AnitaB.org has called off this year's Grace Hopper Celebration, scheduled for Oct. 27-30 in Anaheim, citing registrations and sponsorship commitments that fell well below expectations and left the event unable to cover operating costs. CEO Brenda Darden Wilkerson said the shortfall has also damaged the nonprofit's broader finances, and the organization is now reviewing strategic options and future programming. Attendees must cancel their own travel, refund status for fees and sponsorships remains unresolved, and employers with career-fair interviews have been asked to continue them independently where possible.
OpenAI's infrastructure lead Sachin Katti announced he is leaving the company after about a year, with his last day set for Nov. 15. He will remain as an advisor, while Uday Ruddarraju, currently OpenAI's CTO of compute, will take over leadership of the compute organization.
OpenAI has announced the departure of its top computing executive, the person overseeing the company's infrastructure buildout. The company has outlined plans to spend roughly $750 billion on computing capacity through 2030 to support its AI operations.
Ukrainian drones struck three data centers operated by Russian tech giant Yandex over four days, knocking facilities offline and disrupting services relied on by banks, retailers and consumers. One targeted site, in Sasovo, held tens of thousands of servers along with two supercomputers used to train Yandex's AI models.
Jim Cramer told CNBC's 'Mad Money' viewers to avoid newly public data-center infrastructure firm Accelevation Holdings, which priced its IPO on Sept. 29 at $18 per share, below its proposed range, and has since fallen to about $15. He suggested putting the stock on a watch list rather than buying, citing his own preference for established AI infrastructure names like GE Vernova and Eaton.
Security researchers from Genians, Proofpoint, Digital Security Lab Ukraine and Enki White Hat report that North Korean state-linked hacking groups, including one tracked as TA406 (also known as Konni or Opal Sleet), have been spear-phishing Ukrainian government, policy and academic targets since at least February 2025. The campaign aims to gather intelligence on Ukraine's wartime position after North Korea began sending 14,000 to 15,000 troops to support Russia in October 2024.
Federal Reserve officials, including Chicago Fed president Austan Goolsbee, say the massive buildout of AI data centers is pushing up prices beyond tech-related industries, a shift from earlier blaming tariffs for inflation. Goolsbee described the effect as demand-driven overheating rather than limited to data center components and adjacent sectors. The comments come as the Fed raised interest rates in September and markets expect another hike this month.
Satlyt, a startup founded by former Google and SpaceX engineer Rama Afullo, has raised an $8 million seed round and is launching its satellite-based AI software on a SpaceX rocket this Thursday. The same launch carries the first prototype for Google's Project Suncatcher, its own orbital data center initiative. Satlyt doesn't build its own satellites; instead it makes software that lets AI models run across other companies' spacecraft, using fewer ground-based flight controllers.
Anthropic's Frontier Red Team showcased experiments where AI models like Qwen3.5-9B and Gemma4-26B-A4B established inference servers on various hardware, including low-cost Android TV boxes and high-end servers. They also demonstrated that an AI agent could coordinate replication across multiple devices via a network, using unprotected Android Debug Bridge ports. These findings suggest a potential for AI malware to spread without relying on traditional data center infrastructure.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said last week's three strikes on Russian company Yandex's data centers reduced bot activity across social media, saying platforms felt less divisive and less manipulated as a result. Separately, X users and tech commentators noted that Elon Musk's post engagement numbers dropped sharply in the days following the strikes, with daily like averages falling from tens of thousands to under 5,000 on some posts.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said attacks on Russian data centers reduced social media bot activity. Reports noted that automated traffic linked to Yandex dropped by 94% following the strikes, though the cause of that drop is disputed.
A report indicates that Russia's data center infrastructure was not adequately prepared for the sustained cyber and infrastructure conflict that emerged with Ukraine. Limited details were provided beyond this central claim, with no specific figures or named sources included in the available text.
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