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CMA: AWS and Microsoft deny cloud discounts have anti-competitive effect on market

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Cloud customers are failing to see how the offering of committed spend discounts could contribute towards them becoming locked in to hyperscale cloud platforms, according to the interim findings of an anti-trust probe into the inner workings of the UK cloud industry.   The Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) has published the first of a…

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Actually… here’s why stealing Scarlett Johansson’s voice for ChatGPT was brilliant

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I follow everything about artificial intelligence because it’s my job. But I’d check out AI news even if that weren’t the case. And we have certainly had plenty of AI developments in the past few weeks.First, ChatGPT got the massive GPT-4o upgrade. Google unveiled even more ways it’ll integrate Gemini into its products, even if…

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AI Seoul Summit: 16 AI firms make voluntary safety commitments

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The UK and South Korean governments have secured voluntary commitments from 16 global artificial intelligence (AI) companies to safely develop the technology, including firms from the US, China and UAE. Signed during the first day of the AI Seoul Summit, the Frontier AI Safety Commitments said the companies will not develop or deploy AI systems…

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Snapdragon X Elite CPU has been put through its paces early – and appears to be every bit as strong as Qualcomm claims

4 minutes of reading / AI, Apple, Hardware, Intel, MacBook, Microsoft, Qualcomm, Snap, Tech, Twitter / By

The Snapdragon X Elite CPU delivers just as Qualcomm promised, at least according to an early review of the new Surface Laptop which has the chip as its engine.Tom’s Hardware noticed the review of Microsoft’s new notebook in which Ryan Shrout (an ex-Intel exec on the graphics side) put the new Snapdragon X Elite through…

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Infinidat adds smaller footprint G4 arrays with claimed 2x performance

3 minutes of reading / Amazon, AWS, Azure, Cloud, disaster recovery, Google, Google Cloud, Intel, Microsoft, Tech / By

Infinidat has added two HDD and flash storage array products – dubbed Infinibox G4 – that claim a 2x performance increase on predecessors by virtue of a switch from Intel to AMD central processing units (CPUs) in their triple-active controllers. The launch sees the emergence of the Infinibox SSA G4 F1400T series, which brings a…

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Nvidia’s set to supercharge Copilot+ PCs with its RTX GPUs – and maybe that’ll happen soon

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Nvidia has announced that it’s going to beef up the power of Copilot+ PCs, Microsoft’s new more powerful spin on its AI PCs, by equipping these laptops with Nvidia RTX GPUs.In a blog post, Nvidia tells us: “In the coming months, Copilot+ PCs equipped with new power-efficient systems-on-a-chip and RTX GPUs will be released, giving…

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Dell Technologies World: AI at core of Dell’s next chapter

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Fresh from celebrating the 40th anniversary of the founding of the company he still leads, Michael Dell indulged himself as he kicked off Dell Technologies World (DTW) 2024 in Las Vegas by reflecting on how far the business has come from its 1984 inception in a University of Texas dorm room. But with generative artificial…

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The Security Interviews: What is the real cyber threat from China?

9 minutes of reading / 5G, agile, Alibaba, Alphabet, Amazon, Apple, Baidu, Computer, Huawei, Meta, Microsoft, Tech, Tencent, Xiaomi / By

On 6 January 2020, when Ciaran Martin announced he was stepping down from the National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) later in the year, he had no way of knowing the UK was on the brink of the biggest public health crisis in a century, and that the NCSC’s energies were shortly to be diverted to…

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Excited about Snapdragon X Elite laptops? Forget them, says Intel, the true AI PC powerhouse CPU will be Lunar Lake

4 minutes of reading / AI, Hardware, Intel, Microsoft, Qualcomm, Snap, Tech / By

Intel has been fanning the flames of hype around its Lunar Lake CPUs, as well as dropping some info about another next-gen range, Arrow Lake.Arrow Lake will be desktop and higher-end laptop processors, whereas Lunar Lake is for laptops only and designed to be supremely power-efficient.As Tom’s Hardware reports, by way of running interference with…

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Microsoft goes all-in on AI hardware with Copilot Plus PCs

2 minutes of reading / Acer, AI, Apple, branding, Dell, HP, Lenovo, MacBook, Microsoft, Qualcomm, Samsung, Snap, Tech / By

During an AI-focused event at the company’s headquarters on Monday, Microsoft announced a new line of laptops called Copilot Plus PCs. In addition to introducing two of its own Copilot Plus PCs, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella confirmed that its partners Acer, Asus, Dell, HP, Lenovo, and Samsung are all working on their own laptops with…

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