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 and substantial interest in generative AI-capable smartphones in premium segments. IDC’s senior research director, Nabila...
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...
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...
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...
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 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 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...
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....
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...
Apple’s aim to integrate Qwen AI into Chinese iPhones has taken a significant step forward, with sources indicating a potential partnership between the Cupertino giant and Alibaba Group Holding. The development could reshape how AI...