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Wall Street Journal
5 days ago
- Business
- Wall Street Journal
Hannover Re Sticks to Guidance After Profit Rises
Hannover Re HNR1 -0.15%decrease; red down pointing triangle stuck to its guidance for the year after second-quarter net profit rose on a moderate level of claims. The German reinsurer said Tuesday that net profit for the three months ended June 30 rose to 833 million euros ($967.7 million) from 603 million euros a year prior.
Forbes
08-08-2025
- Business
- Forbes
From Humanoids To Driverless Cars: Why The Next Rung On The AI Ladder Will Require A New Kind Of Network
Ivo Ivanov is the CEO of DE-CIX. It's been a busy year for AI. So much so that the biggest tech and trade events on the calendar were dominated by it, from the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas to Hannover Messe in Germany. But what sets 2025 apart from previous years is how AI is now being framed—humanoid robots capable of conversational nuance and problem-solving, autonomous vehicles that can react in milliseconds to changing road conditions and new devices that are engineered from the ground up to deliver AI as a core function rather than just a novelty. Blink and you'll miss it, but AI is now stepping out of the cloud and into the world. This illustrates the turning point we've reached in 2025. Automation is yesterday's news. These aren't systems designed to crunch data or follow routines; rather, they're machines built to engage, react and make decisions in real time, and they're already feeling the constraints of centralized AI infrastructure. For over a decade, we've fed ever-larger models with ever-larger datasets, assuming more compute would always mean better outcomes. But inference—the act of using AI, not just training it—demands more than processing power. It demands presence and proximity. And that demand is colliding with a system designed for throughput, not immediacy. The future of AI isn't gated by model size or memory capacity. It's gated by latency—the new bottleneck, and the new benchmark, for AI in motion. Why Latency Is The New Currency For years, the AI conversation has revolved around training. Where to run it, how fast it can be done and how much GPU horsepower it will need. It's led to a boom in hyperscale data centers, sprawling training clusters and chip innovation that's breaking new ground almost monthly. But this emphasis on training has cast a long shadow over the other half of the equation: inference. Unlike training, which can be done in the background and often at a distance, inference is live. It's AI in action—detecting, responding, adapting—and it can't afford to wait. For a voice assistant to feel truly responsive, a self-driving car to process visual inputs and respond safely, a care robot to interact with its patients, the threshold of latency is in the single-digit millisecond range—and should move closer to zero over time. So, while an individual demonstration of the technology might offer a nice head rush, the reality of rolling it out (at scale) is far more sobering. As inference workloads move into physical environments, latency becomes a liability, a variable that can't be abstracted away with more compute. And the closer we try to align AI with human-level cognition and perception, the clearer the challenge becomes: milliseconds matter. The 'Triangle Of Inference'—And Its Fragility Behind every responsive AI system is a simple but unforgiving structure. Picture a triangle. On one corner sits the AI model itself, whether it's a language model parsing speech or a vision model interpreting road signs. On the other hand, there is the connected device: the robot, the vehicle, the drone or even the industrial sensor, triggering a chain of decisions. And anchoring the third corner is the transmission technology (fiber, 5G, satellite) that links them both together. In theory, it's an elegant system. But in practice, real-time AI only works when all three corners of the triangle are tightly synchronized. If the model is too far from the device, or the transmission link introduces jitter, or the compute node is overloaded, the system stalls. In this scenario, AI without immediacy is like a smartphone with a dead battery: It's intelligent, but for all its bells and whistles, it can't do what it's designed to do. This isn't a software problem that can be engineered out. You can have the best-trained model, the smartest agent and the most efficient algorithm, but if it takes too long to reach the device that needs it, the whole triangle collapses. Congested mobile networks, poorly placed infrastructure, edge devices hovering at the fringes of coverage—these are daily roadblocks to real-world deployment. What we're confronting is not a lack of AI capability; it's a systemic disconnect between compute, connectivity and context—and to solve it, we need to reevaluate how we design, deploy and optimize infrastructure. Location, Location, Location The Internet was never built for responsiveness or performance—it was simply built for reach. And for most of its history, furthering that purpose has made perfect sense. Web pages could take a few seconds to load. Streaming services could buffer. Even cloud apps could afford a few hundred milliseconds of delay. But AI has changed the stakes. Inference doesn't just need connectivity or 'reach'—it needs closeness. A response delivered a second too late might as well not arrive at all. This is where geography matters. Much of today's Internet traffic moves through what might be called digital 'flyover cities'—places where data passes through on long-haul fiber but has no way to break out locally. The infrastructure exists, but the interconnection points don't. That creates avoidable detours and latency penalties, even for traffic that originates just down the road. To keep pace with AI's demand for proximity, we need a new layer of infrastructure: small interconnection hubs distributed within 50 to 100 miles of users. These aren't full data centers or edge compute clusters—they're lean, neutral exchange points designed to keep data local when it makes sense and send it on its way smartly when it doesn't. Because if AI is going to live in our homes, cars, factories and cities, connectivity can't just exist in the usual tech hotspots. It needs to be wherever we are. 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Scotsman
11-07-2025
- Sport
- Scotsman
Another Celtic exit imminent as £4m man 'seals move to Germany'
Defender set to join Hannover on loan for upcoming season Sign up to our Football newsletter Sign up Thank you for signing up! Did you know with a Digital Subscription to The Scotsman, you can get unlimited access to the website including our premium content, as well as benefiting from fewer ads, loyalty rewards and much more. Learn More Sorry, there seem to be some issues. Please try again later. Submitting... Celtic defender Maik Nawrocki has clinched a loan deal to German side Hannover 96, according to reports. German media sources are claiming that the Bundesliga 2 outfit will take Nawrocki on loan for the 2025/26 season and have an option to buy should the Pole's spell in Lower Saxony be a success. Advertisement Hide Ad Advertisement Hide Ad Contracted to Celtic until the summer of 2028, Nawrocki has struggled to break into the first-team under current manager Brendan Rodgers during his two years at the club. He has fallen behind Cameron Carter-Vickers, Auston Trusty and Liam Scales in the pecking order and appears to have a limited future in Glasgow. Maik Nawrocki is poised to depart Celtic on loan. | SNS Group Celtic paid nearly £4million to Legia Warsaw back in the summer of 2023 for the 24-year-old centre-half, who has been capped by Poland at under-21 level. However, the Parkhead hierarchy appear content to cut their losses and let Nawrocki move on. Respected German journalist Florian Plettenberg of Sky Sports wrote on X: '🚨EXCL | Maik Nawrocki to Hannover 96 is a done deal! The 24 y/o centre-back from Celtic joins Hannover on loan with an option to buy. Medical completed. Last paperwork being finalised. Announcement soon.' The Pole is not expected to be the only departure from Parkhead this weekend, with in-demand forward Nicolas Kuhn set to join Serie A side Como. The Italians are understood to have agreed a fee in the region of £16.5m for the German, who joined Celtic 18 months ago from Rapid Vienna for just £3m. Advertisement Hide Ad Advertisement Hide Ad Celtic have prepared for the imminent departures of Kuhn and Nawrocki by bringing in Swedish forward Benjamin Nygren from FC Nordsjaelland, while Japanese defender Hayato Inamura is poised to complete his move from Albirex Niigata in the coming days.
The National
07-07-2025
- Sport
- The National
Celtic defender backed for permanent transfer exit
But he reckons his move to Celtic came too soon for the Polish defender. Nawrocki has joined Hannover on loan and the Bundesliga 2 side have an option to buy the 24-year-old if he impresses. German boss Runjaic was in charge of Legia Warsaw when they agreed to sell Nawrocki to Celtic for £4.3 million two years ago. And he's backed him to go on and prove himself in Germany. Read more: Runjaic said: "Perhaps his move to Celtic came a bit too early for him. "But I trust him to make a big impression in the second division of German football. "He is a very good guy, calm on the ball and he is very technically adept, he has a good passing game and is powerful in the air. "I would assume he has matured a lot at Celtic in Scottish football. "He can play in a back four or a back three. "He has potential and I would expect Hannover to exercise their purchase option in a year."
The Herald Scotland
07-07-2025
- Sport
- The Herald Scotland
Celtic defender backed for permanent transfer exit
Nawrocki has joined Hannover on loan and the Bundesliga 2 side have an option to buy the 24-year-old if he impresses. German boss Runjaic was in charge of Legia Warsaw when they agreed to sell Nawrocki to Celtic for £4.3 million two years ago. And he's backed him to go on and prove himself in Germany. Read more: Runjaic said: "Perhaps his move to Celtic came a bit too early for him. "But I trust him to make a big impression in the second division of German football. "He is a very good guy, calm on the ball and he is very technically adept, he has a good passing game and is powerful in the air. "I would assume he has matured a lot at Celtic in Scottish football. "He can play in a back four or a back three. "He has potential and I would expect Hannover to exercise their purchase option in a year."
