AI’s Carbon Footprint May Be Bigger Than You Think
Data centers and supercomputers running AI workloads consume a lot of power, and power use causes carbon emissions. That’s generally known, but it’s not widely appreciated just how energy- ...Full Article
Nvidia Expands DGX-Ready AI Program to 19 Countries
Nvidia’s DGX-Ready Data Center Program, announced in January and designed to provide colo and public cloud-like options to access the company’s GPU-powered servers for AI workloads, has expanded the ...Full Article
Nvidia, Google Tie in Second MLPerf Training ‘At-Scale’ Round
Results for the second round of the AI benchmarking suite known as MLPerf were published today with Google Cloud and Nvidia each picking up three wins in the at-scale ...Full Article
U.S., China Surge AI Venture Investment
Surprise! Venture capital funding in AI is heating up – sorry, continuing to heat up – hitting a record high in 2018, according to GlobalData, a data and analytics ...Full Article
Applied Materials Embedding New Memory Technologies in Chips
Applied Materials, the $17 billion Santa Clara-based materials engineering company for the semiconductor industry, today announced manufacturing systems enabling new memory technologies to be deposited “with atomic-level precision” within ...Full Article
How to Overcome the AI Trust Gap: A Strategy for Business Leaders
AI is like the world, you can’t get around it – you’ve got to take it on. Numerous studies point to higher profits and productivity at companies that adopt ...Full Article
Atos, Google Cloud Bring HPC Servers to Oracle Database Workloads
Powered by Atos BullSequana S x86-based HPC servers, Oracle users can soon run database workloads in conjunction with the Google Cloud Platform (GCP). The news, announced by Atos in ...Full Article
Intel Partners with Baidu on Neural Network Training Chip
A pillar of Intel’s emerging AI product portfolio, its upcoming Nervana Neural Network Processor for training (NNP-T), will be a collaborative development effort joining Intel with Baidu, the Beijing-based ...Full Article
AI Job Postings Drop, Applicants in Short Supply
The AI boom may be peaking—at least for developers and the companies seeking to hire them. The slowdown reflects misgivings about how the technology may be applied as well ...Full Article
Smart Cities Fend off AI Winter
With all the breakthroughs in AI in recent years, it’s hard to fathom why an AI Winter would happen. But it’s actually a matter of debate at the moment, ...Full Article
