Flex (NASDAQ: FLEX) said this week it has reached a definitive agreement to buy EPC Power for $4.4 billion, folding in differentiated power-conversion and grid-forming technology built for the next generation of 800V data center power architectures. Flex expects the deal to close in the fourth quarter of calendar 2026,… Read More »Flex Acquires EPC Power: A $4.4B Bet on 800V AI Data Center Power
Nokia today announced Mobile Core Early Access, a live, hosted environment that lets telecommunications providers and enterprises evaluate the software behind AI-era mobile core networks before committing to deployment. The program launched in June with a select group of 30 companies; with today’s announcement, registration is now open to the… Read More »Nokia Opens Its Mobile Core Early Access Program to the Whole Industry
by Chris DePuy / August 30, 2026 On August 11, 2026, xAI introduced Grok Bot, an early-beta product it frames as a roster of always-on AI agents that each run on a cloud computer of their own, sign into the customer’s existing tools, and carry multi-step jobs through to completion… Read More »Grok Bot: Always-On Agent Compute and the Infrastructure It Demands
We attended the very upbeat AMD Advancing AI 2025 Keynote with its CEO, Lisa Su. Guests included hardware partners such as xAI, Meta, Oracle, HUMAIN, Microsoft, and OpenAI. The company announced that its MI355-series GPU ships commercially in 3Q25 and previewed its MI4xx-series, which it expects to ship in 2026. … Read More »AMD Keynote: Responding to the Needs of Existing and Future Hyperscalers
