Boston Consulting Group reports that while overall international mobility among highly skilled professionals has declined sharply, the competition for AI talent remains intense, with the United States losing market share in the category for the first time in recent years.…
Google announced the deprecation of multiple Imagen 4 image generation models and Veo video generation models in the Gemini API, according to the June 15, 2026 release notes. The models remain available for a limited window before scheduled shutdowns. No…
Rackspace Technology and AMD have signed a definitive agreement for the phased deployment of 30 MW of AMD-based AI compute across Rackspace’s global data centers. The deal converts a May 7, 2026 memorandum of understanding into a binding contract and…
Equinix announced an expanded collaboration with Cisco and NVIDIA to deploy the Cisco Secure AI Factory with NVIDIA across its global network of high-performance data centers. The move aims to give enterprise customers standardized blueprints and automation for AI infrastructure,…
Amazon Web Services is making a major push into Missouri with a multibillion-dollar investment in a new data center campus in Montgomery County, the company announced today. The project is expected to create more than 400 full-time data center jobs,…
Anthropic’s official Claude API deprecation documentation confirms that today, June 15, 2026, marks the retirement date for two specific versioned models. API calls using the exact identifiers claude-sonnet-4-20250514 and claude-opus-4-20250514 will now fail. The page, which serves as Anthropic’s authoritative…
AWS published its June 15, 2026 weekly roundup recapping recent infrastructure and AI tooling moves. The post, authored by Esra Kayabali, highlights new compute capacity, model availability on Bedrock, agentic tooling for cost and observability, and a maintenance mode shift…
Google Cloud has announced the complete deprecation and upcoming shutdown of Blockchain Node Engine, its fully managed blockchain node-hosting service. The service, along with associated Blockchain RPC endpoints, will be shut down on December 15, 2026, with existing nodes and…
LEGO Education has officially confirmed the retirement of its popular SPIKE portfolio, including the SPIKE Essential and SPIKE Prime sets. End of sales is scheduled for June 30, 2026, though software support for the SPIKE App will continue through June…
Microsoft/OpenAI ecosystem continues massive NVIDIA GPU intake (hundreds of thousands of GB200s reported in planning) alongside custom Maia efforts. Broader hyperscaler capex remains in the hundreds of billions annually