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AI Seoul Summit: 10 nations and EU recommit to safe inclusive AI

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Ten governments and the European Union (EU) gathered at South Korea’s AI Seoul Summit have signed a joint deceleration laying out their “common dedication” to international cooperation on artificial intelligence, affirming the need for them to “actively include” a wide range of voices in the ongoing governance discussions. Signed 21 May 2024, the Seoul Declaration…

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Neom: The tip of the tech iceberg in the Saudi desert

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Even if only a fraction of what is planned gets implemented in Saudi Arabia’s Neom smart city project, it may still provide a huge boost to the country’s high-tech ecosystem. Robert Mogielnicki, senior resident scholar at The Arab Gulf States Institute in Washington, says: “If you click through all the different components of the Neom…

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Broadcom/VMware: Joining the dots to migrate off VMware

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This week, there have been a few product announcements that illustrate the opportunity some IT firms see in targeting existing VMware users who are not happy with how the product is changing under Broadcom. The acquisition of VMware by Broadcom completed at the end of 2023. Broadcom has a strategy to move companies from perpetual…

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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

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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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Women in Data: BAE Systems’ CDO on why diversity in data matters

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Working with wild gorillas and rescue gibbons isn’t the traditional route into a career in data and technology. But for Johanna Hutchinson, chief data officer (CDO) at BAE Systems, it made perfect sense. Until the age of 30, Hutchinson worked as a primatologist. Whether monitoring gorillas in Central Africa, living in tents for months at…

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Leak shows Gigabyte motherboards for Intel Arrow Lake CPUs pack some kind of mysterious AI feature

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Gigabyte has a bunch of motherboards in the pipeline for Intel’s next-gen Arrow Lake processors, and they come with an unsurprising twist – the inclusion of AI (well, everything has to have AI these days, right?).The leak of eight Gigabyte Z890 motherboards for Arrow Lake is also telling in that this is another piece of…

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Amazon wants to turbocharge Alexa so it can compete with ChatGPT

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With generative AI being all the rage these days, it’s no surprise that Amazon is finally entering the mix. According to a report from CNBC, Amazon has plans to completely overhaul Alexa, the company’s popular voice assistant. The report notes that the upcoming version of Alexa will be more conversational as to more ably compete with…

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G-Cloud 14: Overseas suppliers risk non-compliance as CCS changes stance on UK VAT requirements

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The Crown Commercial Service (CCS) is accused of sending mixed messages to non-UK-based cloud service providers that want to participate in the UK government’s G-Cloud procurement framework. The closing date for supplier applications for the 14th iteration of the cloud purchasing agreement passed on 7 May 2024, with CCS targeting an autumn 2024 start date…

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Knowledge24: ‘You can’t go it alone’ in life, says actress Viola Davis

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During the ServiceNow Knowledge24 user conference in Vegas, actress, author and producer Viola Davis said: “I did not start with a leap, but rather with a series of staggers where I went from one little safe place to the next.” Sharing career advice, Davis talked about how important it is to share the series of smaller…

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UK government announces £8.5m in grants for AI safety research

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Digital secretary Michelle Donelan has announced that the UK government will provide up to £8.5m in grants for artificial intelligence (AI) safety research, during the second day of the AI Seoul Summit. While the overall research programme will be headed up by the UK’s AI Safety Institute (AISI), which was established in the run-up to…

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