Go Habs Go Sorry Canada, Nintendo Switch 2 pre-orders have also been delayed to align with conditions “to be determined in the US” Following a delay to American versions of the Switch 2, it looks like Canada is also getting hit with delays. Image credit: Nintendo News by Connor Makar Staff Writer Published on April 8, 2025 It looks as though Nintendo Switch pre-orders to Canadian gamers will be delayed past the April 9 intended date, according to a statement released by Nintendo Canada to MobileSyrup. The statement, which MobileSyrup states was recieved by Nintendo of Canada, reads as follows, "Pre-orders for Nintendo Switch 2 in Canada will not start on April 9, 2025 in order to align with the timing of pre-orders to be determined in the U.S. Nintendo will provide updated information at a later date. The launch date of June 5, 2025 is unchanged.” To see this content please enable targeting cookies. This comes in the wake of a similar delay that hit American Nintendo fans last Friday, which Nintendo said was so it could "assess the potential impact of tariffs and evolving market conditions". These conditions being the established tariffs that the USA has levied against countries like China, Vietnam, and more. Those two named countries being relevent as that's where the Switch 2 is being manufactured. Especially given increasing trade tensions between the USA and China, such tariffs would assuredly increase the price of buying the Nintendo Switch 2 in the USA. Why Canada has been hit by a similar delay is a bit less clear. Nintendo establishes in the statement that it's to "align with the timing of pre-orders to be determined in the US", but why that's important isn't expanded upon. Perhaps Nintendo is worried about consumers ordering consoles via Canadian middle men services to avoid extra costs, or simply wants to keep North American timings aligned as to not show preferential treatment to one country over the other. Are you Canadian and were hoping to order a Switch 2 tomorrow? Let us know below, as well as how you feel about this development.

Subscribe to Nintendo Life on YouTube806k Nintendo's latest entry in its Switch 2 'Creator's Voice' series is with the good folk over at Supergiant Games for a deep dive on Hades II. Alongside an extended look at the game itself, the new video also contains a neat tidbit for us Nintendo fans: Hades II will launch on Switch and Switch 2 before other consoles. We still don't have a precise release date for the roguelike sequel just yet, though the above video specifies that it will be "Launching first for consoles on Nintendo Switch 2". The developer was quick to clarify on Twitter that the game will also be arriving on Switch 1 on the same day as its ver. 1.0 release on PC, where it has been in early access since last year.Subscribe to Nintendo Life on YouTube806kWatch on YouTube The game's predecessor felt made for Switch when it arrived back in 2020, with its pick-up-and-play gameplay loop slotting in nicely with the console's hybridity — and our embarrassing number of play hours proves it. After so much anticipation, it will be interesting to see whether the sequel scratches the same itch when it arrives on our beloved Nintendo consoles. Based on our hands-on experience with the game's early access build, we imagine this will prove to be quite the time sink again. Switch successor release, then? Chronos-triggered! Will you be picking up Hades II on Switch or Switch 2? Let us know in the comments. [source youtube.com, via x.com] Related Games See Also Share:2 2 Jim came to Nintendo Life in 2022 and, despite his insistence that The Minish Cap is the best Zelda game and his unwavering love for the Star Wars prequels (yes, really), he has continued to write news and features on the site ever since. Hold on there, you need to login to post a comment... Related Articles Where To Pre-Order Nintendo Switch 2 Update: Nintendo pre-orders live in Europe today (with an invite!) It's Official, Switch 2 Joy-Con Will Not Feature Hall Effect Sticks Controllers have been designed from the ground up Nintendo Switch 2 Direct: Time, Where To Watch, What To Expect It's time for Switch 2 Nintendo Is (Kinda) Returning To Region-Locking With A Cheaper Japanese Switch 2 Priced 49,980 yen, which is around $333 USD

On Monday, the “de-extinction” startup Colossal Biosciences announced its most ambitious results to date: the dire wolf. These are creatures that have been extinct for more than 12,000 years and made famous by the HBO show “Game of Thrones.” These white, fluffy animals live on a 2,000-acre preserve in a location so secretive that journalists, including from TechCrunch, who were invited to view the live animals, were not invited to the compound itself, located in the northern United States. Instead we flew to another secretive location to see the animals with our own eyes because in this age of AI, a photo can’t be trusted.   There we saw two six-month-old males named Remus and Romulus, each already weighing about 80 pounds. They looked to an inexperienced eye like very big wild dogs with slightly larger skulls and an elongated muzzle. In addition to Remus and Romulus, the company’s engineered dire wolf pack includes a female named Khaleesi, who is two months old. Colossal Biosciences dire wolf pupsImage Credits:Colossal Biosciences But the company says that there’s very little that’s ordinary about them. Colossal’s dire wolves are the result of an 18-month effort based on the genes found in the fossils of a 13,000-year-old tooth and a 72,000-year-old skull of the extinct animals. When Colossal Biosciences announced its latest fundraise at a $10.2 billion valuation earlier this year, the company’s co-founder and CEO Ben Lamm told TechCrunch he believed the startup was undervalued given its actual scientific progress. Given the common startup tendency to overstate capabilities, it wasn’t easy to take Lamm’s claims at face value, particularly since Colossal’s ambitious de-extinction projects for the woolly mammoth and Tasmanian tiger were not slated for completion until 2028. Since then, the company introduced breakthroughs that Colossal hoped would quell the skeptics’ doubts about its scientific advancements. Last month, the company announced that it engineered a mouse with mammoth-like fur. The woolly mice generated a lot of excitement.  But clearly, with the dire wolves, the company has taken its animal creation to a new level. The company’s researchers compared the ancient DNA with the gray wolf and found that the species are 99.5% genetically identical. The scientists then used CRISPR technology to edit gray wolf cells with 20 genes that govern the dire wolf’s outward appearance. The genetically modified cells were turned into embryos, which were implanted into a large domestic dog, who then gave birth to the dire wolf pups. The result, the company claims, is the first extinct species to be brought back to life. Other scientists are skeptical But many scientists who are not working for Colossal question whether they represent a true species revival. “It is an impressive feat of genome editing, but I would not call it de-extinction,” David Gold, a professor of Paleobiology at UC Davis, told TechCrunch. “They have taken a grey wolf and modified some of its genes to mimic a dire wolf, making a sort of grey wolf / dire wolf hybrid. These animals are not being raised in a pack by other dire wolves, and they are not hunting in the wild, so I suspect their behavior will be different from a real dire wolf as well.” That sentiment was echoed by Alexander Young, a professor of statistical genetics at UCLA, who wrote on X, “This seems massively overhyped. ‘Creating the dire wolves called for making just 20 edits in 14 genes in the common gray wolf.’ In other words, it’s not a dire wolf – it’s a gray wolf modified to be more like a dire wolf. That’s a cool achievement but they have not ‘brought the dire wolf back’ sorry.” When asked if the grey wolf genes that were edited aimed specifically at changing the external manifestations of the animal, George Church, Colossal co-founder and professor of genetics at Harvard University and MIT, told TechCrunch, “Some of them are aimed at the skull, which I think is internal.”   He added that only 0.3% of gray wolves’ genes were altered to make the dire wolf, and the remaining 0.2% variation was ultimately left unchanged. Ben Lamm, co-founder and CEO Colossal Biosciences Image Credits:Colossal Biosciences The reason Colossal didn’t use all of the dire wolf’s recovered genes is because the scientists were worried those genes could cause deafness and blindness, Lamm said. “We felt, from an ethics perspective, we would not put that gene in there.” Since we know that Remus, Romulus, and Khaleesi are not 100% identical to the animals that roamed the world until about 12,000 years ago, can we really call them de-extincted dire wolves?    According to Gold, that’s essentially a philosophical question. Another question is: Why dire wolves? Saving red wolves The idea for recreating the dire wolf came to Colossal by “sheer accident,” Lamm said. “We got additional capital and were looking at additional species we could work on.” Dire wolves represented the ideal confluence of factors for a cash-rich startup that claims to be ethically conscious and has many entertainment-savvy investors on its cap table. “We like to pair de-extinction with conservation projects,” Lamm said. A couple of years ago, Lamm and Matt James, the chief animal officer at Colossal, learned from the government of North Carolina that red wolves are nearly extinct, with fewer than 12 animals still roaming around the state. The state had been trying to save them from disappearing. That discovery coincided with discussions with North Dakotan indigenous groups about the sacredness of wolves in their culture. And then, the company brought on George R.R. Martin, the writer of the “Game of Thrones” books, as an adviser to the company. Colossal Biosciences red wolf Image Credits:Colossal Biosciences “It became this perfect Venn diagram. We can bring back a species that’s culturally relevant, that our indigenous partners care about, and we can use the technologies to save the red wolves,” Lamm said. The technology that Colossal used to engineer its dire wolves was also applied to create four red wolf clones. The company plans to make more red wolves and eventually re-wild them, which could save their species from extinction and increase biodiversity. As for the plans for the dire wolves, Lamm said the company will likely create about five more animals so they can live in a pack, as wolves tend to do. Colossal is also talking to indigenous communities about possibly re-wilding the dire wolves on their lands. For now, the company scientists and animal specialists are spending time monitoring their creations’ behavior and health. Is this really a $10B+ business? Then there’s another kind of question altogether: Is the science that Colossal has demonstrated enough to entice investors to fund the company at escalating valuations. Time will tell, but there are reasons to believe it could. Lamm has laid out several potential revenue sources for the company. Colossal has already spun out two companies and plans to spin off three more businesses over the next two years, one of which will be for its artificial womb technology, which could have applications in fertility treatment. The company may also one day start charging governments for help with endangered animal conservation. (Colossal currently provides its conservation technology at no cost, Lamm said.) Finally, if the company successfully resurrects and reintroduces any of the species into their respective ecosystems, it may be able to generate revenue through the sale of biodiversity credits, a market-based mechanism similar to carbon credits.

Days after completing it’s Desktop Metal acquisition, Nano Dimension has appointed Ofir Baharav as its Chief Executive Officer (CEO), effective immediately. His appointment follows his tenure as Chairman of Board of Directors (BoD), having been elected by activist shareholder Murchinson in December 2024. As Chairman, he has implemented several strategic changes aimed at enhancing the company’s operational efficiency and market competitiveness. Baharav brings nearly three decades of experience in capital equipment for the electronics industry and additive manufacturing. His previous leadership roles include CEO of Maxify, VP Products at Stratasys, CEO at Xjet, EVP Products at Credence Systems, and President at Optonics, reflect a consistent focus on transformation and technological innovation. As Nano Dimension continues to pursue profitability and shareholder value, Baharav’s expertise is expected to play a key role in guiding the company’s efforts. Having served as Interim CEO, Julien Lederman will continue as Nano Dimension’s Chief Business Officer (CBO). His responsibilities include post-merger integration, communications, investor relations, operational planning, and performance tracking. The leadership transition also involves the departure of Zivi Nedivi, President, and Tomer Pinchas, Chief Financial Officer (CFO) and Chief Operating Officer (COO). Baharav has stepped down from the Board, with Robert Pons, assuming the role of Chairman, who previously served as a board member since December 2024. “Mr. Baharav’s proven ability to drive strategic change and operational efficiency is precisely what Nano Dimension needs at this critical juncture,” said Pons. “His deep industry expertise and leadership will be instrumental in navigating the integration, achieving rapid profitability, and delivering significant value to our shareholders.” David Stehlin, a Board Director added, “His combined expertise in electronics and additive manufacturing is uniquely suited to our strategic direction, ensuring we capitalize on the significant opportunities ahead.” Nano Dimension’s new CEO Ofir Baharav. Photo via Ofir Baharav/LinkedIn. Operational overhaul and strategic focus under Baharav’s leadership Following his appointment as Chairman, Baharav initiated a series of measures aimed at improving operations and governance. He has redirected research and development (R&D) efforts and sales towards high-value applications where the company aims to maintain long-term competitiveness.  Additionally, he implemented cost-cutting measures projected to save over $20 million annually by year-end, with further reductions anticipated from post-merger operational consolidation. Negotiations with the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States (CFIUS) successfully removed restrictions on post-merger cost reductions and synergy realization, enabling the company to pursue operational efficiencies.  Baharav also proposed amendments to the Articles of Association which is pending shareholder approval, and eliminated the poison pill mechanism to improve transparency and alignment with shareholder interests. As part of efforts to strengthen its market position, Nano Dimension reorganized field operations to enhance sales performance in the U.S. and China. To ensure greater accountability, Baharav established comprehensive performance metrics and reporting systems to support data-driven decision-making. His leadership is marked by efforts to streamline operations, reduce expenses, and focus on innovation in high-performance applications. In a statement, Baharav says, “It is a privilege to lead Nano Dimension in creating value for shareholders, working with a talented cohort of colleagues and partnering with industry leading customers.” Nano Dimension, which now includes Desktop Metal and has plans to acquire Markforged for $115 million, is restructuring to build a scalable digital manufacturing business focused on high-value applications and consistent financial performance. “I want to thank Mr. Lederman for his leadership during this time, and I look forward to working closely with him,” said the new CEO. What 3D printing trends should you watch out for in 2025? How is the future of 3D printing shaping up? To stay up to date with the latest 3D printing news, don’t forget to subscribe to the 3D Printing Industry newsletter or follow us on Twitter, or like our page on Facebook. While you’re here, why not subscribe to our Youtube channel? Featuring discussion, debriefs, video shorts, and webinar replays. Featured image shows Nano Dimension’s new CEO Ofir Baharav. Photo via Ofir Baharav/LinkedIn.

A pollinator garden and public greenhouse are among the new features to be added to the San Antonio Botanical Garden (SABG). Last June, the garden announced Reed Hilderbrand, SO – IL, and others would renovate the 38-acre campus. This month, Reed Hilderbrand, the landscape architects, shared renderings that visualize the longterm, $8.3 million strategic masterplan. The masterplan, Reed Hildebrand said, will further position SABG as an educational and cultural hub for the city. It introduces new access programs aimed at underserved parts of San Antonio, and is informed by lengthy community input sessions. New envisioned features include an immersive pollinator garden and meadow, and the renewal of the Texas Native Trail, representing the three ecological regions of Texas. SO – IL is designing a new Horticultural Campus and Public Greenhouse for the site. In renderings these structures have translucent roofs and rounded, conical massing that echos that of the Emilio Ambasz–designed Lucile Halsell Conservatory. The contribution by SO – IL arrives as the office engages in another prominent landscape project, a pavilion at Art Omi in Chatham, New York. The masterplan prioritizes improving circulation and accessibility. (Courtesy SABG and Reed Hildebrand) “We have loved working with the full-hearted community of the Garden to set this new vision together,” Beka Sturges, Reed Hildebrand principal, said in a statement. “Appealing to the senses and spirit, our plan opens up the horticultural campus for education and enlivens the center of the garden with an immersive pollinator meadow. We’re welcoming more people from across San Antonio to a future centered on conservation.”Shading structures and tree canopies will help provide comfort in the warmest months. (Courtesy SABG and Reed Hildebrand) Today, pathways within SABG are often disjointed and hard to navigate, creating a confusing visitor experience. The design, Reed Hildebrand added, prioritizes pedestrian circulation inside SABG. The reimagined pathways will offer moments of pause and comfort, framed by “ribbons of gardens.” Carefully graded routes will eliminate stairs, ensuring accessibility for those with mobility limitations. Shade structures, tree canopies, and rest stations will be interspersed throughout the campus; this will be especially appreciated during midday heat. Local residents will have access to community gardens. (Courtesy SABG and Reed Hildebrand) The masterplan considers the longterm maintenance of the gardens and grounds. (Courtesy SABG and Reed Hildebrand) “We are working hard to create a future where conservation and sustainability are at the heart of everything we do,” noted Katherine Trumble, SABG president and CEO. “Our programs are designed to help individuals and communities reduce their environmental impact while enriching their lives through nature.” Other collaborators include consultants that will address economic, sustainability, grounds management, and engineering needs: James Lima Planning & Design, Thornton Tomasetti, Tim Marshall/ETM Associates, and San Antonio’s Pape Dawson. The strategic masterplan is slated for completion in the next 10–15 years.

“the siddhi of the soul” (2025), rose quartz, wood, plaster, plaster gauze, the shine of the full moon on my mother’s face while saving my sister’s life, pyrite, joy, the ecstasy of creativity, marble tile, astroturf, for how it is to know that you are but a splinter of the whole and also entirely whole the same time, a revelation of lapis, citrine, the way that clouds are creative, a loosing against old ways of power, a healing song sung just of breath and now-ness, amethyst, 3 quilts and the love of jill and Dev, the hands of dev, the hands of jordan, the hands of our collective soul, strawberry quartz, fish key chains, a mammy creamer in the eye, hematite, butterflies made by the artist, a muse against cruelty, for how it is to be alive inside of this holy soul, magic., 65 x 36 1/2 x 36 1/2 inches. All images © vanessa german, courtesy of the artist and Kasmin, New York, shared with permission vanessa german Channels Metaphysical Healing Powers in a Series of Monumental Assemblages April 8, 2025 ArtSocial Issues Kate Mothes Meaning “perfection” or “attainment,” the Sanskrit word siddhi describes a kind of powerful spiritual energy attained through meditation and mindfulness. To be a siddha is to be accomplished—to achieve a level of optimum spiritual wellbeing. For vanessa german (previously), making sculpture is a spiritual practice with the power to confront systemic social issues and conjure a sense of community. In GUMBALL—there is absolutely no space between body and soul, german’s solo exhibition at Kasmin, “the siddhi of the soul,” for example, lists rose quartz, wood, plaster, and marble tile along with “…the way that clouds are creative, a loosing against old ways of power, a healing song sung just of breath and now-ness…” “the emergence, or, on considering the transformative nature of the dragon fly as told by Richard Rudd.” (2025), we dance here don’t we bend out our bones and loose our spirts free in an agreement of birth and suffering, wood, plaster, plaster gauze, lapis, sodalite, blue kyanite, quartz, rose quartz, dyed howlite, turquoise, bottles, blue things at the bottom of the sea, languishing, morganite, blue amber eye bee—for seeing the unseen inside of your own self, the deep grief of it all , the light from the wound, blue pigments, a white snake for transformation, a solid fearlessness, grace, onyx, obsidian, rhinestones, cut glass, a host of possibilities, magic and loving that keeps making itself new, over and over again., 64 x 40 x 38 inches german’s monumental new series of sculptural heads are conceived as “cosmic maps, proposing a cartography for a sacred place that embraces the full creative potential of all people,” says an exhibition statement. Drawing inspiration from ancient Mesoamerican Olmec heads, which were carved from basalt and measure, in some cases, more than 11 feet tall, the artist channels heft and gravitas. The descriptions of her pieces are a far cry from standardized lists of raw materials; combining lyrical and autobiographical references, the accompanying texts complement each work’s inspiration, process, and inherent energy. Beads, glass, ceramics, wood, recycling, astroturf, found objects, and more are complemented by myriad emotions and memories like “joy,” “languishing,” and “the way that black girls—in my youth—could speak their own language by chewing and popping gum.” She incorporates minerals and stones like quartz, onyx, and obsidian, transmitting their metaphysical healing properties. The exhibition is organized into two complementary presentations, including the mixed-media heads and a series of fallen figures. The latter strike poses that reflect vogue dancers’ “death drops” in ballroom competitions, in which they fall to the floor as if mimicking death, then use one leg to bounce back up. Title TBD (2025), 36 x 24 x 14 inches The fallen figures’ heads are replaced with porcelain racist caricatures, “reclaiming power from their white counterparts,” says a statement. Mirroring the voguing technique, each dancer emphatically rebounds from not only the illusion of death but from bigotry, systematic oppression, and violence toward the LGBTQ+ community and those who interrogate social norms. GUMBALL—there is absolutely no space between body and soul continues through May 10 across two of Kasmin’s Chelsea locations in New York City. Explore more on german’s Instagram. Detail of “the emergence, or, on considering the transformative nature of the dragon fly as told by Richard Rudd.” “lover, lover, lover boi” (2025), arm trans women, existence cannot be non-existence, get over it, love, love, love, wood, plaster, plaster gauze, bottle cap chain, forgiveness, clear quartz, cut glass, titanium dyed geodes, onyx, obsidian, shungite, Smokey quartz, beaded glass trim, the grief always, the opposite of self loathing, a Native American beaded hat from a trading post near what we now call, “the Grand Canyon.” Heat, starlight, the dance of all ages, kissing and fucking for the peace and joy of it all, anatomical heart model, mammy note pad body with original pencil, cut glass ring holder, quartz points from the land we now call, “Arkansas”, cowboy salt shaker, a snake for the bite and shrugging off of the passage of time., 77 x 31 x 34 inches “you own soul is a true magic” (2025), wood, marble tile, love, red glass beads, rose quartz, onyx, obsidian, shungite, Smokey quartz, lapis, agate, candelabras, joy, a found wooden foot, ceramic birds, pyrite, sodalite, emerald with quartz, black beaded text, sitting down in the soul for a made-up song, mirror, amethyst, beaded key chains from guatamala, astroturf, agate, morganite, creativity as antidote, silence, dancing, forgiveness., 70 x 43 x 36 1/4 inches Detail of “you own soul is a true magic” Title TBD (2025), 26 x 16 x 11 inches “GUMBALL, or, Gloriously Underestimated Magical Bounty As Living Love. Or, An Invitation to Contemplation at the pace of One’s own Divine Soul.” (2025), gemstones and minerals: tigers eye, onyx, obsidian, rose quartz, morganite, lapis, aragonite, citrine, agate, dyed jade, titanium heated geode, spirit quartz. Cut glass crystal, fish key chains, a love song to the Soul of it all, a house in which to grow wise in a manner with allows no violation to the being, wood, hand blown glass gumball, ceramic figurine, pink prayer beads, prayers of grace and the intimacy of loneliness giving into the knowing of deep and true wholeness, light, astroturf, joyous angelic presence, the levity of the Buddha—HA HA. Love, memories of my grandmother, plaster, plaster guaze, cardboard, obsidian lucky foot, 3-4 bags of my/the artist’s recycling, a laying on of hands and a release into the grace of being held outside of one’s own mind, joy, ceramic butterflies, the way that black girls—in my youth—could speak their own language by chewing and popping gum, beaded flowers, hope, newness, porcelain tile, slow down, it’s going to be ok., 87 x 47 1/2 x 43 1/2 inches Detail of “GUMBALL, or, Gloriously Underestimated Magical Bounty As Living Love. Or, An Invitation to Contemplation at the pace of One’s own Divine Soul.” Title TBD (2025), 36 x 22 x 14 inches Next article

Getty Images/iStockphoto News IBM boosts AI mainframe capabilities with Z17 IBM continues to try to break out of the mindset that mainframes are just for transaction processing. The latest server offers greater AI capabilities By Cliff Saran, Managing Editor Published: 08 Apr 2025 15:45 IBM has unveiled its newest mainframe computer, the Z17, which it claims has redefined artificial intelligence (AI) at scale. The next generation of the company’s mainframe system is powered by an IBM Telum II processor, and has been optimised, according to IBM, to run workloads such as generative and agentic AI. In terms of AI, IBM said the Z17 enables enterprises to run analytics on all of their transactions in real time, and has the ability to process 50% more AI inference operations per day than its predecessor, the Z16.  The Z17 AI inferencing capabilities are powered by what IBM calls “a second-generation on-chip AI accelerator” that it said has been built into the IBM Telum II processor. The AI accelerator offers increased frequency, compute capacity, plus a 40% larger cache, which IBM said enables it to run more than 450 billion inferencing operations in a day, with a response time of one millisecond.  The Z17 also offers IBM’s Spyre Accelerator, which will be available later in the year. This provides additional AI compute capabilities to complement the Telum II processor. According to IBM, the combination of Spyre and Telum II accelerators means the Z17 can support multi-model AI. Spyre adds generative AI capabilities to the Z17, which IBM said enables the mainframe system to run large language models (LLMs) and AI assistants securely. Discussing how this will help enterprises that use the Z17, Ric Lewis, senior vice-president of infrastructure for IBM, said: “The industry is quickly learning that AI will only be as valuable as the infrastructure it runs on. Only 1% of the enterprise data is part of large language models. With Z17, businesses can put their untapped enterprise data to work for AI in a secure, cost-effective way.” IBM has also added AIops capabilities as part of the Z17 by including IBM Watsonx Code Assistant for Z and IBM Watsonx Assistant for Z. IBM said Watsonx Assistant for Z will be integrated with Z Operations Unite to provide AI chat-based incident detection and resolution for the first time using live systems data. Read more mainframe stories Opening up mainframe data, one utility at a time: Freeform Dynamics recently caught up with VirtualZ, an often overlooked vendor of connectivity tools that bridge the gap between the mainframe, cloud and on-premise IT platform worlds. Integration of AI, legacy IT opens partner opportunities: Core in-house applications running on client-server systems and mainframes are candidates for a generative AI update, according to IT service provider executives. Along with the Z17, the company announced IBM Z Operations Unite, which brings together operational data from multiple sources across IBM Z, in OpenTelemetry format, which it said streamlines IT operations with AI. According to IBM, the IT tool helps admins detect anomalies quicker, enabling them to isolate the impact of potential incidents and reduce the resolution time from hours to minutes. IBM Z Operations Unite provides what IBM claims is “intelligent correlation of events from multiple sources”. It also works with Watsonx Assistant for Z, which can provide expert advice and enable the IT operations team to take actions based on this guidance. IBM has also taken steps to help its customers deploy quantum safe encryption. IBM chief product officer Tina Tarquinio said: “We have quantum safe encryption on our system and we are now introducing new tools to help our clients get on this quantum safe journey quicker.” She described the deployment of quantum safe technology as “a heavy lift” involving switching encryption algorithms. In The Current Issue: Interview: The role of IT innovation at Royal Ballet and Opera ‘Bankenstein’ and a cold calculation means banking crashes will continue Download Current Issue Turning data into gold: the business intelligence story – Data Matters Google Cloud VP: Beyond monolithic AI into heterogeneous harmony – CW Developer Network View All Blogs

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Stocks in AI companies were among the biggest losers after President Trump announced sweeping tariffs on foreign trading partners last week, in a sign that those tariffs could be bad news for the industry.The companies at the forefront of the AI industry are currently spending hundreds of billions of dollars on building new datacenters to train AI models. Tariffs will increase the already gargantuan costs of those efforts, analysts say.“The tariffs will make building AI datacenters much more expensive, both because AI servers are largely imported and will face tariffs, at least until supply chains can be rejigged, and because much of the other equipment in datacenters, like the cooling and power infrastructure, is imported as well,” says Chris Miller, author of Chip War.Chips themselves, the key computing hardware inside AI datacenters, are exempt from Trump’s tariffs—but only if they are imported to the U.S. as standalone products. However, most chips are not imported into the U.S. as raw materials; instead, they arrive already-packaged inside products like servers, which are subject to tariffs. Worried AI investors received good news on Monday in a note circulated by analyst Stacy Rasgon, who pointed out that most Nvidia servers are likely to escape the bite of Trump’s tariffs. That’s because most appear to be assembled in Mexico, and therefore benefit from a tariff exemption under a free trade agreement. That’s a “silver lining” to the news, says Rasgon, a semiconductor industry analyst at Bernstein Research. (Nvidia declined to comment.)“I think there are some workarounds to avoid massive tariffs on AI infrastructure in the U.S., which is good because otherwise what’s the whole point of this?” says Rasgon. “We’d be making the U.S. the most expensive place in the world to build out AI infrastructure—that doesn’t sound like a great thing.”But construction materials, computer parts, cooling infrastructure, and power supplies are just some of the costs that are likely to increase as a result of the tariffs. The costs could be so great that companies might consider building datacenters abroad instead of in the U.S., says Lucas Hansen of the Civic AI Security Program, a nonprofit. Datacenters already tend to congregate where power is cheap, he says. “It’s possible that tariffs are one more additional incentive for building those datacenters abroad.”The increased costs of datacenter construction create a “real risk,” Miller says, that the U.S. might begin losing ground to China in the AI race—victory in which is a key foreign policy goal of the Trump Administration. “It has already been a major challenge to build all the datacenter capacity we need” in the U.S. to stay ahead of China, Miller says. “Now datacenter construction will get meaningfully more expensive.”“The short term impact will be significant, and the long term impact is unclear—and companies can't plan for the long term because tariff rates will likely keep changing,” Miller adds.Even if Trump creates more carveouts to ease the pain on the datacenter industry, the changes to the macroeconomic climate wrought by Trump’s trade war might create new headwinds for AI companies. “My bigger worry is more macro now: we go into recession, ad spending falls off, and the hyperscalers in general have less money,” says Rasgon, referring to the tech companies spending heavily on AI. Collapse in demand for AI and datacenters, plus supply chain chaos, might follow, he adds. “This doesn’t feel like a strategy,” Rasgon says of the tariffs. “This is just a grenade.”The increases in datacenter costs will probably make it more expensive for companies to train AI systems in future. But this is unlikely to mean that using AI gets moreresearch by Epoch AI, as a result of algorithmic efficiencies, hardware improvements, and pricing competition. In other words, a year from now, using a given model will probably require significantly less computing power (and therefore money) than it does today. So even if Trump’s tariffs do add to the cost of datacenter components, researchers say AI usage is likely to continue to get cheaper over time.