Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang compares the size of the new “Blackwell” chip versus the current “Hopper” H100 chip at the company’s developer conference, in San Jose, California. Nvidia Nvidia on Monday announced a new generation of artificial intelligence chips and software for running artificial intelligence models. The announcement, made during Nvidia’s developer’s conference in San … Read more
Traders work on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange NYSE Investors should disregard concerns over high valuations and focus on growth in what is now a “stockpicker’s market,” according to Matt Orton, chief market strategist at Raymond James Investment Management. The S&P 500 closed out a two-week losing streak on Friday, but Orton … Read more
Attendees at HIMSS in Orlando, Florida 2024. Courtesy of HIMSS The hottest new technology for doctors promises to bring back an age-old health-care practice: face-to-face conversations with patients. As more than 30,000 health and tech professionals gathered among the palm trees at the HIMSS conference in Orlando, Florida, this week, ambient clinical documentation was the … Read more
The Google office in New York on February 2, 2023. Ed Jones | Afp | Getty Images Allison Croisant, a data scientist with about a decade of experience in technology, was laid off by PayPal earlier this year, joining the masses of unemployed across her industry. Croisant has one word to describe the process of … Read more
Surasak Suwanmake | Moment | Getty Images The European Union Parliament on Wednesday endorsed the world’s first major set of regulatory ground rules to govern the mediatized artificial intelligence at the forefront of tech investment. The EU brokered provisional political consensus in early December, and it was then endorsed in the Parliament’s Wednesday session, with … Read more
Tim Berners-Lee is credited with inventing the World Wide Web in 1989. But he has been dissatisfied with the way his original vision for the web has panned out. Rita Franca | Nurphoto | Getty Images Personal artificial intelligence assistants that know our health status and legal history inside out. The ability to transfer your … Read more
Ofcom said it received evidence showing Microsoft makes it less attractive for customers to run its Office productivity apps on cloud infrastructure other than Microsoft Azure. Igor Golovniov | Sopa Images | Lightrocket via Getty Images Microsoft was accused Friday of abusing the dominance of its Azure cloud computing unit to squeeze a — and, … Read more
Microsoft on Friday said that Russian group Nobelium, which the company refers to as Midnight Blizzard, has been trying to access its internal systems and source code repositories. “In recent weeks, we have seen evidence that Midnight Blizzard is using information initially exfiltrated from our corporate email systems to gain, or attempt to gain, unauthorized … Read more
OpenAI on Friday announced its new board and the wrap-up of an internal investigation by U.S. law firm WilmerHale into the events leading up to OpenAI CEO Sam Altman’s ouster. Sam Altman will also rejoin OpenAI’s board. The new board members are: Dr. Sue Desmond-Hellmann, former CEO of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, who … Read more
Shares of Teleperformance plunged 20% on Thursday, after the French call center and office services group missed its full-year revenue target and flagged a “volatile economic environment.” Investors have been spooked by the potential impact of artificial intelligence on its business model, as companies become more able to tap into the technology directly for their … Read more