<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" standalone="yes"?><rss version="2.0" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><channel><title>IT on BriefTechNews.com</title><link>http://brief-tech-news.com/categories/it/</link><description>Recent content in IT on BriefTechNews.com</description><generator>Hugo</generator><language>en</language><copyright>Copyright &amp;copy;2021 &lt;br&gt; Designed &amp;amp; Developed by [Gethugothemes](https://gethugothemes.com/)</copyright><lastBuildDate>Fri, 28 Aug 2026 12:43:46 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="http://brief-tech-news.com/categories/it/index.xml" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"/><item><title>Nvidia reportedly buys Hugging Face for $12.9B as GPU demand stays supply-constrained through 2028</title><link>http://brief-tech-news.com/blogs/2026-08-28-it/</link><pubDate>Fri, 28 Aug 2026 12:43:46 +0000</pubDate><guid>http://brief-tech-news.com/blogs/2026-08-28-it/</guid><description>Nvidia has reportedly agreed to acquire Hugging Face for $12.9 billion, the same week Amazon tripled its Nvidia GPU order to 3 million chips and Nvidia told investors AI supply constraints will persist through fiscal 2028. Anthropic signed a separate $45 billion, six-year compute deal with Nscale for 460MW in West Virginia. Z.ai open-sourced GLM-5.3-Flash, a 320B-parameter MoE model using linear attention to roughly halve memory growth at long context. Nutanix disclosed a $20M internal AI cluster it expects to pay back in a year, and Palo Alto Networks&amp;rsquo; CEO revealed he tried and failed to buy both Okta and Datadog before the $25B CyberArk deal.</description></item><item><title>Nvidia doubles to $96B as supply still can't keep up</title><link>http://brief-tech-news.com/blogs/2026-08-27-it/</link><pubDate>Thu, 27 Aug 2026 12:34:17 +0000</pubDate><guid>http://brief-tech-news.com/blogs/2026-08-27-it/</guid><description>Nvidia posted $96.2B in quarterly revenue, more than doubling year-over-year, and guided to $108B next quarter. CISA gave federal agencies three days to patch a CVSS 10.0 Oracle flaw that&amp;rsquo;s been actively exploited since March. Salesforce embedded its CRM inside Claude with 37 sales skills, and AWS signed a deal to acquire DuckLabs, the company behind DuckDB. Google Cloud shipped new cost controls for AI agents, including Flexible Savings Plans with up to 20% off token costs. Behind the scenes, memory may eat 68% of cloud capex as DRAM and NAND prices climb.</description></item><item><title>OpenAI's 700W Jalapeño, GPT-5.6 lands in GovCloud, and SaaS prepares for its AI reckoning</title><link>http://brief-tech-news.com/blogs/2026-08-26-it/</link><pubDate>Wed, 26 Aug 2026 12:42:53 +0000</pubDate><guid>http://brief-tech-news.com/blogs/2026-08-26-it/</guid><description>OpenAI has detailed Jalapeño, its first custom AI accelerator built with Broadcom: 700W TDP, running under 550W on tested workloads. GPT-5.6 Terra and Luna are now generally available in AWS GovCloud via Bedrock, with million-token context and a 90% prompt caching discount. Cisco is folding Supermicro liquid-cooled servers into its NVIDIA AI Factory stack, and McKinsey says enterprise AI is finally finding paths to ROI. Perplexity and Nvidia are shipping a local agent with zero token costs on DGX Spark, and Oracle&amp;rsquo;s Exadata is now live on AWS hardware.</description></item><item><title>Nvidia's Groq 3 LPX enters production, OpenAI claws back share from Anthropic</title><link>http://brief-tech-news.com/blogs/2026-08-25-it/</link><pubDate>Tue, 25 Aug 2026 12:34:15 +0000</pubDate><guid>http://brief-tech-news.com/blogs/2026-08-25-it/</guid><description>Nvidia&amp;rsquo;s Groq 3 LPX inference accelerator hit full production at Hot Chips, with Nebius signed up as the first customer. Ramp data from 70,000+ US organisations shows OpenAI regaining corporate share against Anthropic after trailing in May and July. IBM previewed a dual-architecture chip that runs Arm and Z workloads on the same cores, while neoclouds crossed $25B in 2025 revenue and are forecast to take 20% of the $267B AI cloud market by 2030.</description></item><item><title>Alibaba goes for $10B, PJM pulls the grid plug, and Ramp opens its model router</title><link>http://brief-tech-news.com/blogs/2026-08-24-it/</link><pubDate>Mon, 24 Aug 2026 12:45:14 +0000</pubDate><guid>http://brief-tech-news.com/blogs/2026-08-24-it/</guid><description>Alibaba is raising roughly $10 billion for AI infrastructure days after reporting a 75% jump in AI capex. PJM, the largest US grid operator, wants new large customers like AI data centers to be the first load shed when power is tight. GitLab 19.3 ships single-tenant agentic AI, and Ramp opens the internal model router it says has cut LLM costs by around 30% to everyone. Two new surveys find enterprise AI agents are stalling on data access, with 95% of one set of respondents delaying or killing projects in the past year. Nvidia takes a stake in Cloverleaf, which says it has gigawatt-scale AI factory projects in the pipeline.</description></item><item><title>Citrix drops two NetScaler bugs, Slack turns the group chat into an IDE</title><link>http://brief-tech-news.com/blogs/2026-08-21-it/</link><pubDate>Fri, 21 Aug 2026 12:43:40 +0000</pubDate><guid>http://brief-tech-news.com/blogs/2026-08-21-it/</guid><description>Citrix shipped out-of-band NetScaler fixes for an unauthenticated SAML auth bypass and a SIP ALG memory overflow, and is telling admins to patch before history repeats with prior in-the-wild exploits. Slack launched Slack Code and NanoClaw integration, dragging Claude Code, Devin and Copilot into shared channels where agents run under the inviter&amp;rsquo;s identity. Enterprises are entering a &amp;ldquo;cautious AI&amp;rdquo; phase as Gartner projects $64B in model/platform spend, up 63% YoY, and agentic workloads that burn 3-5x more tokens per query.</description></item></channel></rss>