Research: Enterprises and consumers want to increase AI adoption

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15.08.2025

New research from Juniper Networks has found a growing appetite from both enterprises and consumers to use AI technologies. Juniper surveyed 700 global IT decision-makers for its research and found that most (67%) executives have AI as a top strategic priority for 2021. 95 percent of the respondents believe their...

IDC: GenAI smartphones to drive global shipment growth in 2024

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11.08.2025

IDC has revised its global smartphone shipments forecast 2024, projecting a 5.8% year-on-year (YoY) growth to 1.23 billion units. The market intelligence firm’s optimistic outlook is driven by strong growth in affordable Android devices across emerging markets...

Rishabh Mehrotra, research lead, Spotify: Multi-stakeholder thinking with AI

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03.08.2025

Streaming behemoth Spotify hosts more than seventy million songs and close to three million podcast titles on its platform. Delivering this without artificial intelligence (AI) would be comparable to traversing the Amazon rainforest armed with...

Kunal Anand, F5: Shaping AI-optimised networks and enhancing security

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30.07.2025

As AI applications evolve, they place greater demands on network infrastructure, particularly in terms of latency and connectivity. Supporting large-scale AI deployments introduces new issues, and analysts predict that AI-related traffic will soon account for...

MLPerf Inference v3.1 introduces new LLM and recommendation benchmarks

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28.07.2025

The latest release of MLPerf Inference introduces new LLM and recommendation benchmarks, marking a leap forward in the realm of AI testing. The v3.1 iteration of the benchmark suite has seen record participation, boasting over...

Top 10 emerging AI and ML uses in data centres

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27.07.2025

In this week’s round-up, we share the top 10 ways AI and ML technologies are transforming the world’s data centres, driving efficiencies and sustainability Across the world’s industries, AI and ML are enabling a huge...

Salesforce to buy Informatica in $8B deal

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21.07.2025

Salesforce has agreed to acquire data management firm Informatica in a deal valued at around $8 billion. This includes equity value, minus Salesforce’s existing investment in the company. Informatica shareholders will receive $25 in cash...

GitLab’s new AI capabilities empower DevSecOps

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20.07.2025

GitLab is empowering DevSecOps with new AI-powered capabilities as part of its latest releases. The recent GitLab 16.6 November release includes the beta launch of GitLab Duo Chat, a natural-language AI assistant. Additionally, the GitLab...

ASI Alliance launches AIRIS that ‘learns’ in Minecraft

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18.07.2025

The ASI Alliance has introduced AIRIS (Autonomous Intelligent Reinforcement Inferred Symbolism) that “learns” within the popular game, Minecraft. AIRIS represents the first proto-AGI (Artificial General Intelligence) to harness a comprehensive tech stack across the alliance....

Social media algorithms are still failing to counter misleading content

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11.07.2025

As the Afghanistan crisis continues to unfold, it’s clear that social media algorithms are unable to counter enough misleading and/or fake content. While it’s unreasonable to expect that no disingenuous content will slip through the...