What could go wrong?

Movie studio 20th Century Fox is using AI to predict what films people will want to see.

News buried as GNOMEs triumph

Red Hat appears to have used the news of its takeover by IBM to bury the news that it was killing off KDE.

$34 billion deal

IBM is acquiring software maker Red Hat in a deal valued at $34 billion, the companies said Sunday.

Cutting edge AI at work

Researchers working for Big Blue have been working out a way of making Pac Man more ethical using AI.

Bringing in blockchain and AI

UK-based travel commerce platform Travelport  is expanding its IBM partnership to roll out blockchain and AI technology.

5G, big data and processing

Simon Seagers, ARM’s CEO talked about the 5^th wave of computing and that is obviously the one that is coming after the last big leap that brought us closer to mobile and cloud mix.

Going towards start-ups

Micron Technology has announced it will invest up to $100 million in startups working on artificial intelligence technologies for use in self-driving vehicles, factory automation and other growing fields.

Data center beat Nvidia Volta on latency and inference  

The Xilinx CEO has just introduced a new product category called the Alveo PCIe based hardware accelerator that will challenge machine learning data center compute accelerators. It has dramatically better latency compared to Nvidia or AMD's GPU based solution, it's claimed.

Swiss knife for heterogeneous AI, cloud, 5G

The wait is finally over, what Victor Peng the CEO of Xilinx announced as the Everest, will now be branded as the Versal. This is shaping up to look like the Swiss knife of heterogeneous computing, addressing some key markets including AI, cloud, network infrastructure, 5G, automotive, and much more.

More transparency

IBM is now offering a cloud-based service designed to detect bias in AI and bring transparency to how AI-powered systems make decisions.