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Red Hat & Google Cloud extend partnership for AI innovation
Red Hat and Google Cloud extend partnership to advance open source AI, launching llm-d project and enhancing cost-effective generative AI for enterprises.

Auckland unveils alliance to unite & grow city technology sector
Auckland Mayor unveils Innovation & Technology Alliance to boost collaboration, tech growth, and economic productivity in the city and region.

Tech New York Advocates launches to boost global collaboration
Global Tech Advocates launches Tech New York Advocates, its 44th group, led by Alejandro Martinez to foster innovation and inclusivity in NYC's tech scene.

Data Centre Marketing Club aims to boost industry branding
The Data Centre Marketing Club launches to unite PR and marketing pros, aiming to boost the sector's image and innovation through collaboration and events.

NVIDIA & Foxconn to build AI supercomputer for Taiwan
NVIDIA and Foxconn partner with Taiwan to build an AI supercomputer using 10,000 Blackwell GPUs, boosting research and innovation across industries.

Dunedin students told not to put up with run-down flats as rentals inspected
The Ministry of Business, Innovation and Employment is this week inspecting rentals in the southern city.

monday.com grows Q1 revenue 30%, cites continued investment in innovation
monday.com reports Q1 fiscal 2025 revenue of $282.3m, a 30% rise, with record profits and cash flow boosting confidence in growth prospects.

Fujitsu named leader in ServiceNow report for Asia Pacific
Fujitsu has been named a leader in the 2025 ISG Provider Lens ServiceNow report for Asia Pacific, excelling in consulting, managed services and innovation.

Getac unveils rugged Copilot+ PC with AI for critical sectors
Getac will debut the B360 Plus, the world's first fully rugged Copilot+ PC, at its 2025 Innovation Day, showcasing AI's role in tough industry computing.

Hyland names John Newton as Chief Innovation Strategist
Hyland appoints John Newton as Chief Innovation Strategist to boost its AI and content management advancements with his 40 years of industry experience.

Red Hat partners to drive innovation in software-defined vehicles
Red Hat is developing a partner ecosystem to integrate software and services into its In-Vehicle Operating System for future software-defined vehicles.

Auckland mayor Wayne Brown plots tech take off with new innovation alliance
Wayne Brown has launched an alliance to strengthen Auckland�s tech sector. It aims to improve collaboration, attract investment, and support growth.

Microsoft used AI to invent a safer coolant � and dunked a PC in it
Microsoft says it used its own agentic reasoning AI model to help develop and synthesize a new immersion fluid for PC cooling�and then confirmed that it worked by dunking a PC motherboard into a vat of it. John Link, Microsoft�s principal program manager for product innovation, closed out Microsoft�s Build developer keynote by showing off how Microsoft innovated a new immersion cooling technology using Copilot AI without any PFAS (or what�s known as �forever chemicals�). PC boards and server racks can be cooled by air, by water, or by connecting metal heat exchangers with fluid-filled tubing that thermally routes the heat of a processor to the outside world. Immersion cooling is an extreme example of this, which uses electrically non-conductive fluids that surround the entire board. Essentially, the entire board is submerged. Water can�t be used because it would short out the system, so PFAS can be used instead�but PFAS presents environmental and health hazards. Link used what Microsoft calls Microsoft Discovery, an agentic research system. Agentic AI is Microsoft�s next big thing, and your one-on-one interactions with Copilot will soon give way to managing individual AIs that autonomously perform specialized tasks. Submerged, cooled, and running Forza.YouTube According to Microsoft, the model uses both proprietary data as well as external research to try and develop relationships between the data. In Link�s demonstration, it used both a �Knowledge Base� agent as well as a specialized chemistry agent. The example tried to exclude any proposed molecules that would violate the PFAS conditions, and that fell within a certain dielectric range and boiling points. You can watch Link�s Microsoft Build 2025 keynote closeout to see what he discovered, but it appears to be a member of the alkene family. More to the point, Link said that the discovery was promising enough that Microsoft synthesized enough of it to dunk a motherboard and PC processor inside a container of the stuff, and then ran Forza Motorsport to prove that it worked.