Every server in a modern data center runs on direct current (DC). Yet the electricity that reaches those servers still travels most of the way as alternating current (AC), undergoing several conversions before it reaches the chip. Two international industry alliances argue that this conversion chain is one of the largest sources of avoidable energy waste in today’s facilities – and they have now formalized a plan to change it.
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At Google Cloud Next today, the company made more than 80 data-related announcements organized under a single architectural argument:
"The data architecture has to change now," Andi Gutmans, VP and GM of Data Cloud at Google Cloud, told VentureBeat. "We're moving from human scale to agent scale."
Open source Qdrant database raised $50M - Agents need vector search more than RAG ever did
https://venturebeat.com/data/agents-dont-replace-vector-search-they-make-it-harder-to-get-right
I've written on WebAssembly a bunch in the past and it was always the 'next' big thing. Now it actually is.
Got the chance to reconnect with Matt Butcher to understand what's changed, what's next and how Akamai Technologies is going to help push WASM (and WASI!) forward.
"I think 2026 is going to be the year that the average developer realizes what this technology is and what they can do with it,” Matt Butcher, CEO of Fermyon Technologies, told me.