AI
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The US Treasury Department has issued a Final Rule restricting US investments in foreign technologies deemed to pose a “national security concern,” specifically targeting sectors like semiconductors, quantum technology, and AI. -
Elon Musk has announced that xAI, his AI startup rivalling OpenAI, plans to double the size of its Colossus supercomputer cluster, which currently consists of 100,000 Nvidia GPUs.
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SK Telecom and Samsung have developed AI technology capable of optimising 5G base stations.
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Open source has been a driving factor behind the ever-continuing rise in AI. From the early days of OpenAI (before it closed its doors) and Meta’s ever-growing herd of llamas, open source AI has powered tools and technologies used by industries all over the world.
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Meta has partnered with Lumen Technologies to “significantly increase” its network capacity to meet the increased demand for its AI models and services.
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Tech Mahindra has opened a Centre of Excellence (CoE) powered by Nvidia AI Enterprise and Omniverse platforms.
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Worldwide spend on data centre hardware and software increased by 2% from the third quarter of 2019, caused by a 21% jump in spending on public cloud infrastructure, according to new Q3 data from Synergy Research Group.
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Capacity shares 5 key stories from around the world making headlines today!
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The year 2020 reshaped the technology and telco space as Covid brought new funding and demand trends.
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Econet chair Strive Masiyiwa has been appointed to Netflix board of directors.
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Capacity shares 5 key stories from around the world making headlines today!
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The English Channel is home to the busiest shipping route in the world, windfarms, and hundreds of unexploded bombs – they’re just some of the reasons why nobody has put a new subsea cable there in 20 years. But that’s all about to change. Melanie Mingas gets the details from Pioneer Consulting’s Iain Ritson
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Kao Data has named its new senior client director and business development director as it prepares for the next phase of its campus growth.
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Indians are boycotting Reliance Jio as protests over the country's agricultural reforms intensify.
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Social Media giant Facebook has been sued by the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) on the grounds of ‘anticompetitive conduct’.
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TIM and BT have signed a preliminary agreement for the acquisition of two select BT Business Units in Italy by TIM.
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The cybercrime ecosystem has become "more structured and professional", due to the huge potential rewards that have emerged during the Covid-19 pandemic.
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Long established as critical infrastructure, data centres are only becoming more important. But how can their ongoing exponential growth, occur in a future where, by necessity, major economies must decarbonise? Melanie Mingas finds out
