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FAANGs under Fire: Congress, Administration Looking at Possible Antitrust, Data Ethics Abuses
The rising outcry against perceived anti-trust, data ethics and hate speech abuses of FAANG companies has sparked actions from Congressional committees, federal law enforcement agencies and regulators from both ...Full Article
NSF Gets Pushback on AI Ethics Research
The National Science Foundation is taking some heat for collaborating with Amazon to fund research on AI fairness. With proposals due at the end of June (“letters of intent” ...Full Article
Alexa Gets a Filter
Amazon’s ubiquitous voice-controlled Alexa home assistant has been re-trained by researchers using Nvidia GPUs designed for AI training and inference. The overhaul resulted in what company and university researchers ...Full Article
Nvidia Pushes Deep Learning into Datacenters, IoT
Nvidia upped the ante on GPU acceleration for deep learning with the latest release of inferencing engine that supports a range of machine intelligence applications running in datacenters as ...Full Article
Amazon’s Diversified Patent Portfolio Expanding
Amazon has long eschewed profits, preferring instead to plow capital expenditures into product innovation in sectors ranging from online retail to cloud computing. That aggressive strategy has made it ...Full Article
IBM Maintains Patent Lead, But Here Comes Amazon
Intellectual property has become the coin of the realm for technology enterprises. Hence, companies like IBM and high-flying global competitors like Samsung tout their growing patent portfolios as market ...Full Article
Amazon Enters Chip Business with ARM Platform
Amazon.com crashed the semiconductor sector this week, announcing that its Annapurna Labs Inc. subsidiary would offer an ARM-based platform-on-a-chip targeting network-attached storage and networking applications. The new chips dubbed ...Full Article
When Vendors Don’t Play Nice, the Enterprise Loses
Microsoft is leading the way to the future of the enterprise business model. This might be hard to believe considering the company’s track record of locking users into its ...Full Article
With Cloud and Mobile, Moven Brings Banking into Digital Age
Without cloud or mobile applications, startup financial firm Moven might not exist. After all, the digital-age company is using these assets to both compete and ally with traditional banks. The ...Full Article
AWS Earnings Validate Hybrid IT’s Staying Power
When Amazon revealed its much-conjectured earnings and growth for its public cloud service, Amazon Web Services (AWS), it disclosed some surprising information in its quarterly earnings report. Indeed, AWS pulled ...Full Article
