The Pothole Problem: What If the Bin Lorry Inspected Your Road Every Week?

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How vehicles already travelling Britain’s roads could help local authorities spot deterioration earlier, reduce risk and get more value from highway maintenance budgets Potholes are hardly a new problem, but in recent years they have become one of the most visible signs of the deteriorating condition of Britain’s local roads. For motorists they can result […]

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Neocloud Enters Its Consolidation Era: What’s Driving It and What It Means for AI Buyers

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Over the last two years, a new class of GPU-first Neocloud providers such as CoreWeave, Lambda, Voltage Park, Crusoe, and others has moved from niche to necessary. They stand out for their cutting-edge accelerators, near bare-metal performance, faster time to capacity, and flexible terms for AI workloads including shorter commitments, lower egress fees, and container-native […]

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Why ARM May Struggle to Dominate AI Servers and How the Intel + NVIDIA NVLink Deal Reinforces x86

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The big question in AI infrastructure Every year, new GPUs and super chips dominate headlines. But behind every GPU cluster sits a crucial decision: which CPU architecture should host it, ARM or x86? ARM has surged in visibility thanks to NVIDIA Grace, AWS Graviton, and AmpereOne. But despite rapid growth, ARM still isn’t the dominant […]

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LLMs vs SLMs: Why Smaller Models Could Power the Future of Agentic AI

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The AI landscape has been dominated by Large Language Models (LLMs)—massive neural networks trained on trillions of tokens, spanning hundreds of billions of parameters. These models, such as GPT-4 or Claude, have shown remarkable general-purpose intelligence, but they come with steep costs: enormous compute requirements, GPU dependency, and operational overheads that make them inaccessible for […]

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