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Simon Sharwood

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  1. Article · Jul 14, 2026 · Simon Sharwood

    India’s tech services giant HCL is getting into the AI datacenter business (opens the original)

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    Starting small with $37m and maybe 50MW but reckons full-stack service plan can succeed Indian tech services giant and retro software house HCL has decided to get into the AI datacenter business. The company yesterday revealed its plan in an announcement [PDF] released alongside its Q1 results, which included news of three-percent year-over-year revenue growth to $3.65 billion and 20 percent growth in net income which reached $488 million. CEO C. Vijayakumar also pointed to 62 percent year-over-

  2. Article · Jul 13, 2026 · Simon Sharwood

    Apple accuses OpenAI of stealing its core tech secrets (opens the original)

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    Lawsuit alleges job-swappers took secrets with them, helped by coaching on how to avoid scrutiny Apple has filed a lawsuit against former employees who now work at OpenAI, and the AI upstart itself, alleging theft of intellectual property. Cupertino’s complaint [PDF] opens with an accusation that a former employee joined OpenAI after eight years at Apple, and on his way out dodged an exit interview and didn’t return his work laptop. The filing alleges that once he “exploited a rare, previously u

  3. Article · Jul 13, 2026 · Simon Sharwood

    Meta admits its first ‘superintelligence’ was too stupid to survive for three days (opens the original)

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    Pulls AI-powered image tweaker after allowing free-for-all Meta has withdrawn the first image generation product created by its Superintelligence Labs fewer than 72 hours after launch. The product was called “Muse Image” and Meta launched it on July 8, billing it as “the first AI image generation model from Meta Superintelligence Labs.” That lab is Zuck’s latest big bet and aims to create a “personal superintelligence that knows us deeply, understands our goals, and can help us achieve them.” In

  4. Article · Jul 13, 2026 · Simon Sharwood

    Lenovo denies using banned Chinese SSDs where they're not allowed (opens the original)

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    PLUS: Canadian/Bhutanese datacenter for India; China re-uses a rocket; Australia signals AI intervention; And more! ASIA IN BRIEF Lenovo has denied it sells laptops that include banned Chinese storage devices where they're not allowed. An outlet called Notebookcheck recently reported that it a ThinkBook 14 G9 IPL and found a solid-state disk made by Chinese company YMTC inside. Some observers joined the dots and decided the laptop could be a problem for Lenovo because a Biden administration deci

  5. Article · Jul 10, 2026 · Simon Sharwood

    Red Hat offers RHEL support 'forever' for those who need to lock into legacy tech (opens the original)

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    Red Hat has created a new support offering for its flagship Enterprise Linux that it characterizes as “RHEL forever” and has “no pre-determined end date.” The IBM business unit says the offering, formally known as “The Long-Life Add-On,” will “keep older minor or major versions of RHEL secure and stable” by providing critical patches, urgent bug fixes, and 24x7 tech support for as long as customers keep paying for it. Red Hat reckons the super-extended support is needed because platform migratio

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