Digital sovereignty has been an ongoing concern for European organizations that use cloud computing services but want to retain control over their data and infrastructure. Recent geopolitical and trade tensions have only intensified those concerns, prompting European cloud customers to reassess their investments in US-owned cloud providers. Nextcloud, a German productivity and collaboration software vendor,

Cisco unveiled several AI agents meant to simplify collaboration in its Webex suite at its WebexOne event on Tuesday. The aim is to automate some of the tasks involved in work meetings via the Cisco AI assistant. “We’re squarely in the next era of AI, moving from this notion of chatbots that intelligently answer our

The Austrian Armed Forces are discontinuing the use of Microsoft Office in favor of the open-source office software LibreOffice, Heise reports. The decision covers around 16,000 workstations and is motivated by the desire for technical independence and secure data processing within its own infrastructure. Planning for the move began back in 2020 when it became

The first kick at the AI legislative can in California may have failed, but a new iteration of it succeeded with the signing into law on Monday of Senate Bill 53 (SB 53), The Transparency in Frontier Artificial Intelligence Act (TFIA), by the state’s governor, Gavin Newsom. California, he said in a statement, has proven

Adopting AI at scale can be difficult. Enterprises around the world are discovering the pace of AI deployment is frustratingly slow as they face implementation, integration, and customisation challenges. Generative AI is undoubtedly powerful, but it can be complex, particularly for businesses starting from scratch. To help organisations overcome the hurdles associated with AI adoption,

Walking into Huawei’s Shanghai Acoustics R&D Centre, I expected a standard facility tour. What I encountered instead was a comprehensive automotive sound engineering operation that challenges the established order of in-car audio systems. The facility, which Huawei has developed since beginning serious audio research investments in 2012, houses three distinct testing environments: a fully anechoic

As more companies in Asia Pacific adopt artificial intelligence to boost their operations, the pressure on data centres is growing fast. Traditional facilities, built for earlier generations of computing, are struggling to keep up with the heavy energy use and cooling demands of modern AI systems. By 2030, GPU-driven workloads could push rack power densities

AI is the cream of the crop in today’s tech field, with industries relying on generative AI to improve operations and boost productivity. One sector that using AI with measurable results is agriculture, with vegetable seed companies harnessing the technology to identify the best vegetable varieties out of thousands of options. This facility can help

Boston Consulting Group (BCG) has found a widening chasm separating an elite of AI masters from the majority of firms struggling to generate any value from their AI investments. A study from BCG found that a mere five percent of companies are successfully achieving bottom-line value from AI at scale. In sharp contrast, 60 percent

Cerebras Systems has closed an oversubscribed $1.1 billion Series G funding round, achieving an $8.1 billion post-money valuation. The AI infrastructure company, known for building the world’s fastest AI processors, attracted significant interest from both new and existing investors. Fidelity Management & Research Company and Atreides Management led the investment round. Tiger Global, Valor Equity