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Microsoft has unveiled its first in-house developed DPU, or data processing unit, to equip its cloud servers with an extra performance boost.
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Nebius has launched its first GPU cluster as the AI infrastructure continues its North American expansion.
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The latest court filings in Elon Musk’s existential AI lawsuit against OpenAI revealed more fascinating insights, including a discussion about potentially acquiring sizable semiconductor firm Cerebras and Musk’s desperation to be CEO.
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The Frontier supercomputer has lost its crown as the world’s fastest supercomputer to El Capitan, the new exascale supercomputer hosted at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory.
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SK Telecom has launched a customer service centre tool driven by a proprietary AI model tailored to enhance agents' handling of customer queries.
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Google DeepMind’s Demis Hassabis and John Jumper have won the 2024 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for their work using AI to uncover the complex structure of almost every protein known to science.
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Geoffrey Hinton, one of the godfathers of AI, has won the 2024 Nobel Prize in Physics for his work on artificial neural networks.
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Ericsson is teaming up with SoftBank to develop AI radio access network (RAN) solutions to boost network efficiency and performance.
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A study from software provider SAS looking at generative AI adoption across various sectors found telcos were among those racing ahead to take advantage of the technology’s potential.
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Google and Vodafone have unveiled a 10-year partnership aimed at revolutionising the use of artificial intelligence (AI) and cybersecurity services for millions of customers across Europe and Africa.
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Kapa.ai, a startup developing AI assistants for complex technical support, has secured $3.2 million in funding.
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Meta is set to take on OpenAI’s Sora model with its own AI video generation system: Movie Gen.
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Oracle unveiled plans to invest more than $6.5 billion to expand its AI and cloud services to Malaysia.
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The UK Telecoms Innovation Network (UKTIN) has launched an AI-powered R&D Discovery Toolkit to make it easier for UK operators to experiment with AI technologies.
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Cerebras Systems, creator of dinner plate-sized AI chips, has filed for an IPO to fund its ambitious challenge to Nvidia's dominance in the AI hardware market.
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In its largest investment in Italy, Microsoft has unveiled a €4.3 billion initiative to expand its cloud and AI infrastructure and train over one million Italians by 2025.
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ChatGPT creator OpenAI has finally closed its long-awaited funding round, raising $6.6 billion in what is the largest venture capital round in history to continue its efforts in developing next-generation AI models.
