AI infrastructure
Enterprises investing in deep learning platforms need AI infrastructure sufficient enough to synthesize a massive amount of data. Find the information you need to make decisions about AI-specific compute architectures -- from GPU-packed servers to highly scalable clustered computing systems built for big data and machine learning applications.
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Tip
24 Oct 2025
How open source AI models benefit developer innovation
Discover why most businesses rely upon the benefits of open source AI models. Could open source provide companies with the resources they need to succeed? Continue Reading
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Feature
09 Oct 2025
Free isn't cheap: How open source AI drains compute budgets
As CIOs explore open source AI to escape vendor lock-in, many find rising costs in compute, talent and infrastructure. Smart cost planning is key to sustainable adoption. Continue Reading
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09 Oct 2025
Free isn't cheap: How open source AI drains compute budgets
As CIOs explore open source AI to escape vendor lock-in, many find rising costs in compute, talent and infrastructure. Smart cost planning is key to sustainable adoption. Continue Reading
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09 Oct 2025
Agentic AI architecture: An enterprise guide
Agentic architectures can work independently to automate and orchestrate complex tasks in manufacturing, retail operations and supply chains but they present several challenges. Continue Reading
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Tip
03 Oct 2025
What is AI agent memory? Types, tradeoffs and implementation
AI agents with short- and long-term memory leapfrog simple task-oriented assignments into areas of autonomy, pattern recognition, personalization and strategic business planning. Continue Reading
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02 Oct 2025
How to build your first agentic AI system
Agentic AI systems can be a value add for many businesses -- but only if they're built properly. Development teams looking to build agentic AI can use this guide to get started. Continue Reading
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Feature
30 Sep 2025
Ethical considerations of agentic AI and how to navigate them
Beyond the risks associated with traditional AI, agentic AI poses specific ethical concerns, including diminished human oversight, privacy erosion and misaligned outcomes. Continue Reading
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Definition
19 Sep 2025
What is artificial intelligence-radio access network (AI-RAN)?
An artificial intelligence-radio access network (AI-RAN) is an evolving technology that integrates AI into the conventional radio access networks (RANs) used to operate mobile networks and support network devices. Continue Reading
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Feature
18 Sep 2025
AI agent frameworks: A guide to evaluating agentic platforms
Navigate the agentic AI tool landscape and accelerate successful deployment with this comparison of AI agent frameworks, platforms and capabilities. Continue Reading
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Definition
17 Sep 2025
What is edge AI?
Edge artificial intelligence (edge AI) is a paradigm for crafting AI workflows. Continue Reading
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Feature
17 Sep 2025
Generative AI's environmental impact explained
Generative AI tools and LLMs such as ChatGPT have exploded onto the tech scene. Here's a look at what that costs the environment and how to decrease the negative impact. Continue Reading
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08 Sep 2025
5 steps for sustainable data management
Data management practices that embrace sustainability principles can streamline data processes, improve data protection and reduce energy consumption. Continue Reading
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Feature
05 Sep 2025
How AI is transforming data recovery for the modern era
Today's data recovery tools integrate AI models to analyze file systems, data structures, historical patterns and emerging threats to improve storage, protection and restoration. Continue Reading
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Tip
27 Aug 2025
How to prepare data for your RAG pipeline
Because accurate data retrieval is critical for RAG systems, development teams must implement effective data preprocessing strategies in their RAG pipeline. Continue Reading
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News
27 Aug 2025
How Meta's $10B cloud deal with Google helps it scale AI
The move favors both companies: It shows Google's leadership in cloud infrastructure and furthers the social media giant's goal of becoming the leader in AI superintelligence. Continue Reading
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Tip
27 Aug 2025
10-step guide for testing a backup and recovery plan
Failure is not an option when it comes to backing up data and recovering it if disaster strikes. Data backup testing can pinpoint potential problems in the recovery process. Continue Reading
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News
22 Aug 2025
News brief: Safeguards emerge to address security for AI
Check out the latest security news from the Informa TechTarget team. Continue Reading
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Feature
21 Aug 2025
Compare GPUs vs. CPUs for AI and machine learning use cases
Choosing which AI hardware option makes more sense for an AI or machine learning project depends on multiple factors, including speed, memory and cost. Continue Reading
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Feature
21 Aug 2025
The increasing concern of data center land acquisition
Data center land acquisition is increasing due to the growing demand for capacity and AI workloads. By 2030, facility areas are expected to triple, raising concerns about land use. Continue Reading
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News
20 Aug 2025
Mozilla.ai CEO Dickerson talks open source AI advantages
Firefox parent Mozilla's AI startup, Mozilla.ai, is focused on building open source products for enterprises to enhance IT infrastructure. Continue Reading
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Feature
19 Aug 2025
Security risks in agentic AI systems and how to evaluate threats
Agentic AI changes workflows, boosts productivity and introduces new security risks. Learn what agentic AI can do and how to make this intelligent automation system secure. Continue Reading
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Feature
14 Aug 2025
Vertical AI agents explained: The future of enterprise tech
The need for ever more AI expertise and performance has spawned vertical AI agents -- a new breed of autonomous agents purpose-built for specific industries. Learn how they work. Continue Reading
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Definition
13 Aug 2025
What is fuzzy logic?
Fuzzy logic is an approach to computing based on degrees of truth rather than the usual true or false -- 1 or 0 -- Boolean logic on which the modern computer is based. Continue Reading
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Tip
30 Jul 2025
Automated backup: How it works and why you should use it
Automated backup tackles complex data backups in concert with other automated workflows, minimizing human errors while ensuring regulatory compliance and business continuity. Continue Reading
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Feature
29 Jul 2025
Sovereign AI explained: Everything you need to know
Sovereign AI keeps AI operations within national borders, ensuring compliance with local regulations while protecting data privacy and supporting domestic innovation. Continue Reading
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28 Jul 2025
AIaaS adoption: What to overcome and how to succeed
Taking a thoughtful approach to AI as a service can ensure successful outcomes. Organizations need to know the why, what and how behind their AIaaS adoption strategies. Continue Reading
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News
25 Jul 2025
Intel cuts spending, eyes data center recovery after mixed Q2
CEO Lip-Bu Tan says the company's layoff plan is mostly complete as Intel tries to rebound after financial woes in recent years. Continue Reading
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22 Jul 2025
FuriosaAI to fuel LG Exaone LLM: Is it a challenge to Nvidia?
The South Korean semiconductor startup scored LG as its first major customer, as companies compete to take advantage of the AI boom. Continue Reading
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News
17 Jul 2025
TSMC's profit soars as AI chips boom globally
The Taiwan-based company, which manufactures a large portion of the world's semiconductors, saw booming profit and revenue in its most recent earnings report. Continue Reading
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Definition
17 Jul 2025
What is pattern recognition?
Pattern recognition is the ability to detect arrangements of characteristics in data that yields information about a given system or data set. Continue Reading
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News
16 Jul 2025
AWS launches AgentCore system and agentic marketplace
The cloud provider introduced a service that includes capabilities that help agents perform at a bigger scale. It also unveiled a new marketplace. Continue Reading
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Tip
14 Jul 2025
10 top AI hardware and chip-making companies in 2025
Due to rapid AI hardware advancement, companies release advanced products yearly to keep up with the competition. The new competitive product on the market is the AI chip. Continue Reading
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Tip
14 Jul 2025
Integrating IoT and machine learning: Benefits and use cases
With applications in industries such as manufacturing and healthcare, integrating IoT with machine learning offers a range of unique benefits. Continue Reading
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Opinion
08 Jul 2025
A look at HPE's strategy with Juniper, networking for AI
HPE's recent networking advancements and the completion of its Juniper Networks acquisition aim to reshape networking strategies for AI. Continue Reading
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Opinion
07 Jul 2025
Virtualization alternatives and AI: Lessons from HPE Discover
IT vendors continue to deliver VMware alternatives and expand infrastructure systems they offer to support enterprise AI workloads. Continue Reading
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Feature
30 Jun 2025
Why effective cybersecurity is important for businesses
Cyberattacks can have serious financial and business consequences for companies, which makes implementing strong cybersecurity protections a critical step. Continue Reading
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News
24 Jun 2025
Agentic AI at the core of HPE networking, GreenLake updates
The infrastructure titan launched several new products and services aimed at bolstering customers' appetite and abilities for AI workload optimization. Continue Reading
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24 Jun 2025
HPE beefs up AI factory-fueled offerings with Nvidia upgrades
The vendor says its upgraded Private Cloud AI will offer a turnkey tool for enterprise, leaning on agentic AI and partnerships with Nvidia and Accenture. Continue Reading
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News
18 Jun 2025
Texas Instruments injects $60B into U.S. chip manufacturing
The company will partner with Nvidia, Apple, Ford, SpaceX and others to spur domestic semiconductor production. Continue Reading
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News
11 Jun 2025
What differentiates Mistral AI reasoning model Magistral
Magistral is available in two versions. The vendor has also focused on traceable reasoning, which is important for heavily regulated industries. Continue Reading
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Opinion
04 Jun 2025
IBM delivers AI agent orchestration innovations at Think 2025
IBM's focus on AI agent orchestration, observability, and governance supports enterprise IT departments' need for a tool that spans multiple vendor platforms. Continue Reading
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Definition
03 Jun 2025
What is a target function?
A target function, in machine learning, is a mathematical representation of the ideal mapping between supervised learning inputs and outputs. Continue Reading
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Opinion
28 May 2025
AI and private cloud: 2 lessons from Dell Tech World 2025
Two key insights emerged for IT professionals around enterprise AI integration and private cloud infrastructure. Continue Reading
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Definition
22 May 2025
What is deepfake technology?
Deepfake technology is a type of artificial intelligence used to create convincing fake images, videos and audio recordings. Continue Reading
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News
20 May 2025
Dell Technologies CEO expects AI ubiquity in the enterprise
Michael Dell says he anticipates smaller, focused AI deployments for enterprise applications, but IT experts foresee challenges in adoption and security. Continue Reading
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20 May 2025
Nvidia AI platform for cloud GPU providers widens supply
The vendor is addressing the AI chip supply and demand challenge while also helping some lower-tier cloud GPU providers that are facing challenges in the GPU-as-a-service market. Continue Reading
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Definition
16 May 2025
What is an arithmetic logic unit (ALU) and how does it work?
An arithmetic logic unit (ALU) is a part of a central processing unit (CPU) that carries out arithmetic and logic operations. Continue Reading
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News
15 May 2025
Together AI acquires startup to improve data quality
The startup has a family of models for data tasks. The acquisition adds complementary capabilities to improve AI model quality. Continue Reading
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News
13 May 2025
Nvidia, AMD, others tout AI partnerships with Saudi Arabia
The U.S. tech involvement follows a long-term plan for the country to become an AI hub by 2030. Vendors get access to energy resources, and Saudi Arabia benefits from AI chips. Continue Reading
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News
09 May 2025
Datadog acquisition gives it feature flagging for AI
The move enables the vendor to integrate the startup's feature flagging software into its products. It is the second acquisition the vendor has made in the past few weeks. Continue Reading
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Feature
30 Apr 2025
4 tech companies eyeing nuclear power for AI energy
Big Tech's demand to power AI energy is driving a resurgence of nuclear power after years of skepticism. Nuclear power offers more reliable and cleaner energy for AI. Continue Reading
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News
24 Apr 2025
Nvidia, OpenAI intro tools for agentic AI, creating images
The vendors add to the numerous tools available in the generative AI market with a new system for building and managing agents and a high-quality image generator. Continue Reading
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23 Apr 2025
Tariffs not likely to undermine Nvidia's AI dominance
Tariffs and restrictions on exports could mean more competition for the world's top AI hardware company. However, the vendor will still likely keep its lead in the AI chip market. Continue Reading
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Definition
23 Apr 2025
What is agentic process automation?
Agentic process automation, also known as agentic automation, is an automation approach that integrates autonomous AI agents and advanced AI technologies to perform tasks with minimal human intervention. Continue Reading
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Opinion
15 Apr 2025
Google Cloud Next 2025: Ambition to lead AI agent ecosystem
The cloud giant delivered new tools to provide interoperability, enterprise security, powerful reasoning-capable models and low-latency infrastructure for AI. Continue Reading
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News
09 Apr 2025
Trump puts stamp on CHIPS Act deals with new office
President Donald Trump tasks a new U.S. Investment Accelerator office with managing the CHIPS Program Office and reducing businesses' regulatory burdens. Continue Reading
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News
09 Apr 2025
Google intros agent building tools and an agent protocol
The tech giant introduced a new agent development kit. It also introduced enhanced reasoning capabilities and new features for its multimodal models. Continue Reading
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03 Apr 2025
Qualcomm seeks AI expansion with possible Alphawave buy
Qualcomm eyes Alphawave acquisition and buys research firm MovianAI to enhance its AI infrastructure portfolio, which includes an AI accelerator for model inference. Continue Reading
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News
01 Apr 2025
Intel CEO Tan to revamp Intel development for AI
Intel CEO Lip-Bu Tan plans to leverage AI for semiconductor design, shed non-core assets and foster a culture of innovation to turn around Intel. Continue Reading
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Definition
31 Mar 2025
What is Nvidia?
Nvidia Corporation is a technology company known for designing and manufacturing graphics processing units (GPUs). Continue Reading
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News
27 Mar 2025
AMD teams up with Rapt AI to boost GPU performance for AI
AMD is partnering with Rapt AI to focus on workload management and performance optimization when running AI models on AMD's Instinct GPUs. Continue Reading
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Definition
27 Mar 2025
What is IT automation? A complete guide for IT teams
IT automation is the use of instructions to create a clear, consistent and repeatable process that replaces an IT professional's manual work in data centers and cloud deployments. Continue Reading
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Tip
27 Mar 2025
Advantages and disadvantages of AI explained
Is AI good or bad? AI will benefit society, according to experts, but only with the correct guidelines in place and a solid understanding of what AI systems can and cannot do. Continue Reading
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Feature
26 Mar 2025
AI existential risk: Is AI a threat to humanity?
What should enterprises make of the recent warnings about AI's threat to humanity? AI experts and ethicists offer opinions and practical advice for managing AI risk. Continue Reading
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24 Mar 2025
OpenAI targets customer service with new audio models
The models build on GPT-4o and 4o mini architecture. With it, developers can control tone so that contact center agents can effectively help customers on the other end of the call. Continue Reading
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News
21 Mar 2025
Nvidia CEO leads expert panels on quantum computing
Nvidia's Jensen Huang and experts set realistic expectations for quantum computing and discuss its place next to traditional high-performance computing. Continue Reading
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Definition
20 Mar 2025
What is neural radiance field (NeRF)?
Neural radiance fields (NeRFs) use deep learning to turn 2D images of objects or scenes into detailed 3D representations by encoding the entire scene into an artificial neural network. Continue Reading
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News
19 Mar 2025
Nvidia readies Vera Rubin to replace Blackwell
Nvidia's upcoming advanced GPUs, Blackwell Ultra and Vera Rubin, give it as much as a two-year lead over competitors, an analyst says. Continue Reading
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18 Mar 2025
Nvidia aims at agents, physical AI with reasoning models
The AI hardware and software vendor launched Llama Nemotron, a family of open source models for agentic AI. It also introduced Cosmos Reason. Continue Reading
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Definition
13 Mar 2025
What is GenAI? Generative AI explained
Generative artificial intelligence, or GenAI, uses sophisticated algorithms to organize large, complex data sets into meaningful clusters of information in order to create new content, including text, images and audio, in response to a query or prompt. Continue Reading
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News
12 Mar 2025
Intel appoints ex-Cadence CEO amid turnaround struggles
Intel appoints chip industry veteran Lip-Bu Tan as the next CEO responsible for revitalizing the struggling chipmaker and transforming it into a contract manufacturer. Continue Reading
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News
12 Mar 2025
Google's Gemma 3 can run on a single TPU or GPU
Google says the new models are user-friendly, tailored for edge devices and cost-effective. Continue Reading
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News
07 Mar 2025
Experts stunned by Trump attack on CHIPS Act
President Donald Trump challenged the CHIPS Act, favoring tariffs to attract semiconductors, despite experts arguing that subsidies have successfully drawn investment to the U.S. Continue Reading
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News
05 Mar 2025
TSMC plans $100B investment boost for US AI chip production
TSMC said its historic $100 billion investment would create thousands of construction jobs and boost U.S. capacity for AI chips. However, its time frame is fuzzy. Continue Reading
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Definition
05 Mar 2025
What is lemmatization?
Lemmatization is the process of grouping together different inflected forms of the same word. Continue Reading
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Feature
03 Mar 2025
CNN vs. GAN: How are they different?
Convolutional neural networks and generative adversarial networks are both deep learning models but differ in how they work and are used. Learn the ins and outs of CNNs and GANs. Continue Reading
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03 Mar 2025
Generative AI ethics: 11 biggest concerns and risks
As adoption and use cases grow, generative AI is upending business models and driving ethical issues such as misinformation, brand integrity and job displacement to the forefront. Continue Reading
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News
03 Mar 2025
Amazon, Google, Microsoft race for first in quantum computing
Amazon, Google and Microsoft prioritize quantum computing reliability for future enterprise applications. Continue Reading
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28 Feb 2025
Gemini vs. ChatGPT: What's the difference?
ChatGPT took the early lead among AI-generated chatbots before Google answered with Gemini. While ChatGPT and Gemini perform similar tasks, there are differences. Continue Reading
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News
27 Feb 2025
Nvidia reports strong Q4, prepares for new AI GPUs
Nvidia's revenue soared 78% to $39.3 billon, driven by strong AI GPU demand. With Blackwell's success, a more powerful variant launches later this year. Continue Reading
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News
26 Feb 2025
Cisco, Nvidia expand AI infrastructure partnership
The broader Nvidia-Cisco partnership includes Cisco building systems that combine its OS with Nvidia's Ethernet technologies for optimized AI performance. Continue Reading
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News
25 Feb 2025
IBM to buy open source data platform and AI vendor DataStax
The tech giant looks to the Astra DB creator to strengthen its Watsonx family of AI products. Continue Reading
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25 Feb 2025
Intel unveils more Xeon 6 chips for AI servers
Intel launches Xeon 6 processors, the 6700P and 6500P, targeting AI systems and multi-socket servers, and enhancing performance for enterprise applications while reducing prices. Continue Reading
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News
25 Feb 2025
Apple and the bullish AI investment trend
The iPhone maker's plans have been in the works for a while, but they speak to a larger trend in spending on technology internationally and in the U.S. Continue Reading
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24 Feb 2025
Anthropic intros hybrid reasoning model Claude 3.7 Sonnet
The model can perform both generic LLM and reasoning tasks. It is optimized for business use. The vendor also introduced an agent for generating code. Continue Reading
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News
24 Feb 2025
Can TSMC save Intel chip manufacturing?
Analysts question whether TSMC could do a better job than Intel at turning around its manufacturing operations. Continue Reading
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Definition
20 Feb 2025
What is a Kolmogorov-Arnold Network?
A Kolmogorov-Arnold Network (KAN) is a neural network architecture that dramatically improves the performance and explainability of physics, mathematics and analytics models. Continue Reading
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News
20 Feb 2025
Microsoft unveils quantum chip Majorana 1 for future advances
Microsoft unveils Majorana 1, a quantum chip with 8 qubits, aiming for 1 million. It focuses on scalability for breakthroughs in various fields despite current challenges. Continue Reading
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News
13 Feb 2025
Cisco rides the AI boon
Cisco reported a 9% revenue increase, driven by AI demand. The company plans to launch new AI infrastructure products, focusing on enterprise data center trends. Continue Reading
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Tip
13 Feb 2025
History of generative AI innovations spans 9 decades
The dominance of Nvidia chips, emerging technologies like agentic and embodied AI, and knockoffs of ChatGPT are among the latest milestones powering GenAI's business future. Continue Reading
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Guest Post
12 Feb 2025
How network engineers can prepare for the future with AI
The rapid rise of AI has left some professionals feeling unprepared. GenAI is beneficial to networks, but engineers must have the proper tools to adapt to this new change. Continue Reading
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News
11 Feb 2025
Intel loses AI head Justin Hotard to Nokia
AI and data center chief Justin Hotard will leave Intel to become Nokia's CEO as the company struggles to regain its footing in the data center market. Continue Reading
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News
07 Feb 2025
Amazon to spend $100B on AWS AI infrastructure
Amazon CEO Andy Jassy said investors will eventually be happy he spent the money on the 'biggest technology shift in business since the internet.' Continue Reading
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05 Feb 2025
Supermicro launches Nvidia Blackwell systems
The Supermicro Blackwell systems are good news for Nvidia, but enterprises should calculate the ROI carefully, an analyst says. Continue Reading
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05 Feb 2025
AMD trims delivery time for MI350
AMD plans to send samples of the rack-scale AI chip to key customers in the current quarter. Continue Reading
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04 Feb 2025
Assessing if DeepSeek is safe to use in the enterprise
The AI vendor has found popularity with its reasoning model. However, based on geopolitical tensions and safety tests, there are questions about whether enterprises should use it. Continue Reading
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News
31 Jan 2025
Intel axes Falcon Shores amid market challenges
Intel decides its limited resources would be better spent on Falcon Shores' successor, Jaguar Shores. Continue Reading
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News
30 Jan 2025
Microsoft, AWS and Cerebras launch DeepSeek-R1 model
Tech companies are making DeepSeek available on their platforms while the cost-effective Chinese AI reasoning model has its 'viral moment.' Continue Reading
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30 Jan 2025
Alibaba, DeepSeek and the shift in the AI market
The Chinese tech giant's model release a day before the Lunar New Year shows its competitiveness against AI startup DeepSeek. It also signals a shift in innovation. Continue Reading
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News
28 Jan 2025
DeepSeek's AI breakthrough challenges Nvidia's chip dominance
DeepSeek's budget-friendly AI model challenges chip giants like Nvidia and could spark competition that lowers costs and expands access in the tech industry. Continue Reading
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Podcast
28 Jan 2025
8 steps to build a successful AI strategy for your business
Customer AI strategist Bill Schmarzo explains how organizations can successfully implement AI by focusing on people, process and purpose over technology. Continue Reading
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Tip
28 Jan 2025
GAN vs. transformer models: Comparing architectures and uses
Discover the differences between generative adversarial networks and transformers, plus how the two techniques might combine in the future to provide users with better results. Continue Reading