1 min read Last Updated : Sep 24 2024 | 9:50 PM IST The University of Wollongong (UOW) will be one of the first Australian universities to start courses at GIFT City of Gujarat from November, it said on Tuesday. It will start post-graduate courses with intake of 50 students each in … Read more
US computing giant IBM has reportedly shut down its research and development (R&D) operations in China, joining a slew of global Big Tech firms in trimming their mainland businesses amid geopolitical headwinds. IBM is closing its China Development Lab and China Systems Lab, while laying off more than 1,000 employees in cities including Beijing, Shanghai … Read more
A white man has filed a lawsuit against IBM, alleging that he was terminated to accommodate the company’s diversity hiring initiatives. According to Randall Dill, he was a highly regarded employee at IBM, cultivating relationships with the Pentagon and other major clients. Much to his dismay, Dill said he was terminated to make room for … Read more
Leah Solivan was an IBM engineer, working on business collaboration tools like Lotus Notes, when she found her million-dollar startup idea: an online marketplace connecting customers with “taskers” who could run errands or do household chores for them at a price. The idea arose from Solivan running out of dog food one night and asking … Read more
The move aligns with the government’s ongoing efforts to transform the city into a technology hub. “Despite its small geographical size, Hong Kong is an international city that can attract talent and access global markets,” Albert Wong Hak-keung, CEO of Hong Kong Science and Technology Parks, said in a recent interview with the Post. “Additionally, … Read more
Jim Keller, an engineer who has worked at AMD, Apple, and Tesla and is now CEO of an AI chip startup taking on Nvidia, says that Nvidia is “becoming the IBM of the AI era.” On a Sunday podcast episode of DemystifySci, Keller brought up Nvidia’s AI chips and called attention to companies like Microsoft … Read more
Sixteen companies at the forefront of developing artificial intelligence pledged on Tuesday at a global meeting to develop the technology safely at a time when regulators are scrambling to keep up with rapid innovation and emerging risks. The companies included US leaders Google, Meta, Microsoft and OpenAI, as well as firms from China, South Korea … Read more
The Director General of the Nigeria Governors’ Forum, Asishana Okauru, has retired from the Forum after over 15 years in office, sources familiar with the development have told PREMIUM TIMES. The sources said Mr Okauru submitted his retirement notice to the Forum’s Chairman, Governor Abdulrahman Abdulrazaq of Kwara, this week. Our sources said the director-general’s … Read more
Japan approved up to ¥590 billion (US$3.9 billion) in subsidies to chip venture Rapidus, committing more money to its ambition to catch up in semiconductor manufacturing. The additional funding will help Rapidus buy chipmaking equipment and also develop advanced back-end chipmaking processes, Economy Minister Ken Saito said. The amount is on top of billions of … Read more
