers can grow without pushing costs onto the ratepayers already footing the bill. Read more about the agreement and the power crunch facing Wisconsin: buff.ly/BQMYh5n #AI #DataCenters #Nuclear #Oracle

The National Science Foundation has announced the founding members of its new X-Labs Consortium, a $300 million commitment of physical space, instrument access and expertise from partners like the Occam Foundry and Florida Quantum, backed by $1.5 billion meant to carry new technologies from early development to something private enterprise can scale. X-Labs is being positioned as an independent conduit around the bottlenecks associated with universities and industry facilities, and beyond quantum the NSF has stood up an Office of Metascience to pursue super intelligence and prizes in energy, biotechnology and finance. Read the full article on how the initiative takes shape: buff.ly/AhUMCus #QuantumComputing #NSF #Xlabs #SciencePolicy