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Friday, Aug 2

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Britain cancels $1.7 billion of computing projects in setback for global AI ambitions

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One of the funding commitments was for the creation of a next-generation exascale computer, which would have boosted the U.K.'s AI efforts.

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Amazon's Narrowed Margins Overshadow Cloud Computing's Growth Reacceleration

www.benzinga.com

Amazon.com Inc (NASDAQ: AMZN) reported its second quarter results. Although its financials showed AWS growth has reaccelerated, this piece of good news was overshadowed by increased capital spending that pressured margins. Amazon has…

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DataCrunch.io Introduces Dynamic Pricing to Democratize GPU Computing for AI

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Dynamic pricing allows AI developers to align costs with market demand for GPUs and reduce the price of AI training and inference. HELSINKI, Aug. 2, 2024 /PRNewswire-PRWeb/ -- DataCrunch, a leading provider of cloud GPU solutions for AI,…

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Microsoft reports significant growth driven by cloud computing

Microsoft’s most recent quarterly report demonstrates a robust 10% increase in its earnings, majorly fueled by significant growth in its cloud computing sector. This has resulted in a fiscal fourth-quarter profit of $22 billion, surpassing…

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Amazon earnings jump on cloud computing strength but margins narrow

www.ft.com

Shares slip nearly 8% after surge in crucial infrastructure investments exceed net income during the quarter

Thursday, Aug 1

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US, UK accelerate quantum computing programs after China breakthrough

cointelegraph.com

China’s room-temperature time crystals could radically affect the timeline for the arrival of useful quantum computers.

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Top 6 Cloud Computing Certifications Worth Taking

Check out the top cloud computing certifications, which include offerings that focus on AWS and Microsoft Azure.

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Amazon sues Nokia for infringing multiple AWS cloud computing patents

www.techradar.com

Nokia has allegedly infringed upon 12 AWS patents, and Amazon is taking legal action to protect its hard work.

World's 'best-performing' quantum computing chip could be used in machines by 2027, scientists claim

www.livescience.com

New ion-trap chip eschews lasers for an integrated circuit that can be mass produced in existing semiconductor factories.

Tipmefast, Inc. Announces the Acquisition of Lucent Inc. to Revolutionize the Datacenter and Cloud Computing Industry by Harnessing the Power of Clean Energy

www.benzinga.com

Lucent caters to the needs of the booming AI infrastructure industry, with a specific focus on battery technologies and hybrid cloud infrastructure. The Company provides high demand solutions, including Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS)…

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Zuckerberg says Meta will need 10x more computing power to train Llama 4 than Llama 3

techcrunch.com

Meta, which develops one of the biggest foundational open-source large language models, Llama, believes it will need significantly more computing power to train models in the future. Mark Zuckerberg said on Meta’s second-quarter earnings…

Wednesday, Jul 31

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TikTok is one of Microsoft’s biggest AI cloud computing customers

www.theverge.com

A source told The Information that TikTok was paying Microsoft almost $20 million per month to access OpenAI’s models as of March, making up nearly a quarter of the revenue generated by its increasingly lucrative cloud division.

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Layered superconductor coaxed to show unusual properties with potential for quantum computing

phys.org

A team led by researchers from the California NanoSystems Institute at UCLA has designed a unique material based on a conventional superconductor—that is, a substance that enables electrons to travel through it with zero resistance under…

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Semiconductor Foundry UMC Reports Q2 Earnings Beat, Strong Q3 Demand Expected in Communication and Computing

www.benzinga.com

United Microelectronics reported a second-quarter fiscal 2024 revenue growth of 0.9% year-on-year to $1.750 billion, missing the analyst consensus estimate of $1.762 billion. Earnings per ADS of $0.17 beat the analyst consensus estimate of…

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Amazon sues Nokia in Delaware federal court, accusing Nokia of infringing 12 AWS cloud computing patents; Nokia will "review these matters and defend ourselves" (Blake Brittain/Reuters)

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Amazon sues Nokia in Delaware federal court, accusing Nokia of infringing 12 AWS cloud computing patents; Nokia will “review these matters and defend ourselves” — Amazon.com (AMZN.O) sued Nokia (NOKIA.HE) in Delaware federal court on…

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Brilliant Labs’ Frame AI Smart Glasses Review: Future Of Personal Computing

www.forbes.com

Frame is a sleek and lightweight pair of smart glasses running multimodal AI including ChatGPT. It can analyze scenes and give contextual information.

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Longstanding physics mystery may soon be solved, thanks to Einstein and quantum computing

www.livescience.com

The nature of quantum entanglement remains an outstanding problem in physics. But Albert Einstein's theories, along with insights from quantum computing, could finally put the mystery to rest.

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High-performance computing and quantum chemistry advances drug discovery

phys.org

Led by University of Melbourne theoretician and HPC expert Associate Professor Giuseppe Barca, a research team has achieved the first quantum simulation of biological systems at a scale necessary to accurately model drug performance.