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09 Aug

Alibaba, Tencent to Provide Snapshot of China’s Economic Landscape

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Alibaba Group Holding Ltd., Tencent Holdings Ltd. and JD.com Inc. will provide a snapshot of China’s economy and consumer sentiment, as another somber earnings season is expected in the region.The tech giants remain focused on boosting shareholder returns, so more buybacks might be in store when they report, accordingBloomberg Terminal to Bloomberg Intelligence analysts Robert Lea and Jasmine Lyu. Source link lol

08 Aug

Oracle, Google Veterans Join Nvidia-Backed CoreWeave to Lead AI

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CoreWeave Inc. hired two senior executives from Google and Oracle Corp. to build out its artificial intelligence infrastructure after the Nvidia Corp.-backed cloud computing company raised billions of dollars from investors.Chen Goldberg, who most recently served as general manager and vice president of engineering at Alphabet Inc.’s Google unit, will be the senior vice president of engineering, according to Brannin McBee, co-founder and chief development officer at CoreWeave. Sachin Jain, who was Oracle’s senior vice president of AI infrastructure and product management, will serve as chief operator officer, McBee said. They start next week. Source link lol

06 Aug

Amazon, Microsoft Keep Data Center Spending Spree Going

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Major technology companies are spending billions of dollars in capital expenditure and most of it is going for the same thing. But first... Source link lol

15 Jul

The Hidden Ties Between Google and Amazon’s Project Nimbus and Israel’s Military

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That appears to still include the IDF. WIRED identified several Israeli government statements and documents published since 2022 that confirm the IDF’s continued involvement with Project Nimbus, although they do not provide details of the tools and capabilities it uses.For instance, a government document published on June 15, 2022, that outlines the scope of the project, says "The Ministry of Defense and the IDF” will get a dedicated “digital marketplace” of services they can access under Project Nimbus.In July 2022, The Intercept also reported on training documents and videos provided to Nimbus users in the Israeli government that revealed some…

10 Jul

Amazon Ramps Up Security to Head Off Project Nimbus Protests

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Amazon appeared to have significantly heightened security for its New York Amazon Web Services Summit on Wednesday, two weeks after a number of activists disrupted the Washington, DC, AWS Summit in protest against Project Nimbus, Amazon and Google’s $1.2 billion cloud computing contract with the Israeli government. The clampdown in New York quelled several activists’ plans to interrupt the keynote speech from Matt Wood, the vice president for AI products at AWS.Amazon allowed only approved individuals to attend the keynote speech. The activists, who had registered online to attend, all received emails ahead of the conference informing them that they…

20 Jun

Europe Scrambles for Relevance in the Age of AI

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That concentration of power is uncomfortable for European governments. It makes European companies downstream customers of the future, importing the latest services and technology in exchange for money and data sent westward across the Atlantic. And these concerns have taken on a new urgency—partly because some in Brussels perceive a growing gap in values and beliefs between Silicon Valley and the median EU citizen and their elected representatives; and partly because AI looms large in the collective imagination as the engine of the next technological revolution.European fears of lagging in AI predate ChatGPT. In 2018, the European Commission issued an…

06 Jun

Former Autonomy CEO Mike Lynch Cleared in US Fraud Trial

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The objective of the defense, says Zachary Terwilliger, a former US prosecutor and partner at law firm Vinson & Elkins, was to “humanize” Lynch. “As a defense attorney, you want to make your client relatable to the jury, even if they are a millionaire,” he says. The government, meanwhile, was aiming to “beat back the defense narrative: This isn’t some folksy guy named Mike, this is Dr. Lynch. This is someone that focuses on every excruciating detail,” says Terwilliger.The bulk of the trial was taken up by testimony from more than 30 government witnesses—a ranging cast of Autonomy insiders, whistleblowers,…

03 Jun

The Big-Tech Clean Energy Crunch Is Here

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Big Tech’s appetite for energy is just about visible from the east coast of Scotland. Some 12 miles out to sea sits a wind farm, where each of the 60 giant turbines has blades roughly the length of an American football field. The utility companies behind the Moray West project had promised the site would be capable of generating enough electricity to power 1.3 million homes once completed. That was before Amazon stepped in.In January, Amazon announced it had struck a deal to claim more than half the site’s 880 megawatts of output, part of its ongoing attempt to slake…