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Lees meerPeter Kyle promised alternative to 'ball and chain' of legacy systems, but he has no plan and little power Comment Last week, UK minister for science, innovation and technology Peter Kyle spoke at Google Cloud Summit in London to tell the audience:…
Lees meerFormer staffers of struggling UK biz say they don’t expect to be paid for July UK cybersecurity shop Adarma has confirmed it has entered administration.…
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Lees meerWarned that ChatGPT and Copilot had already lost, it stopped boasting and packed up its pawns Google’s Gemini chatbot declined to play Chess against the Atari 2600, after learning the vintage gaming console had already vanquished other AIs.…
Lees meerWaiting for license approval but plans to resume shipments of the MI308 accelerator soon-ish The US government has cleared AMD to resume exporting some accelerators to China.…
Lees meerWarned that ChatGPT and Copilot had already lost, it stopped boasting and packed up its pawns Google’s Gemini chatbot declined to play Chess against the Atari 2600, after learning the vintage gaming console had already vanquished other AIs.…
Lees meerMP Materials aims to deliver US-made, recycled magnets by 2027 Apple has signed a deal with the only active rare earth mine under American control to begin sourcing magnets for its iDevices from the US - but not from the mine itself: Apple's going t…
Lees meerInventories stack up stateside as Apple and co prep for import tax tweaks The global smartphone industry is taking a hit from increasing uncertainty and volatility in the marketplace caused by a certain US President's unpredictable trade policies.…
Lees meerThe never Nvidia networking party just got another option Chip vendors like AMD may be closing the gap with Nvidia on GPU FLOPS, memory bandwidth, and HBM capacity, but without a high-speed interconnect and switch, like NVLink and NVSwitch, their ab…
Lees meerLooks like DoD FOMO struck Silicon Valley Updated The Pentagon's embrace of the AI industry just put up to $800 million on the table, as the Department of Defense issued a quartet of contracts bringing the biggest names in the biz officially into t…
Lees meerOutfit was accused of charging for specialist IT labor performed by uncertified folks A Maryland IT, cloud, and security consultancy will have to pay the US government at least $14.75 million to settle multiple allegations that it issued false invoi…
Lees meerWith half the AI devs in the world, if China can't build on American hardware, they'll build on their own, Jensen warns If the US military wouldn't be caught dead building supercomputers using Chinese kit, there's no reason to think the People's Lib…
Lees meerLooks like DoD FOMO struck Silicon Valley The Pentagon's embrace of the AI industry just put up to $800 million on the table, as the Department of Defense issued a quartet of contracts bringing the biggest names in the biz officially into the fold. …
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