AI Career Notes: July 2021 Edition
In this monthly feature we bring you up to date on the latest career developments in the enterprise AI community – promotions, new hires and accolades: Jim Anderson Altair, ...Full Article
The Pentagon Cancels Its Controversial $10B JEDI Cloud RFP to Re-Issue It as a Multi-Cloud Proposal
Almost six months into President Joe Biden's first term as president, the administration and the Pentagon have cancelled the controversial $10 billion JEDI cloud modernization contract that was previously ...Full Article
In IBM Executive Shuffle Just Before the July 4th Weekend, IBM President Jim Whitehurst is Out
Jim Whitehurst, the former Delta Air Lines COO who joined Red Hat in January 2008 and led the open source and Linux company as it was acquired by IBM ...Full Article
Ferrari Revs Up the Performance of Its Sports Cars and Racing Team with AWS Cloud Services
Ferrari, the legendary Italian sports car builder with some 239 race victories in Formula 1, has signed a deal with Amazon Web Services (AWS) to bolster the performance and ...Full Article
Enterprise AI Adoption Up Significantly Since 2020 Amid COVID-19 Challenges, Says New Appen Study
AI budgets are up significantly over the past year as companies compete to survive and grow market share during the global pandemic, according to Appen, which published its "State ...Full Article
Intel Unveils Help for Busy Cloud Service Provider CPUs With Its New Infrastructure Processing Units
To boost the performance of busy CPUs hosted by cloud service providers, Intel Corp. has launched a new line of Infrastructure Processing Units (IPUs) that take over some of ...Full Article
AI Career Notes: June 2021 Edition
In this monthly feature we bring you up to date on the latest career developments in the enterprise AI community -- promotions, new hires and accolades: Sam Alkharrat, Ed ...Full Article
IBM Joins Effort to Build $200M AI, Cloud, Quantum Discovery Accelerator at the University of Illinois
With demands for AI, hybrid cloud and quantum computing expanding daily, IBM is joining an initiative to build a Discovery Accelerator Institute at the University of Illinois at Champaign-Urbana ...Full Article
Google’s Latest TPU v4 to Play Big Role in Google’s Growing ML Training Compute Services
GOOGLE I/O 2021 – Google CEO Sundar Pichai spoke for only one minute and 42 seconds about the company’s latest TPU v4 Tensor Processing Units during his keynote at ...Full Article
Google Cloud Data Centers to Host Ground Stations for SpaceX’s Starlink Satellite Internet Services
As Elon Musk’s SpaceX continues to build out and test its beta Starlink high-speed, satellite-based internet services, Google Cloud has signed up as a partner to host ground stations ...Full Article
