• Ambarella’s Latest 5nm AI SoC Family Runs Vision-Language Models and AI-Based Image Processing With Industry’s Lowest Power Consumption

    SANTA CLARA, Calif., April 08, 2024 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Ambarella, Inc. (NASDAQ: AMBA), an edge AI semiconductor company, today announced during the ISC West security expo, the continued expansion of its AI system-on-chip (SoC) portfolio with the 5nm CV75S family. These new SoCs provide the industry’s most power- and cost-efficient option for running the latest multi-modal vision-language models (VLMs) … Read More → "Ambarella’s Latest 5nm AI SoC Family Runs Vision-Language Models and AI-Based...

  • What’s up with AI’s impact on ICT, Samsung, Huawei

    Cisco et al assess AI’s impact on ICT rolesSamsung’s profits soar in Q1Huawei faces court showdown with the US

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    TikTok Creator Reimagines Jelly Roll’s “Save Me” And It’s Beautiful

    Share on Facebook Share on Twitter I love a good cover or reimagining of a hit song. Like “Sweet Child of Mine” by the band “Taken By Trees” Or Dolly Parton’s cover

  • One man’s gruelling trip through Putin’s prison system

    For centuries, the West has been captivated by the brutality of Russia’s frozen detention centres, and prison literature from Dostoyevsky to Solzhenitsyn has nursed the fascination. The system’s global significance, whether in the mass release of dangerous prisoners to serve on Ukraine’s battlefields, the increased imprisonment of dissenters and journalists, or the death of opposition leader Alexey Navalny in a remote Arctic prison colony last month, has only spurred interest further.

  • Dell Technologies Sees Unusually High Options Volume (NYSE:DELL)

    Dell Technologies Inc. (NYSE:DELL – Get Free Report) was the recipient of some unusual options trading on Thursday. Investors acquired 139,493 call options on the stock. This represents an increase of approximately 454% compared to the average daily volume of 25,200 call options. Dell Technologies Price Performance Shares of NYSE:DELL opened at $132.69 on Friday. […]

  • Race to the gen AI edge heats up as Dell invests in SiMa.ai

    SiMa.ai's machine learning system-on-chip (MLSoC) technology, could integrate with Dell's edge computing offerings such as the PowerEdge XR series of ruggedized servers, enabling the company to deliver generative AI use cases to the edge.

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    CNN rolls the tape on Hannity’s comments towards Arizona’s legislature

    CNN’s Briana Keilar weighs in on Fox News host Sean Hannity’s comments on Arizona’s legislature saying Hannity was right in saying its legislature is almost evenly divided on Arizona’s civil-war-era abortion ban.

  • Meta’s Nick Clegg plays down AI’s threat to global democracy

    Major elections around the world so far this year have not suffered from systematic malicious interference, says global affairs chiefGenerative AI is overblown as an election risk, according to Meta’s Nick Clegg, who claims the technology is more useful for defending democracy than attacking it.Speaking at the Meta AI Day event in London on Tuesday, the social network’s global affairs chief said that the evidence from major elections that have already been run this year around the world is that...

  • George Carlin’s estate settles lawsuit over comedian’s AI doppelganger

    Suit claimed Dudesy podcast violated Carlin’s copyright, calling it ‘a casual theft of a great American artist’s work’The estate of comedian George Carlin settled a lawsuit on Tuesday against the owners of a comedy podcast who claimed they used artificial intelligence to mimic the deceased stand-up’s voice. The lawsuit was one of the first in the US to focus on the legality of deepfakes imitating a celebrity’s likeness.The Dudesy podcast and its creators – the former Mad TV comedian Will Sasso...

  • AI startup Symbolica raises $31 million to develop AI systems to compete with OpenAI

    Artificial intelligence startup Symbolica, which develops foundation models to compete with ChatGPT creator OpenAI, announced a $31 million series A funding round led by Khosla Ventures on Tuesday. General Catalyst, Abstract Ventures and Buckley Ventures also participated in the round, the company said. Symbolica has created a framework that will enable it to develop alternatives to the transformer deep learning architecture, said Symbolica CEO George Morgan, who formerly worked at Tesla on...

  • Israel’s multilayered air-defense system protected it from Iran’s drone and missile strike

    Israel’s multilayered air-defense system is credited with protecting the country from serious damage or casualties from an Iranian strike by more than 300 drones and ballistic missiles.

  • AI Spending is Not an AI Strategy: Why the Government’s Artificial Intelligence Plan Avoids the Hard Governance Questions

    The government announced plans over the weekend to spend billions of dollars to support artificial intelligence. Billed as “securing Canada’s AI Advantage”, the plan includes promises to spend $2 billion on an AI Compute Access Fund and a Canadian AI Sovereign Compute Strategy that is focused on developing domestic computing infrastructure. In addition, there is $200 million for AI startups, $100 million for AI adoption, $50 million for skills training (particularly those in the creative...