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Todd R. Weiss

AlmaLinux Progressing as a CentOS Linux Replacement, Now Available in Azure Marketplace
August 19th, 2021 Comments Off on AlmaLinux Progressing as a CentOS Linux Replacement, Now Available in Azure Marketplace
When Red Hat announced in December 2020 that it would no longer offer the open source CentOS Linux as a stable release and would instead only provide it as a rolling release with frequent changes under the name CentOS ...

GlobalFoundries Attempting to Derail Acquisition by Intel Through an IPO of Its Own: Report
August 18th, 2021 Comments Off on GlobalFoundries Attempting to Derail Acquisition by Intel Through an IPO of Its Own: Report
In July, reports that Intel is pursuing a $30 billion acquisition of chip fab operation GlobalFoundries threw the chip market into a tizzy, with Intel declining to comment and industry analysts offering a wide range of comments about the ...

Baidu Brain 7.0 AI Platform Announced; Baidu Kunlun II AI Chips Now in Mass Production
August 18th, 2021 Comments Off on Baidu Brain 7.0 AI Platform Announced; Baidu Kunlun II AI Chips Now in Mass Production
The latest version of Baidu’s open AI platform, Baidu Brain 7.0, has been launched by the Chinese technology company, which also announced that its Kunlun II AI chips are now in mass production. The updates were unveiled at the ...

AI Has Central Role in Helping Verizon Build Out its 5G Cell Tower Network
August 17th, 2021 Comments Off on AI Has Central Role in Helping Verizon Build Out its 5G Cell Tower Network
For years, Verizon engineers have been using a laborious process of spreadsheets and manual data crunching to figure out the best locations for where to install the company’s huge national network of thousands of cellular towers and equipment. But ...

Here Is the Amazing Backstory About Nvidia’s April GTC21 ‘Kitchen Keynote’ with CEO Jensen Huang
August 13th, 2021 Comments Off on Here Is the Amazing Backstory About Nvidia’s April GTC21 ‘Kitchen Keynote’ with CEO Jensen Huang
For 14 seconds of Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang’s “kitchen keynote” address at the company’s GTC 2021 virtual conference in April, it turns out that viewers were not actually seeing Huang. Instead, what they were seeing in that brief stretch ...

The New $10B ‘Secret’ NSA Cloud Contract Awarded to AWS Is Already in Dispute
August 11th, 2021 Comments Off on The New $10B ‘Secret’ NSA Cloud Contract Awarded to AWS Is Already in Dispute
A $10 billion ‘secret’ cloud computing contract that was recently won by Amazon Web Services from the U.S. National Security Agency quickly came under fire from Microsoft Corp., which has protested the decision. The single-award contract, which was first ...

AWS Shuffles Execs, 23-Year Veteran Charlie Bell is Out as New Leadership Takes the AWS Reins
August 10th, 2021 Comments Off on AWS Shuffles Execs, 23-Year Veteran Charlie Bell is Out as New Leadership Takes the AWS Reins
A month after Andy Jassy left the CEO’s post at Amazon Web Services (AWS) in July to replace Jeff Bezos as the CEO of Amazon, some notable changes are already coming to the AWS leadership team. Charlie Bell, who ...

Snorkel AI Gets $85M in Round C Funding to Grow Its Programmatic Data Training Mission
August 9th, 2021 Comments Off on Snorkel AI Gets $85M in Round C Funding to Grow Its Programmatic Data Training Mission
For many enterprises using AI, one of the biggest bottlenecks continues to be the difficulty in getting all their critical data into clearly sorted and labeled groups so it can be used to drive business value. Much of that ...

Spell Bringing MLOps to Deep Learning to Ease the Deep Learning Path for Enterprises
August 6th, 2021 Comments Off on Spell Bringing MLOps to Deep Learning to Ease the Deep Learning Path for Enterprises
Making machine learning operations easier to use, manage and organize for enterprises has always been the goal of the series of best practices known as MLOps. But while MLOps works well for the needed processes and commodity CPU-based infrastructure ...

Nvidia’s Proposed $40B Acquisition of Arm Faces Possible Opposition from UK Official: Report
August 4th, 2021 Comments Off on Nvidia’s Proposed $40B Acquisition of Arm Faces Possible Opposition from UK Official: Report
The proposed $40 billion acquisition of chip IP vendor Arm by GPU powerhouse Nvidia continues to be under review by regulators in the United States, China, the European Union and in the U.K., but lingering national security concerns from ...
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