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Five trends shaping Artificial Intelligence infrastructure in 2026

14 Feb 2026

Data center operators face rising complexity as liquid cooling, regulation, supply constraints, edge inference and sovereign Artificial Intelligence strategies converge. Success increasingly depends on specialized expertise, partnerships and careful workload placement.

artificial intelligence, data-centers, infrastructure, regulation

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Global artificial intelligence race accelerates across infrastructure, regulation, and applications

14 Feb 2026

Tech giants, governments, and startups ramped up artificial intelligence investment, infrastructure buildouts, and regulatory positioning, while new models, agent platforms, and security concerns intensified competitive and ethical fault lines.

ai safety, enterprise software, generative ai, infrastructure, policy and regulation

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Palantir expands Artificial Intelligence models and no-code tools across Foundry and AIP

14 Feb 2026

Palantir is rolling out new Artificial Intelligence models, a generally available no-code model training workspace, and expanded workflow and developer capabilities across Foundry and AIP in February 2026.

artificial intelligence, developer tools, machine learning, palantir

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US Department of Labor outlines Artificial Intelligence literacy framework

14 Feb 2026

The US Department of Labor has released an Artificial Intelligence literacy framework that identifies core content areas and delivery principles intended to guide nationwide workforce and education efforts.

artificial intelligence, government policy, workforce development

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Samsung begins mass production of first commercial HBM4 for artificial intelligence computing

14 Feb 2026

Samsung has started mass production and customer shipments of its industry-first HBM4 memory, manufactured on an advanced 6th-generation 10 nm-class DRAM process. The company is positioning the new high bandwidth memory as a performance driver for next-generation artificial intelligence workloads.

artificial intelligence, hardware, memory, semiconductors

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AMD passes 40% server CPU revenue share for the first time

14 Feb 2026

AMD has surpassed 40% revenue share in the server CPU market, signaling rising average selling prices and stronger traction in data centers and desktops against Intel.

cpus, data-centers, market analysis, semiconductors

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Qualcomm tests Samsung LPDDR6X memory for future Artificial Intelligence accelerators

14 Feb 2026

Qualcomm is evaluating Samsung's prototype LPDDR6X memory for its upcoming AI200 and AI250 accelerator platforms, signaling a push to adapt mobile-class low power DRAM for data center inference workloads.

artificial intelligence, data-centers, hardware, memory

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Nvidia DGX Spark brings desktop supercomputing to universities worldwide

14 Feb 2026

Nvidia’s DGX Spark desktop supercomputer is giving universities petaflop-class Artificial Intelligence performance at the lab bench, supporting projects from neutrino astronomy at the South Pole to radiology report analysis and robotics on campus. Institutions are using the compact systems to run large models locally, protect sensitive data and prototype workflows before scaling to big clusters or cloud resources.

artificial intelligence, higher education, nvidia, research computing

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Inference providers slash Artificial Intelligence token costs with Nvidia Blackwell

13 Feb 2026

Inference platforms built on Nvidia Blackwell GPUs are cutting the cost of Artificial Intelligence tokens by up to 10x, using open source models and tightly optimized software stacks across healthcare, gaming, customer service and agentic chat.

artificial intelligence, cloud infrastructure, nvidia, open source

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Artificial Intelligence tools accelerate cybercrime and raise new security risks

13 Feb 2026

Artificial Intelligence is speeding up online scams, raising alarms over powerful agentic assistants and open-source advances from China, while new technologies reshape electric vehicle adoption in Africa and restore voices for people with motor neuron diseases.

artificial intelligence, health tech, open source, security

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ByteDance’s Seedance 2.0 ignites Artificial Intelligence video race in China

13 Feb 2026

ByteDance’s Seedance 2.0 video generation model has gone viral in China, drawing comparisons to a "Sputnik moment" and stoking competitive and regulatory concerns from Hollywood to Beijing. The system’s hyper-realistic output and multimodal input support are being cast as a direct challenge to leading Western Artificial Intelligence video models.

bytedance, china tech, generative ai, video generation

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Artificial Intelligence disruption fears weigh on private credit software exposure

13 Feb 2026

Volatility in public software markets driven by generative Artificial Intelligence concerns is spilling into private credit, where software borrowers represent a significant share of business development company and middle market CLO portfolios but currently show broadly solid credit metrics.

artificial intelligence, credit markets, private equity, software