Artificial intelligence is usually discussed as software, but its limits are increasingly physical. Every model depends on processors housed in data centres, continuous electricity, cooling systems, fibre connections and engineers who can keep the equipment running. Solomon Asamoah sees this as a defining infrastructure question for Ghana and Africa: how can the continent expand compute […]

Anthropic has committed $11.6 billion over seven years to Akamai's cloud infrastructure, a bet on CPUs that could grow to about $20 billion, and in an unusual arrangement, Akamai is giving Anthropic a potential stake of up to 5% of its stock that grows as Anthropic spends more.

Connected products fail at the application layer now, where firmware telemetry, cloud pipelines, and the user-facing app are often built with different assumptions about the data. This gap has grown as inference moves to the device, fleets mix cellular, LPWAN, and satellite networks, and the EU Cyber Resilience Act requires secure remote updates from 11 […]