• NB560: Microsoft Doubles Down on Custom AI Chip; CrowdStrike Brandishes Big Bucks for Browser Security Podcast:Download(30.8MB) |Embed DrewConry-Murray Johna TillJohnson Take a Network Break! • We’ve got Red Alerts for HPE Juniper Session Smart Routers and SolarWinds. • In this week’s news, Microsoft debuts its second-generation AI inferencing chip, Mplify rolls out a new Carrier Ethernet certification for supporting AI workloads, and AWS upgrades its network firewall to spot GenAI application traffic and filter Web categories. • Google takes down a massive residential proxy network used in botnets, residents of a Wisconsin town say “No” to a proposed data center project, and AT&T brings its IoT management offering to AWS. • CrowdStrike spends $420 million to acquire a browser secruity startup, Microsoft’s cloud revenue crosses $50 billion for the first time ever, and ASML posts record revenues for 2025. • Get links to all these stories below.
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