Google layoffs hit over 100 design roles amid AI spending shift

Google layoffs have hit more than 100 workers in its design teams, marking the latest round of job cuts tied to the company’s shift toward AI and tighter spending. Earlier this week, Google layoffs affected parts of the cloud division, including teams working on user experience research, and platform and service experience. Internal documents seen … Read more

How cloud computing powers Huawei’s advanced automotive audio systems

Huawei’s Shanghai Acoustics R&D Centre is a centre for acoustic engineering excellence, and a demonstration of how cloud computing automotive applications can reshape vehicle technology development. Behind the 43-speaker HUAWEI SOUND ULTIMATE Series is a computational infrastructure that processes massive acoustic datasets, runs simulations, and enables real-time audio processing that would have been impossible a … Read more

How Huawei plans to open its cloud AI software stack for multi-vendor deployment

Cloud providers and enterprises building private AI infrastructure received detailed implementation timelines last week for deploying Huawei’s open-source cloud AI software stack. At Huawei Connect 2025 in Shanghai, the company outlined how its CANN toolkit, Mind series development environment, and openPangu foundation models will become publicly available by December 31, addressing a persistent challenge in … Read more

Huawei’s cloud AI infrastructure breakthrough connects 15,000 chips as one system

The challenge of building efficient cloud AI infrastructure has always been about scale—not just adding more servers, but making those servers work together seamlessly. At Huawei Connect 2025, the Chinese technology giant unveiled an approach that fundamentally changes how cloud providers and enterprises can pool computing resources.  Instead of managing thousands of independent servers that … Read more

Huawei Ascends to SuperPods and SuperClusters

At the Huawei Connect 2025 event in Shanghai last week, Chinese technology Huawei explained its plans for the next generations of its Ascend chip line, and released details on its deployment in pods, and world-leading compute clusters. Speaking at the Huawei Connect conference, deputy chair of Huawei board, Eric Xu, said 2025 had been a … Read more

Alibaba brings Nvidia’s AI robotics tools to its cloud

Alibaba and Nvidia have teamed up again, expanding their collaboration in AI and robotics. The two companies announced at the Apsara Conference in Hangzhou that Nvidia’s embodied AI tools will be integrated into Alibaba Cloud’s machine learning platform. The move gives developers access to Nvidia’s toolkit for building AI systems that interact with the physical … Read more

CyrusOne’s Intelliscale: Modular data centres built for the AI era

The race to build data centres to support AI and high-density computing requirements is on, and CyrusOne is helping redefine scalable data centre design with Intelliscale, its modular approach to support greater workloads. “Intelliscale was engineered with adaptability at its core”, CyrusOne said when it launched its offering back in July, “building infrastructure that can … Read more

Mendix: Why aligning business and IT value is vital for digital transformation

Digital transformation is in many cases easier said than done. A recent study found three-quarters of UK public sector organisations are yet to fully implement their digital transformation strategies. Good advice can be hard to find, from technological to cultural adoption – the what, the who, and the when. Yet low-code platform provider Mendix has … Read more