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Hybrid cloud breaks down when every environment has its own provisioning process, security model, monitoring stack, and cost structure. In practice, many hybrid strategies were built around where infrastructure happened to live, not around each workload’s latency, data governance, resilience, performance, and cost requirements. Why has hybrid cloud become so hard to run? Most en...

Octave Klaba, the CEO of France-based cloud operator OVH has warned that it will soon hike the price of server rental by up to 87 percent. Klaba said the price OVH pays for memory rose 6x in the year to June 2026, will rise to 9x by September, and hit 12x next year. He has also seen a 7x price increase for NVMe drives, hard disk prices rise 3.5x, and the cost of CPUs, motherboar...

Japan has successfully launched the last of the current generation of the satellite navigation orbiters it will use to operate a sovereign positioning system. The satellite, known as “Michibiki No. 7”, aka QZS-7, made it into orbit early on Tuesday, local time, aboard an H3 rocket. The H3 is the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency’s (JAXA’s) latest mid-range launcher and has flow...

Alibaba is one of the world’s leading sources of large language models, yet its cloudy arm is proudly showing off its own technology that finds ways to avoid using them. Alibaba Cloud has built a system to analyze its customers’ tech support queries that often avoids using large language models to solve the problem, an approach it says has proven faster, cheaper, and more accura...

Anthropic will embed watermarks in the text and files generated by future models it launches in the EU, as part of its effort to comply with content and transparency rules in the bloc's AI Act. "Generated text will carry embedded watermarks, and generated files will include digitally signed provenance metadata where supported," the company said in a help document published on Mo...