AI
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Nvidia, the world's most valuable company and a key player in the artificial intelligence (AI) revolution, has once again shattered expectations with its third-quarter earnings for fiscal 2025. Yet, despite record-breaking results, the company's shares saw a surprising dip in after-hours trading. -
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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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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.
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Ooredoo Qatar has partnered with Schneider Electric to collaborate on digital transformation projects.
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Customer engagement platform Twillo has partnered with OpenAI to integrate its new Realtime API into the Twilio platform.
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Equinix has signed a joint venture agreement with Singapore’s GIC and Canada’s Pension Plan Investment Board (CPP Investments) to raise more than $15 billion in capital.
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Samsung Electronics has partnered with NTT Docomo, Japan’s largest mobile operator, to jointly research next-generation AI-enabled communications technologies.
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Google is continuing its global infrastructure expansion as it plans to launch its first data centre in Thailand.
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The US Commerce Department has updated export rules that would ease chipmakers to shipping data centre hardware to trusted end users.
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Japanese telecom giant SoftBank has reportedly agreed to invest $500 million in OpenAI while Apple has decided to drop out of backing the AI startup.
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The US government will provide $8.5 billion in funding to Intel by the end of the year, providing crucial support to the embattled semiconductor giant.
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Microsoft has struck a multibillion-dollar partnership with KT Corporation to invest in joint AI projects aimed at accelerating digital transformation in Korea.
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After much anticipation, OpenAI recently lifted the veil on ‘Project Strawberry’ unveiling o1 – an AI model designed to “think” before responding.
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OpenAI reportedly lobbied the Biden administration to build giant data centres that consume energy as much as millions of homes to support next-gen AI model development.
