Feds, Tech Industry Mull Use of Cell Phone Data for COVID-19 Hot Spot Analytics
Google and a host of other technology companies are in discussions with the federal government and health experts over the use of Americans’ cell phone tracking data to analyze ...Full Article
Google Nation: $10B for Office, Data Center Expansion in 11 States
Google disclosed in a blog it will invest $10 billion in office and data center expansion around the U.S. this year, generating thousands of new jobs in the process. ...Full Article
‘Community-based’ Open Source on the Rise
As more enterprises embrace open source software for applications ranging from security and cloud management to databases and analytics, the steady shift away from proprietary software is coalescing around ...Full Article
AI Career Notes: February 2020 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. Here's the AI ...Full Article
Emerging AI Business Model Promotes Distributed ML
Pausing at the end of 2019 to take stock of where enterprise AI stands, a new business model floated over the last year encourages distributed model training through the ...Full Article
Doubts Surface in Open Source Survey
Open source software development is thriving, but a growing number of developers worry that momentum cannot be sustained as large corporations continue snapping up startups that helped fuel the ...Full Article
Spending Spree: Hyperscalers Bought $57B of IT in 2018, $10B+ by Google – But Is Cloud on Horizon?
Hyperscalers are the masters of the IT universe, gravitational centers of increasing pull in the emerging age of data-driven compute and AI. In the high-stakes, winner-take-all world of the ...Full Article
How the OCP NIC 3.0 is Making Hyperscale Data Centers Cooler
Managing and storing more data has forced hyperscale data center companies to reexamine not just how they build a data center but also the thousands of servers housed inside ...Full Article
Google’s ML Compiler Initiative Advances
Machine learning models running on everything from cloud platforms to mobile phones are posing new challenges for developers faced with growing tool complexity. Google’s TensorFlow team unveiled an open-source ...Full Article
AMD Launches Epyc Rome, First 7nm CPU
From a gala event at the Palace of Fine Arts in San Francisco yesterday (Aug. 7), AMD launched its 2nd generation Epyc Rome chips, based on its 7nm process ...Full Article
