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The tech tightrope: safeguarding privacy in an AI-powered world
One of the four key themes at the World Economic Forum this year in Davos was “Artificial Intelligence (AI) as a Driving Force for the Economy and Society.” There were between 10-15 sessions that at least touched on AI, if not focused exclusively on this highly influential technology. While many…
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Amazon is making it easier to buy from SMBs
Amazon Business has unveiled a new feature set to make it easier for users to support small and medium enterprises (SMEs) with your large-scale procurement operations. The new ‘Prefer Small and Medium Enterprises’ tool is designed to boost the discoverability of the tens of thousands of SMEs operating on Amazon…
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Meta sheds more light on how it is evolving Llama 3 training — it relies for now on almost 50,000 Nvidia H100 GPU, but how long before Meta switches to its own AI chip?
Meta has unveiled details about its AI training infrastructure, revealing that it currently relies on almost 50,000 Nvidia H100 GPUs to train its open source Llama 3 LLM. The company says it will have over 350,000 Nvidia H100 GPUs in service by the end of 2024, and the computing power…
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Intel awarded billions by US government to ramp up chip production
The Biden-Harris administration has announced Intel could receive up to $8.5 billion in potential direct funding to ram up domestic production of semiconductors. The US Department of Commerce has offered Intel a non-binding preliminary memorandum of terms (PMT) to provide the funding under the CHIPS and Science act. The CHIPS…
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IT modernization is being driven by AI, security, and sustainability
Organizations are, once again, looking to modernize their IT infrastructure, with the majority seeing the use of hybrid multicloud as the way forward, driven by Artificial Intelligence (AI), security, and sustainability. This is according to the Enterprise Cloud Index (ECI), the sixth global survey and research report, published by hybrid…
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Telecoms is evolving – and unfortunately, so are DDoS attacks
If you set up a Google news alert for DDoS (distributed denial-of-service), you’d quickly be overwhelmed by the weekly attacks. It’s been relentless for 25 years, and for telcos, which lie among the pile of victims, these attacks are growing more varied. They’re getting larger, too. It’s just that the…
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