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July 9, 20263 min readEducatifu Editorial

AI's Hardware Tax — Why Memory Prices and Data-Centre Power Should Be in Your 2026 IT Budget

AI data-centre demand is driving memory prices up sharply and power consumption to record highs. What the infrastructure squeeze means for ordinary IT budgets — and how to plan.

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Jul 9, 20264 min readAIChinese AI Models Now Handle Up to 46% of US Enterprise Tokens — A CTO's Decision FrameworkOpen-weight Chinese models are 60–90% cheaper than US frontier models and increasingly competitive. Here's how to weigh cost against governance, security and data sovereignty.
Jul 9, 20264 min readCybersecurityRansomware That Thinks — What JADEPUFFER Means for Your DefencesResearchers documented the first ransomware operation run end-to-end by an AI agent. It used no zero-days — just exposed, unpatched infrastructure. Here's what to do about it.
Jul 9, 20263 min readAIMicrosoft's $2.5B Services Bet — Why the Hyperscalers Now Sell Deployment, Not Just ModelsMicrosoft and AWS have committed billions to hands-on enterprise AI deployment teams. The pivot from selling models to selling outcomes tells you where the real bottleneck is.
Jul 9, 20263 min readAIPhysical AI Goes Commercial — What the Robotics Boom Means for BusinessHumanoid robots are moving from lab demos to factory floors and public IPOs. A grounded look at where physical AI actually works today — and where the hype outruns reality.
Jul 9, 20263 min readCybersecurityThe AI Rulebook Summer — What EU Companies Should Actually Watch in 2026The UN launched a global AI governance commission and the US is negotiating voluntary model-release standards. Cutting through the noise — what actually affects EU firms.
Jul 9, 20263 min readCloudThe Water Problem Nobody Mentions — Cooling the AI Data-Centre BoomAI data centres don't just consume electricity — they consume water, at scale. A look at the cooling crunch, the startups racing to fix it, and why it matters to your cloud costs.
Jul 9, 20263 min readCloudWhy Big Tech Is Buying Power Plants — The Nuclear Bet Behind the AI BoomGoogle just invested in nuclear fusion, joining a rush by hyperscalers to secure their own electricity. Here's why AI's energy hunger is reshaping how data centres get powered.
Jul 7, 20263 min readAIThe Agentic AI Gap — Why Only 11% of Companies Run AI Agents in Production38% of organisations are piloting AI agents, yet only 11% run them in production — and Gartner expects 40% of agentic projects to be cancelled. How to be in the other 60%.
Jul 7, 20264 min readCybersecurityDORA and NIS2 in 2026 — A Practical Guide for EU FirmsDORA enforcement is now active and Poland's NIS2 law took effect in April 2026. Who is in scope, what each regime demands, and a pragmatic 90-day plan.
Jul 7, 20263 min readCybersecuritySecuring AI Coding Assistants — A Practical Checklist for Engineering TeamsAI assistants now write a large share of production code — and the tools themselves have become an attack surface. Concrete controls for adopting them safely.
Jul 5, 20264 min readAIAI Fraud Detection for Fintechs: A Practical Guide for 2026How AI-based fraud detection works, what a production-grade pipeline looks like, and the pitfalls fintech teams should avoid — a practical 2026 guide.

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