IT industry experts and analysts are still trying to piece together Nvidia’s surprise plan to pay $12.9 billion for open-source AI company Hugging Face. Nvidia dominates AI with its GPUs, and the company generates billions of dollars in revenue through a proprietary approach to the fast-moving technology. Hugging Face, onContinue Reading
The destiny of Spirit Airline’s data is still undecided, months after the company sought bankruptcy protection. AI data company Micro1 has now offered $12.5 million to acquire a trove of the company’s emails, Teams chats, operations and employee productivity data, according to a report by aviation website Simply Flying, ItContinue Reading
The next battlefield may not be overseas; it could be a computer screen, and the Pentagon wants more firepower., The next battlefield may not be overseas; it could be a computer screen, and the Pentagon wants more firepower., from Newsnation Read MoreContinue Reading
JOHANNESBURG (AP) — South African civil rights groups are calling for a halt to the construction of additional data centers in the country until the use of scarce water, land and electricity resources has been investigated. With South Africa positioning itself as Africa’s main data hub and U.S. technology companiesContinue Reading
Firmware updates on Ubuntu 24.04 LTS have got smaller, as Canonical has backported the split Linux firmware packages it introduced in 26.04. To make the change in noble, the linux-firmware package is now a meta-package that pulls in all of the individual firmware packages. Functionally, nothing changes; all installs getContinue Reading
I surprised myself this morning when I came across an interesting Apple-commissioned report — Rethinking critical AI infrastructure — I’d not seen before. It looks at the shifting expectations for AI infrastructure and recognizes that enterprise users want (and need) secure, on-device AI solutions for critical parts of their business. That’s whyContinue Reading
Nvidia has released a free tool that will enable users to build an AI inferencing cluster from disparate PCs on the same network, accessible from a single interface. Released as a beta, Nvidia Personal AI router (PAIR) connects devices running Windows, macOS or Linux to process AI inferencing workloads privately.Continue Reading
With the July 2028 Los Angeles Olympic and Paralympic Games fast approaching, airport operators across Southern California are locked in a non-negotiable race to complete massive infrastructure overhauls. Major global sporting events generate unprecedented spikes in passenger movement, placing heavy operational stress on gate availability, baggage handling networks, and securityContinue Reading
In this video, we’ll examine why Latin American airlines have become some of the world’s most profitable carriers, how Chapter 11 fundamentally reshaped the industry, and whether airlines like LATAM and Copa are really outperforming their US and European rivals.Continue Reading
Three months after launching its off-grid, solar-powered EV charging network on South Africa’s N3 highway corridor, Zero Carbon Charge (aka CHARGE) has confirmed plans to double charging capacity at both the company’s CHARGE hubs in response to growing demand. CHARGE generates solar energy on-site, delivering off-grid charging for both passengerContinue Reading
Asahi Kasei has opened a Hipore wet-process lithium-ion battery separator coating line at its Celgard manufacturing facility in Charlotte, North Carolina, establishing North America-based coating and supply capability for its wet-process separators. The coating line adds wet-process separators to a plant that has produced dry-process separators in the US sinceContinue Reading
Nvidia is buying Hugging Face for $12.93bn, confirming a deal that had been reported for the past week. The chipmaker is acquiring the platform where much of the open-source AI community stores and shares its models, while promising to leave the platform itself largely unchanged. The price values the ten-year-old company at roughly 86 timesContinue Reading
New Hubble observations have revealed a dramatic, 10-sided jet surrounding Saturn’s south pole, and it appears to be evolving before our eyes. The Hubble Space Telescope recently snapped a high-resolution view of the striking “atmospheric wave,” which appears to have begun forming in 2023, archival Hubble images show. Scientists are curious about how this “decagon”Continue Reading