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Boom Supersonic is in trouble. United Airlines CEO Scott Kirby has publicly doubted the company's overture airliner will be ready by twenty twenty nine, and now Boom appears to be pivoting toward powering AI data centers to stay solvent. It's a striking turn for a startup that once promised to bring back supersonic passenger flight.
That AI hunger for power connects directly to our next story. Fujifilm is planning a fivefold increase in magnetic tape production by fiscal twenty twenty eight, committing over sixty three million dollars to expand its Odawara plant. It turns out the oldest storage medium in computing is quietly becoming essential infrastructure for AI data archiving, partly because offline tape is far less vulnerable to cyberattacks than networked systems.
And rounding out today's tech landscape, Intel and Oracle have announced a collaboration around agentic AI running on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure. The partnership puts Intel silicon at the center of enterprise AI workflows where autonomous agents handle complex multi-step tasks. For Intel, still working to reclaim its relevance in the AI era, this is a partnership it very much needs.
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