Nine Google workers were arrested on trespassing charges Tuesday night after staging a sit-in at the company’s offices in New York and Sunnyvale, California, including a protest in Google Cloud CEO Thomas Kurian’s office. The arrests, which were livestreamed on Twitch by participants, follow rallies outside Google offices in New York, Sunnyvale and Seattle, which … Read more
Microsoft will invest US$1.5 billion in the United Arab Emirates’ top artificial intelligence firm, G42, after the Abu Dhabi-based company worked out an unusual deal with the US government to end any cooperation with China. The agreement follows behind-the-scenes negotiations between the US government and the Middle Eastern firm, in which G42 agreed to divest … Read more
Customer relations software maker Salesforce is in advanced talks to acquire Informatica, a person familiar with the matter told Reuters on Friday, in the latest sign of increased deal-making in the technology sector. A deal could be announced soon, said the source, who requested anonymity as the discussions are confidential. The price being discussed is … Read more
Google has upped the ante in the cloud race against Amazon and Microsoft with its custom-designed AI chip, Axion. This move signifies the search giant’s continued push to redefine the boundaries of computing.At its recent Cloud Next conference in Las Vegas, Google unveiled a custom-built ARM-based server chip to make cloud computing more affordable. The … Read more
Alibaba Group Holding has fundamentally changed its corporate culture to put customers first in its adaptation of technology, its co-founder Jack Ma wrote, as he stepped into a social media hubbub over the hubris that caused what was once the world’s largest e-commerce platform to lose ground to competitors. “We hacked away at the big-company … Read more
Google announced its foray into the realm of custom Arm-based server chips at the Cloud Next conference in Las Vegas, unveiling the Axion processors set to debut later in 2024. This strategic move aims to enhance affordability and performance in cloud computing, as the tech giant endeavors to compete with industry frontrunners such as Amazon … Read more
Alibaba Group Holding’s cloud computing unit has slashed prices for international customers by up to 59 per cent, as the tech giant fights to woo users amid a global race for computing resources driven by rapid artificial intelligence (AI) development. The international cloud business of Alibaba, which owns the South China Morning Post, is facing … Read more
Alibaba Group Holding’s cloud computing unit has cut prices by up to 55 per cent on more than 100 core products – the largest discount offering in the company’s history – to attract more enterprises and software developers as users in mainland China, as the adoption of artificial intelligence (AI) picks up steam across various … Read more
The cloud unit of Chinese telecommunications equipment giant Huawei Technologies is wooing overseas industry clients and expanding its global footprint with new data centres, banking on the explosive demand for generative artificial intelligence (AI), despite US sanctions. Huawei plans to open a new local cloud service in Egypt next month, adding to its 85 availability … Read more
Beijing has launched a public computing platform to support China’s artificial intelligence (AI) development at a time when the US is dialling up its export restrictions on advanced semiconductors critical to training and upscaling AI technologies. The Beijing AI Public Computing Platform, or Shangzhuang project, is operated by state-backed Beijing Energy Holding (BEH), with an … Read more
