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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India's Department of Telecommunications (DoT) has started work to replace the Indian Telegraph Act 1885 and the Indian Wireless Telegraphy Act 1933.
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Over the last year in particular, we have seen a huge rise in demand for cloud-based services.
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Avanti Communications Group is supporting 24-year-old Olympic hopeful Laviai Nielsen as she heads to Tokyo.
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This International Women’s Day it’s time to force change and use the pandemic as a catalyst for thisI like the hashtag for this year’s International Women’s Day, #ChooseToChallenge because words are great but actions speak louder. If we want more diversity, we need to force the issue and back up our old arguments with fresh activity and hard evidence that shows our progress.
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Data Economy shares 10 news stories making headlines from around the world.
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Katsunori Sago the chief strategy officer of SoftBank Group is to leave his post, effective end of March.
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Yotta Infrastructure has unveiled plans for a US$150 million, 240Mw data centre park in Kolkata, West Bengal.
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Season 2, episode 8 is presented by deputy editor Melanie Mingas, and features editor-at-large Alan Burkitt-Gray and senior reporters Abigail Opiah and Natalie Bannerman.
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The UK's first post-Brexit budget has seen the country step away from specific targets around gigabit broadband coverage and instead focus on the concept of the "digital economy".
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Peritus.ai has joined forces with NVIDIA Inception, a program designed to nurture start-ups revolutionising industries with advancements in AI and data sciences.
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Nine of the largest global IPX carriers have joined a global initiative to improve the handling of critical IoT traffic, coordinated by the ITW Global Leaders’ Forum (GLF).
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The Raxio Group is establishing and investing in a series of state-of-the-art, privately owned, carrier neutral, data centres in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), starting with a 1.5MW facility in Kinshasa.
