CEOs raise expectations for HR leaders amid accelerating artificial intelligence adoption
Chief human resources officers are being pulled into board level debates on artificial intelligence, workforce design, culture, and security, even as evidence of productivity gains remains limited. The role is shifting from administration to strategic stewardship of talent, technology and risk.
Hyperscalers race to redefine data centers around Artificial Intelligence chips by 2026
Hyperscalers are accelerating investments and redesigning data center architectures around specialized Artificial Intelligence chips as they plan for 2026 deployments. Supply chains are shifting toward advanced packaging and high bandwidth memory to keep pace with growing model and workload demands.
Microsoft Fabric rolls out broad previews, general availability upgrades, and Power BI semantic model changes
Microsoft Fabric is adding dozens of preview capabilities across OneLake, Data Factory, Real-Time Intelligence, and Artificial Intelligence tooling, while promoting key features such as Cosmos DB mirroring, Lakehouse schemas, and SQL database into general availability. Power BI default semantic models are also being decoupled and retired on a set timeline, changing how reporting models are managed.
New York proposal seeks multi year pause on new data centres amid resource concerns
New York lawmakers are proposing a multi year pause on new data centres to study their impact on water, electricity and gas, aligning the state with a growing national push to rein in infrastructure growth driven by the Artificial Intelligence boom.