Amazon on Thursday became the latest tech company to announce swelling investments in A.I. amid stumbling share prices.
Category: Cloud Computing
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Data Centers Become Targets in Wars in Ukraine, Russia and the Middle East
The New York Times – Business:Military forces have sought to damage the computing hubs that power online services and artificial intelligence systems.
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How China’s A.I. Is Surging Across Africa
The New York Times – Business:In African tech hubs, developers are picking China’s cheap, freely available artificial intelligence models over more powerful U.S. ones.
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China Takes Supercomputer Crown From U.S. For First Time Since 2017
The New York Times – Business:A supercomputer in Shenzhen was declared the world’s fastest. It uses only standard microprocessors and not the special-purpose chips called graphics processing units.
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U.S. Tech Giants Flocked to the Persian Gulf. Now They Are Targets.
The New York Times – Business:Amazon, Google and others struck deals in the Persian Gulf to foot the bill for A.I. development. Iran has now threatened attacks against the companies’ infrastructure in the region.
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OpenAI Raises $110 Billion to Fuel Growth, Extending A.I. Boom
The New York Times – Business:Amazon, Nvidia and SoftBank led the investment, valuing the parent of ChatGPT at $730 billion.
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Microsoft Continues to Spend Big on A.I. While Profit Jumps 60 Percent
The company said on Wednesday that revenue in the most recent quarter was $81.3 billion, but its share price dropped more than 5 percent in after-hours trading.
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Why the Power May Not Go Out Until After the Storm Has Passed
The steady accumulation of snow and freezing rain and a rise in demand for electricity can cause problems long after the sky clears, energy experts said.
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Outage at Cloudflare Disrupts Parts of the Internet
Services from Cloudflare, a software company, underpin thousands of websites.