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Report: 56% Blame Cyber Skills Gaps for BreachesTech — 1dBusinesses face growing shortages of AI, cloud and cybersecurity skills, with Vietnamese companies citing a lack of digital talent as a major barrier to AI adoption. As AI accelerates cyberattacks and skills gaps contribute to costly breaches, the articles emphasize practical, AI-ready training linked to employers’ needs.

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Eurozone Investor Confidence Falls, German Consumers Turn Pessimistic — 2dGerman consumer confidence fell sharply in October, clouding prospects for spending and Christmas shopping as households anticipated higher prices and lower disposable income. Eurozone investor confidence also weakened as expectations declined; Sentix cited growing concern about France, while Germany’s current economic assessment improved despite softer expectations.

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“I believe cats to be spirits come to earth. A cat, I am sure, could walk on a cloud without coming through.” — Jules Verne, Author, 1828–1905 — 6dPosted to IJR by IJR.

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Akamai Signs $11.6 Billion Anthropic Cloud Deal — Sep 24, 2026Akamai signed a $11.6 billion seven-year cloud deal with Anthropic on September 24, 2026; shares surged more than 16% after hours.

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Elena Vasquez Akamai locking in that much revenue from Anthropic for seven years should steady their cloud business for a while.

Microsoft Plans $10B-Plus Gulf Cloud, AI Investment — Sep 23, 2026Microsoft plans more than $10 billion in Gulf cloud and AI investment by 2030 and is adding to spending amid the Iran conflict, Brad Smith told Reuters.

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Sam Okafor Spending billions more amid Iran tensions risks making Microsoft too dependent on volatile partners in that area.

Most Influential Women in World HistoryYourlist — RankingFrom ancient queens who ruled empires to modern activists who changed laws, these women left indelible marks on politics, science, and culture. Vote for who you think shaped history most profoundly.

OpenAI launches always-on Dots agents to rival Meta's Muse — Sep 29, 2026OpenAI launched Dots at DevDay 2026 on September 29: always-on GPT-6 Astra agents with their own cloud computers, rolling out to paid users opposite Meta's Muse.

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Elena Vasquez OpenAI's always-on Dots with dedicated cloud machines could be useful for heavy users, but I worry about the extra subscription fees piling up.

China manufacturing and services indexes both return above 50Business — Sep 29, 2026China’s official manufacturing and non-manufacturing sectors returned to growth in September, while a private survey showed stronger expansion in both sectors. The rebound offers a modest lift, but weak domestic demand, pressure on manufacturers and concerns that recent support measures may be insufficient cloud the outlook.

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Tech Giants Intensify AI Chip CompetitionTech — Sep 20, 2026The enterprise AI hardware race is intensifying as Windows dominates desktops, Apple pushes on-device AI, and Nvidia-backed Grok 4.7 accelerates user-specific workloads, highlighting a split between local inference and cloud-centric compute. Across Google, Alphabet, Amazon, and Nvidia, heavy funding for AI accelerators and shifting cloud strategies—such as Nvidia’s DGX Cloud adjustments—signal a broader realignment of how AI is trained and deployed.

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Anthropic IPO filing reports $42 billion loss, $518 billion spending — 5dAnthropic’s leaked draft IPO prospectus reportedly shows revenue surging to about $4.6 billion in 2025, alongside a $42 billion net loss—much of it tied to an accounting charge—and $518 billion in future cloud and infrastructure obligations, as the company seeks a valuation above $2 trillion. The disclosures sharpen questions about profitability and investor appetite, while Anthropic also warns that tensions with the Trump administration could damage commercial relationships and its reputation beyond its limited government business.

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Meta Strengthens Muse Warnings After Security Flaw — Sep 25, 2026Meta is strengthening safety warnings in its Muse AI agent after a researcher found a flaw that could have exposed users’ cloud-based emails and files. The vulnerability highlighted risks from AI tools that access accounts and act on users’ behalf; exploiting it would have required a user to approve a prompt linked to a compromised webpage.

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AfD victory clouds Merz's reform agenda as ally seeks changesWorld — Sep 8, 2026

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Toy Story vs ShrekYourlist — VS BattleThe toy box vs the swamp: two animation revolutions, one inevitable playground argument.

CanSemi plans ChiNext IPO that could make it first wafer maker — Sep 23, 2026Guangzhou-based CanSemi Technology is seeking to raise about 6.16 billion yuan in a Shenzhen ChiNext listing, pricing shares at 12.01 yuan and selling about 512.6 million new shares (potentially up to 589.54 million with overallotment) to fund 12-inch wafer production expansion and working capital. Strategic investors including Alibaba Cloud Feitian Information Technology, Goodix Technology and Biwin Storage Technology have taken stakes, underscoring strong demand for domestic chip manufacturing amid China’s tech self-reliance push.

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Lectra launches Apogy platform to automate fashion product development with AI — Sep 15, 2026Lectra launches Apogy, a cloud-based, agentic AI-powered platform that unifies data, processes and stakeholders to accelerate fashion product development and reduce errors, building on its history as a CAD standard. Early adopters like O’Neills and Oniverse illustrate the solution’s potential to break silos across ideation to prototyping and scale Lectra’s SaaS leadership in the industry.

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Axelera AI Launches Europa, Secures AI Factory Contracts — Sep 15, 2026Axelera AI unveiled Europa, its second-generation AI Processing Unit aimed at enterprise servers and AI factories, and has already secured tens of millions in contracts while building a broad ecosystem with partners like Dell and Supermicro. The company touts a growing 600-plus customer base, strong performance-per-watt, and a strategy to enable production AI in controlled, secure environments amid rising cloud costs and the demand for secure data sovereignty.

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Nicole Hardy Tens of millions in contracts plus ties to Dell and Supermicro should help them scale Europa beyond the 600 customers they already have.

Spencer Memoir Reopens Dispute Over Diana ClaimsWorld — Sep 16, 2026Diana’s brother, Charles Spencer, promotes in his forthcoming Swan Song: Diana, My Sister a narrative accusing Prince Charles of a volatile reaction after Diana’s death, including allegedly telling Spencer he’d “forget her soon enough” and suggesting relief at Diana’s death as the boys walked behind her coffin; the memoir also touches on Diana’s mental health and the emotional aftermath. Buckingham Palace publicly questions the recollection, with Charles’ grief cited as potentially clouding judgment and memory, while Spencer counters with renewed detail as the book release approaches.

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Amazon Debut Sterling Bond Sale Draws Over £12 Billion in DemandFinance — Sep 8, 2026Amazon has hired banks to launch its first-ever sterling bond sale, issuing 3-, 6-, 12-, and 19-year maturities to diversify funding for its AI and cloud expansion, with a potential launch as soon as this week. The move underscores a broader trend of large tech companies raising debt across currencies to fund AI infrastructure and growth.

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Baker Hughes Wins Major Venture Global LNG Orders — Sep 13, 2026Venture Global expects the next arbitration ruling over Calcasieu Pass LNG sales by the end of the year, as Baker Hughes and Venture Global push major infrastructure expansions including the Cloud Connector Pipeline and Plaquemines LNG capacity with modular liquefaction and gas-compression solutions. Industry leadership also notes a robust outlook for US natural gas and LNG demand, with growth supported by new data-center power needs and ongoing expansion efforts.

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Elena Vasquez Data center power demand will likely keep natural gas exports strong even if arbitration drags on.

Netflix Seeks FIFA Talks Over 2030 World CupEntertainment — Sep 10, 2026Netflix is signaling a broader push into live sports by exploring rights to the 2030 FIFA World Cup and expanding its global sports portfolio beyond the U.S., including major events like NFL broadcasts. At the same time, it is accelerating production efficiency with cloud-based tools and machine-learning aids, while testing large-scale live streaming capacity through international events and past performance challenges.

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Tech Giants Drive Global AI Infrastructure Expansion — Sep 11, 2026AI infrastructure spending is accelerating globally, with data-center demand lifting suppliers like Volex and Broadcom, while major tech billionaires are funneling tens of billions into India’s AI-focused data centers and cloud projects. At the same time, Elon Musk’s push to turn SpaceX and Tesla into AI-driven empires continues to reshape valuations and investor sentiment, even as questions linger over margins and achievable market caps.

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Healthcare Industry Expands AI, Digital Imaging InvestmentsHealth — Sep 14, 2026Healthcare demand is rising with a shift to outpatient and ambulatory care, while providers pursue AI-driven efficiency and expanded government and payer contracting, including broader digital health platforms and SaaS models. Butterfly Network is accelerating semiconductor-based imaging into wider applications through partnerships and new products, supported by a large patent portfolio, while the broader Medical Info Systems sector emphasizes AI, data security, and cloud-based solutions amid regulatory scrutiny and ongoing growth.

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Positron AI Raises $875M at $5B Valuation — Sep 10, 2026Positron AI raised $875 million in a two‑tranche Series C that values the company at $5 billion and will fund the tapeout of its Asimov memory‑first chip and the production ramp of Titan, as well as expanding manufacturing for its Atlas system deployed at Oracle Cloud. The round, co-led by NEA, Atreides Management, Valor Equity Partners, Andra Capital, SemiAnalysis Capital, and Jim Clark, will also add new board members and accelerate LPDDR5X‑based memory bandwidth‑focused inference hardware designed for air‑ and liquid‑cooled data centers.

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Maya Lindstrom Jim Clark backing the Atlas ramp at Oracle makes sense given his hardware history, though scaling Titan production will still face stiff competition.

Ligent Plans $723 Million Hong Kong IPO — Sep 13, 2026Ligent Technologies plans a Hong Kong IPO to raise about HK$5.67 billion (roughly US$723 million) by offering 172 million shares at HK$32.96, with cornerstone investors and Hisense retaining a stake post-IPO, and aims to list on September 22 to fund R&D, expansion, and general corporate purposes as demand from data centers and cloud computing drives growth. The deal, marketed as tapping into the growing optical communications sector, values the company around HK$32.4–HK$32.398 billion and underscores Ligent’s role in data-center hardware and telecom networks.