Nvidia has made its KAI Scheduler, a Kubernetes-native graphics processing unit (GPU) scheduling tool, available as open source under the Apache 2.0 licence. KAI Scheduler, which is part of the Nvidia Run:ai platform, is designed to manage artificial intelligence (AI) workloads on GPUs and central processing units (CPUs). According to Nvidia, KAI is able to…
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Formed in 1975, Microsoft is currently celebrating its 50th anniversary, having powered the personal computing revolution first with MS-DOS, and then with Windows. In the 1980s, it demonstrated – thanks to the IBM Project Chess, one of the first personal computers – that business computing could be accessed by anyone and wasn’t simply a task…
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One of the interesting developments right now is the intersection between artificial intelligence (AI) and Web3. From the creation of AI agents integrated into Web3 decentralised applications to the impact of generative AI on Web3 gaming, Web3 is once again at the forefront of technological innovation. However, if Web3 companies want to capitalise on these…
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In streaming on X, Elon Musk’s xAI announced its new Grok-3 AI model, which has “more than 10 times” the computer power of its predecessor. According to a test conducted by the company, the new Grok-3 outperforms all the players, including DeepSeek’s V3, OpenAI’s GPT-4o, and Google’s Gemini.In addition, xAI added to Grok-3 the magical…
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Following the removal last week of Russian Linux kernel maintainers to comply with US policies, Linus Torvalds – the developer of the original Linux kernel – spoke about his concerns that there were lots of Russian trolls who could potentially infiltrate the Linux kernel. The decision to block the maintainers followed a compromise of the…
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Every digital leader likes to think their work helps boost a greater cause. For James Fleming, CIO at the Francis Crick Institute, that value-adding element is a core element of his job. “I go to sleep at night thinking that I’m helping cure cancer with computers,” he says, reflecting on his everyday roles and responsibilities.…
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Software asset management (SAM) has evolved from simple back-office record-keeping to more complex licence and contract management that integrates innovative technologies such as artificial intelligence (AI), machine learning (ML) and generative AI (GenAI). Successful SAM implementations save on licence costs, improve compliance and reduce true-ups. They also improve software utilisation, enabling firms to derive more…
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In this podcast, we look at storage features expected in Kubernetes 1.31 with Sergey Pronin, group products manager at Percona, which develops open source products for SQL and NoSQL databases. Pronin talks about storage functionality expected in this week’s 1.31 release, but also what he sees as some of the gaps in terms of storage…
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Meta, the parent company of Facebook, WhatsApp and Instagram, has reported second-quarter revenue of $39.1bn, a 22% increase on its first quarter. The company reported that the cost of revenue had increased by 23%, driven primarily by higher infrastructure costs and costs associated with inventory in its augmented headsets division, Reality Labs. In his prepared…
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The Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) is looking into whether Alphabet’s partnership with Anthropic is anti-competitive. There appears to be an arms race going on in the tech sector for artificial intelligence (AI) talent and capabilities, which is leading the UK regulator to consider whether partnerships between major tech firms and AI startups are healthy…
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