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April 5, 2024

On the surface, the cloud journey for many European companies is an impressive story. It is critical for European companies to accelerate their cloud ambitions and activities. Up to $3 trillion is up for grabsfor Forbes Global 2000 companies that go beyond cloud adoption and venture into innovation and pioneering. The ability to take advantage of new technologies, particularly generative AI (gen AI), will depend on how well companies can establish and scale their cloud programs.

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April 5, 2024

As the amount of data we use and create grows, firms need to shore up their storage strategies or risk of far more expensive migrations – or even data loss – down the line. As technological innovations happen, it can be easy to forget that even the most complex systems rely on large networks of basic infrastructure to operate. At the most fundamental level, all tech products rely on effective data storage But this is easier said than done. Each byte of data has to be stored somewhere, on a rack, disk, tape, or flash device. As the world embraces hardware and software that creates data at an even faster rate, businesses will be forced to push the frontiers of data storage and evaluate their data management strategies.

April 4, 2024

The U.K. and U.S. governments announced Monday they will work together in safety testing the most powerful artificial intelligence models. An agreement, signed by Michelle Donelan, the U.K. Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology, and U.S. Secretary of Commerce Gina Raimondo, sets out a plan for collaboration between the two governments. The two AI safety testing bodies will develop a common approach to AI safety testing that involves using the same methods and underlying infrastructure, according to a news release.

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April 4, 2024

OpenAI is believed to be in talks with Microsoft to construct a massive supercomputer code-named Stargate containing millions of AI accelerators at a cost of up to $100 billion. Stargate would reportedly be the largest in a series of AI supercomputers built by Microsoft for OpenAI over the next six years and could consume as much as five gigawatts when complete. Finding enough carbon-free energy to power such a system without completely derailing Microsoft's aggressive eco-promises could, however, prove troublesome. Even the largest nuclear power plant in the US, the Palo Verde Generating Station west of Phoenix, Arizona, can only muster 3.3 gigawatts of electric power from its three reactors.

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April 2, 2024

A new method allowed scientists in the UK to send data 4.5 million times faster than average broadband, setting a new world record. Aston University developed an optical amplifier that allows data wavelengths to operate in the E-band, which researchers say is about three times wider than traditional wavelengths used for data transmission. Before this breakthrough, no one was able to emulate E-band channels in a controlled way. The breakthrough could be a revolution in internet speeds across the spectrum of users.

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March 28, 2024

Oregon Governor Tina Kotek has now signed one of the strongest US right-to-repair bills into law. Oregon’s SB 1596 will take effect next year, and, like similar laws introduced in Minnesota and California, it requires device manufacturers to allow consumers and independent electronics businesses to purchase the necessary parts and equipment required to make their own device repairs.“We need to cut down the insane cycle of churning through personal electronics — and that starts by empowering repair,” Nathan Proctor, the Public Interest Research Group’s (PIRG) right to repair campaign senior director, “Oregon’s nation-leading Right to Repair law will keep devices working and off the scrap heap."