Source: Microsoft
Microsoft Data Sub Yields Reliability Gains
Microsoft said its two-year trial run with an underwater datacenter is a concept that holds water. The company commenced Project Natick in 2015 during a proof-of-principle deployment in the ...Full Article
Future of Fintech on Display at HPC + AI Wall Street
Those who tuned in for Tuesday's HPC + AI Wall Street event got a peak at the future of fintech and lively discussion of topics like blockchain, AI for ...Full Article
AI and IBM Watson Score to Make ESPN Fantasy Football Trades More Fair
Millions of ESPN Fantasy Football team “owners” are now able to get help from IBM and its Watson AI computing services to ensure that the player trades they make ...Full Article
Pure Storage Acquires Portworx and its Kubernetes Services
Technology merger season is upon us, with Pure Storage announcing mid-week it is acquiring Kubernetes data services specialist Portworx. In the wake of Nvidia’s blockbuster deal for Arm Ltd., ...Full Article
Nvidia Buys Arm for $40B as SoftBank Sheds Chip IP Vendor to Raise Cash
Nvidia is acquiring chip IP vendor Arm Ltd. for $40 billion from SoftBank in a blockbuster deal that catapults the graphics leader to a dominant position in the datacenter ...Full Article
Reports: Nvidia Deal for Arm Advances
Update: Sunday, Sept. 13 at 8pm ET, Arm and Nvidia announced a definitive agreement under which NVIDIA will acquire Arm Limited from SoftBank in a transaction valued at $40 ...Full Article
AI Struggles to Outperform Diagnosticians
Among the most promising medical applications for artificial intelligence is image recognition as a diagnostic tool. AI algorithms are approaching the capabilities of radiologists, and groups like the American ...Full Article
Edge Computing Seen Transitioning to ‘Intelligent Edge’
The extension of cloud computing capabilities from datacenters to the somewhat amorphous network edge, variously defined as a connected device, appliance or a network gateway, is morphing into something ...Full Article
NSF Partners with Amazon, Google, Intel, Accenture on Next Round of AI Institutes
Amazon, Google, Intel and Accenture will contribute toward a $160 million partnership for the next round of eight AI Research Institutes scheduled for creation in late 2021 by the ...Full Article
DataRobot Trains Its AI to Predict Genres Based on Album Covers
Scrolling through your music library, you may have noticed particular patterns in aesthetics among artists in particular genres. Enterprise AI firm DataRobot agrees: in a post on DataRobot’s blog, ...Full Article
