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Earlier this week, Cathie Wood highlighted the intensifying competition for Nvidia Corp as ARK Investment Management forecasts that custom AI chips could command more than one-third of the compute market by the end of the decade. ARK Sees Custom Silicon Reshaping AI Compute Market Frank Downing, ARK's director of research for next-generation internet, said in a post on X that the firm expects "over a third of the compute market will be custom silicon by 2030." He defined custom as non-GPU chips — effectiv ...

Amazon said drone strikes significantly damaged two of its data centers and a facility in the Middle East amid the conflict in Iran, taking some of the tech giant’s services in the region offline.The hits to two data centers in the United Arab Emirates and a facility in Bahrain occurred Sunday morning, “by objects” that created “sparks and fire,” Amazon Web Services initially said in a status report on its website.In an update Monday morning, the company said the damage was caused by drone strikes tied to “ ...

Foreign workers look at a tall plume of black smoke ascends following an explosion in the Fujairah industrial zone on March 3, 2026.Apps and digital services in the United Arab Emirates are reporting outages following drone strikes on Amazon Web Services' data centers in the country. AWS said late Monday that two of its data centers in the UAE and a facility in Bahrain were damaged by drone strikes, taking the facilities offline. Consumer apps, including delivery and taxi platform Careem, and payments compa ...

Over the past quarter, Google released an agentic commerce standard, representing a major threat to Amazon’s deeply entrenched e-commerce business, and Anthropic is now going after IBM’s mainstay mainframe business with new coding capabilities that threaten to reduce the industry’s dependency on legacy systems. In recent weeks, Google announced an agentic Universal Commerce Protocol (UCP) to eliminate the need for retailers to maintain complex infrastructures necessary to shore up their online purchasing ...

I couldn't ask for a better start to the year; compounding off last month, I added another substantial increase to my forward income. Once again, there were healthy contributions from all three forms of dividend growth: new purchases, dividend increases, andI am an electromechanical engineer who has worked in the automotive, IT infrastructure, and medical device industries. My goal is to produce technical breakdowns on company products and share my industry experiences to provide insight on current engineer ...

The 5G war just left Earth. Elon Musk amplified a post touting Starlink Mobile's next-generation satellites, promising 5G speeds from space and "100x the data density" versus its V1 satellites. The claim: seamless streaming, voice calls and high-speed apps — as if connected to a terrestrial network.Around the same time, Amazon.com Inc (NASDAQ:AMZN) signaled its own escalation.Starlink Vs Kuiper: Disruption Or Integration?Amazon's satellite unit, Project Kuiper, announced that Vodafone will use its high-spee ...

Key Takeaways Vodafone partners with Amazon Leo to connect 4G/5G masts via LEO satellites.The deal delivers up to 1 Gbps downlink, 400 Mbps uplink to remote sites, cutting fiber needs.Vodafone starts in Germany, then expands across Africa via Vodacom as LEO fleet scales.Vodafone Group Public Limited Company (VOD) has inked a deal with Amazon.com, Inc.’s (AMZN) subsidiary Amazon Leo to connect 4G and 5G mobile masts in remote areas in Europe and Africa. The agreement aims to leverage Amazon’s low Earth orbit ...

Key Takeaways AMZN plans up to $50B investment in OpenAI to expand its AI footprint and AWS role.AWS will power OpenAI models, with expanded compute deals and 2GW Trainium capacity.Amazon faces rising capex and lower free cash flow amid aggressive AI spending.Amazon.com (AMZN) made a significant move to deepen its AI footprint recently, announcing a multi-year strategic partnership with OpenAI alongside a commitment to invest up to $50 billion in the ChatGPT-maker. The initial tranche of $15 billion will be ...

US equity futures are down sharply, along with all global markets, as the Iran war expands and escalates (attack on US embassy in Saudi Arabia; uncertainty over duration of Strait of Hormuz closure; targeting non-military infra / businesses) rattling markets and sending oil and the dollar surging. Global bonds also plunge on fears that Trump’s “whatever it takes” vow on Iran will fuel energy prices and inflation. As of 8:00am ET, S&P futures are down 1.4%, off session lows, as market odds for Fed rate cuts ...