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AI, automation to take center stage as IT demands surge: Salesforce survey

A new survey from Salesforce has revealed that AI and automation will be critical drivers for enterprise IT teams as they contend with growing demands of a turbulent macroeconomic environment. The research, conducted between February and April 2023, involved 4,000 IT decision-makers from North America, Latin America, Asia-Pacific and Europe. It looked at these leaders’ mindsets, top priorities…
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Sarah Silverman vs. AI: A new punchline in the battle for ethical digital frontiers

Generative AI is no laughing matter, as Sarah Silverman proved when she filed suit against OpenAI, creator of ChatGPT, and Meta for copyright infringement. She and novelists Christopher Golden and Richard Kadrey allege that the companies trained their large language models (LLM) on the authors’ published works without consent, wading into new legal territory. One week earlier, a class action…
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Cerebras unveils world’s largest AI training supercomputer with 54M cores

Cerebras Systems, the AI accelerator pioneer, and UAE-based technology holding group G42, have unveiled the world’s largest supercomputer for AI training, named Condor Galaxy. The network of nine interconnected supercomputers promises to reduce AI model training time significantly, with a total capacity of 36 exaFLOPs, thanks to the first AI supercomputer on the network, Condor Galaxy 1 (CG-1)…
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PlusMusic.ai uses AI to create in-game soundtracks

PlusMusic.ai, a first-of-its-kind adaptive audio AI platform, is using AI to streamline the process of creating and integrating music into games. The company is aiming to revolutionize the future of in-game soundtrack creation and music as downloadable content (DLC) revenue…
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How high-performance computing at the edge fuels AI, AR/VR, cybersecurity and more

This article is part of a VB special issue. Read the full series here: The future of the data center: Handling greater and greater demands. In recent years many data centers have transitioned from a centralized model to an edge computing approach. This brings computing closer to the point of use, reducing latency and improving performance.  The impetus for this change has been a surge in…
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