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Bloomberg After committing to a five-year, $1-billion rollout of Microsoft Office 365 for its approximately 1.5 million employees, Amazon has delayed the deployment for a year due to security concerns related to a Russian-linked hacker group gaining access to Microsoft employee email accounts. Amazon requested several changes, including modifying tools to verify that apps are […]

Bloomberg Nvidia has hired hundreds in China this year to enhance its research capabilities and focus on new autonomous driving technologies, say sources. The company will end the year with about 4,000 people in China, up from just about 3,000 at the start of 2024, with about 200 people added in Beijing to beef up […]

Bloomberg A bill introduced by the Malaysian government on Dec. 2 would strengthen penalties for Internet content violations and give law enforcement greater powers, including allowing any “authorized officer” to search and seize without a warrant. The law also would hold service providers liable, with representatives potentially facing arrest for violations, and require them to […]

Bloomberg Rideshare giant Uber Technologies’ gig-economy workforce now includes programmers, allowing businesses to outsource AI development to its independent contractors. The new AI training and data labeling Scaled Solutions division builds on an internal team that tackles large-scale annotation tasks for Uber’s rideshare, food delivery, and freight units. According to its website, Scaled Solutions already […]

Bloomberg The U.S. plans to provide $285 million in funding to a new semiconductor research center in North Carolina focused on digital twin technology, to be run by industry research consortium Semiconductor Research Corp. The goal is that within five years, the new institute will help speed technology development, reduce greenhouse gases associated with chip […]

Bloomberg With the hurricane season ending, meteorological agencies and tech companies are taking a look at how these new AI weather models compared to traditional ones. An analysis presented at a hurricane forecast improvement conference last week looked at how well Google DeepMind’s GraphCast performed from 2021 to 2024. It beat out the conventional models […]

T-Mobile US Inc. was able to contain a recent network breach before it reached customers’ phones, according to people familiar with the matter.

Bloomberg U.S. President Joe Biden and Chinese President Xi Jinping agreed that neithernation would turn over control of nuclear weapons to AI, the White House announced. Said White House National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan, the agreement is “an important statement about the intersection of artificial intelligence and nuclear doctrine, and it is a reflection of […]

Bloomberg An undersea data cable connecting Finland and Germany was severed Monday. The 1,200-kilometer (750-mile) high-speed fiber optic Helsinki-Rostock link serving datacenters is damaged in the Baltic Sea east of southern Sweden, and there’s a high likelihood that it’s completely cut as all of its fiber connections are down, executives of its owner and operator […]