NCSC: AI to significantly boost cyber threats over next two years

Big data

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06.08.2025

A report published by the UK’s National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) warns that AI will substantially increase cyber threats over the next two years.  The centre warns of a surge in ransomware attacks in particular; involving hackers deploying malicious software to encrypt a victim’s files or entire system and demanding...

Nvidia-Arm merger in doubt as CMA has ‘serious’ concerns

Hybrid Cloud

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05.08.2025

The proposed merger between Nvidia and British chip technology giant Arm is looking increasingly doubtful as the CMA (Competition & Markets Authority) believes the deal “raises serious competition concerns”. A $40 billion merger of two...

Google places engineer on leave after claim LaMDA is ‘sentient’

Hybrid Cloud

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04.08.2025

Google has placed one of its engineers on leave after claiming the company’s LaMDA chatbot is “sentient”. The engineer in question, Blake Lemoine, is part of Google’s Responsible AI division. In a Washington Post article...

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

Data Management

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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...

Stability AI unveils 12B parameter Stable LM 2 model and updated 1.6B variant

Hybrid Cloud

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02.08.2025

Stability AI has introduced the latest additions to its Stable LM 2 language model series: a 12 billion parameter base model and an instruction-tuned variant. These models were trained on an impressive two trillion tokens...

City of Melbourne trials Nokia’s AI tech to keep streets clean and safe

Hybrid Cloud

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31.07.2025

The City of Melbourne is trialing AI technology from Nokia to help increase the cleanliness and safety of the area’s streets. The local government area is located in Victoria, Australia, and has an area of...

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

Data Management

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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...

Stable Diffusion text-to-image generator is now publicly available

CRM Management

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29.07.2025

Text-to-image generator Stable Diffusion is now available for anyone to put to the test. Stable Diffusion is developed by Stability AI and was initially released for researchers earlier this month. The image generator claims to...

MLPerf Inference v3.1 introduces new LLM and recommendation benchmarks

Data Management

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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

Data Management

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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...