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News Nov 20 2024

U.S. Congressional Commission Pushes Manhattan Project-style AI Initiative

Reuters The U.S.-China Economic and Security Review Commission on Tuesday proposed a Manhattan Project-style initiative to fund the development of AI systems as smart as (or smarter than) humans, amid intensifying competition with China over advanced technologies. The commission stressed that public-private partnerships are key in advancing artificial general intelligence (AGI), but did not offer […]

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News Nov 13 2024

Amazon Offers Computing Power to AI Researchers

Reuters Amazon Web Services (AWS) will offer computing power to researchers who want to use its custom AI chips. AWS said Tuesday it will provide credits to use its cloud datacenters to researchers who want to tap Trainium, its chip for developing AI models. AWS said researchers from Carnegie Mellon University and the University of […]

News Nov 13 2024

Japan’s $65-Billion Plan to Aid Domestic Chip Industry

Reuters Under a plan announced by Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba, the Japanese government will provide at least ¥10 trillion ($65 billion) in subsidies and financial incentives to bolster the nation’s AI and chip industries by fiscal 2030. The plan, which will be submitted to the next parliament session, will target chip foundry venture Rapidus and […]

News Nov 6 2024

Japan Taps U.S. Chip Startup to Train Engineers

Reuters Silicon Valley AI chip startup Tenstorrent will train as many as 200 Japanese chip designers at its U.S. offices over five years, as part of a deal with the Japanese government to bolster its lagging semiconductor industry. The effort is intended to jumpstart business for Japan’s Rapidus chip factory, which is slated to begin […]

News Oct 30 2024

Europe’s Datacenter Power Demand Expected to Triple by 2030

Reuters Management consulting firm McKinsey forecasts a jump in total IT load demand for European datacenters from 10 gigawatts (GW) today to 35 GW by 2030. The McKinsey report also anticipates power consumption among European datacenters will nearly triple from about 63 terawatt hours (TWh) today to 150 TWh by 2030. Datacenter infrastructure investments of […]

News Oct 25 2024

AI Decodes Oinks and Grunts to Keep Pigs Happy

Reuters An AI algorithm developed by researchers from universities in Denmark, Germany, Switzerland, France, Norway, and the Czech Republic interprets the sounds pigs make. Using the algorithm could potentially alert farmers to negative emotions in pigs so the farmers can improve their well-being, according to Elodie Mandel-Briefer at Denmark’s University of Copenhagen. From “AI Decodes […]

News Oct 24 2024

Senators Seek U.S. Review of Undersea Cable Vulnerabilities

Reuters A bipartisan group of U.S. senators has called for the U.S. to perform a security review of undersea communications cables. Their letter stated, “It is imperative that the U.S. undertake a review of existing vulnerabilities to global undersea cable infrastructure, including the threat of sabotage by Russia as well as the growing role of […]

News Oct 21 2024

FCC Opens Probe into Caps on Internet Data Use

Reuters The U.S. Federal Communications Commission (FCC) is opening a formal inquiry into why broadband providers cap data use by some customers, and how it impacts consumers and competition. FCC Chair Jessica Rosenworcel noted during COVID-19 many fixed and mobile Internet service providers refrained from enforcing or imposing data caps, “suggesting that our networks have […]

News Oct 17 2024

U.K., U.S. Set Up Working Group to Improve Children’s Online Safety

Reuters The U.S. and U.K. have announced a joint working group tasked with formulating ways to strengthen online safety for children. The first-of-its-kind trans-Atlantic government initiative will increase scrutiny of social media platforms and their impact on children. This comes as the U.K.’s Online Safety Act is nearing implementation by the year’s end. Under the […]

News Oct 11 2024

Telegram App Hosts ‘Underground Markets’ for Crime Gangs, U.N. Says

Reuters A report by the United Nations Office for Drugs and Crime (UNODC) found that Southeast Asian criminal networks are using the Telegram messaging app to conduct illicit activities on a massive scale. This includes the open trading of credit card details, passwords, browser histories, and other hacked data, as well as the sale of […]

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