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• 'It's going to appeal to a lot of investors': Carling Executive Centre on ... - Ottawa Business Journal

  25-10-2023 23:00 via news.google.com
  
  'It's going to appeal to a lot of investors': Carling Executive Centre on ...  Ottawa Business Journal
  
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• White House to issue AI rules for federal employees

  25-10-2023 21:50
  
  After earlier efforts to reign in generative artificial intelligence (genAI) were criticized as too vague and ineffective, the Biden Administration is now expected to announce new, more restrictive rules for use of the technology by federal employees.The executive order, expected to be unveiled Monday, would also change immigration standards to allow a greater influx of technology workers to help accelerate US development efforts.On Tuesday night, the White House sent invitations for a &ld
  
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• Intel's PC stranglehold could face serious challenge from Nvidia, AMD and Qualcomm

  25-10-2023 21:08
  
  Intel, long the dominant supplier of chips for Windows PC, could soon see its stranglehold on the market threatened by Arm-based CPUs from three major semiconductor makers — Nvidia, AMD, and Qualcomm.Nvidia, whose graphics processing units (GPUs) are the go-to chips for AI workloads, is now reportedly designing central processing units (CPUs) for PCs in what could be seen as an effort to challenge Intel’s dominance of the personal computing chip market. Intel had 80.6% of the deskto
  
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• Cisco unveils new AI strategy for its Webex videoconference platform

  25-10-2023 18:00
  
  Cisco has announced a new artifical intelligence strategy for its Webex videoconferencing platform, including an AI-powered assistant that can summarize meeting content and answer questions, and generative AI capabilities to improve the quality of video meetings.The announcements, which were made Wednesday at the company’s WebexOne conference, focus on three areas: audio intelligence, video intelligence and language intelligence, according to Keith Griffin, a Cisco distinguished engineer.
  
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• Google Cloud fails to cash in on generative AI

  25-10-2023 17:06
  
  The explosive growth in the demand for generative AI has been a big revenue driver for public clouds. However, while some cloud players are reaping the benefits of user demand, Google Cloud seems to be failing to cash in on one of the biggest technology opportunities in decades.As Alphabet declared its third-quarter earnings on Tuesday, all eyes were on the company’s cloud division, Google Cloud, since — even while up to now costs have outweighed sales — it has been the bigges
  
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• AI and cloud growth fuel first quarter revenue boost for Microsoft

  25-10-2023 15:20
  
  AI and cloud-fueled growth has seen Microsoft post a double-digit revenue increase during the first quarter of its 2024 financial year, despite the ongoing weakness with PC sales.For the quarter ending September 30, Microsoft generated a net income of $22.3 billion, an increase of 27%. It also reported a 13% increase in overall revenue at $56.5 billion.Ever since Microsoft-backed OpenAI brought ChatGPT into the general consciousness late last year, Microsoft has gone all in on its own AI strate
  
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• Apple’s ‘Scary Fast’ Mac event casts shade over Qualcomm

  25-10-2023 14:14
  
  While most of the world is otherwise occupied on Monday, Apple will introduce "scary fast" technologies during an evening non-public event at its Cupertino headquarters in Apple Park. While Mac users will be delighted, it will be the company’s processor competitors who must prepare for a fright.Why so? Because in the hours since the announcement of the event, the “Apple Web” seems to have agreed that the most likely product to be announced will be M3 Macs.To read this article
  
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• How to activate Chrome's fancy new Android reading enhancer

  25-10-2023 12:00
  
  Let's not beat around the bush: Most of the modern web is an absolute disaster to look at.We, erm, don't need to name any names or point any fingers here. But the vast majority of websites you land on when trying to read something leave your eyes feeling assaulted and your brain reeling from that toxic stew of visual misery.On the desktop front, we've got Google's recently rolled-out Chrome reading mode to clean up that mess and make any online article meaningfully less migraine-inducing. But o
  
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• UK workers support AI but want greater organizational transparency

  25-10-2023 09:00
  
  New research from Asana shows that although UK workers are open to the opportunities that AI can bring to the workplace, a disconnect exists between organizational plans for the technology and the current employee experience.The data is derived from a survey of 2,741 UK workers, carried out by Asana’s Work Innovation Lab, a think tank that carries out research to help businesses meet the demands of the evolving workplace.According to the findings, AI’s role in helping companies meet
  
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