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Generative AI gold rush drives IT spending — with payoff in question

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Interest in AI, building since last year, will push a 10% increase in data center system spending this year, driving worldwide IT spending to $5.06 If [vendors are] looking for a first-mover advantage, this is a one-year window in many software areas, two at the most,” he said. “If

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4 paths to sustainable AI

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Everything from geothermal data centers to more efficient graphic processing units (GPUs) can help. Salesforce’s AI Research team has also developed methods such as maximum parallelism, he adds, which split up compute-intensive tasks efficiently to reduce energy use and carbon emissions.

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Rackspace’s Brian Lillie on the importance of leadership principles

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These thoughtful and reflective experiences allowed me to develop a statement of purpose about the life that I’d like to live, namely, to live a full and authentic life by personally and continually striving, learning, and growing, and by helping others flourish,” he says. This was innovation at its best.”

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TechCrunch+ roundup: Plaid’s staffing story, RevOps for B2B sales, demo day’s demise

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7 cloud market trends and how they will impact IT

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The frenzy created by the public release of OpenAI’s ChatGPT has triggered an arms race among hyperscalers to differentiate themselves by developing their own large language models (LLMs), building platforms that enable enterprises to create generative AI applications, and integrating generative AI throughout their portfolios of service offerings.

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Daily Crunch: Citing ‘unscrupulous actors’ and market trends, Coinbase CEO lays off 950 workers 

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The German vaccine maker intends to use InstaDeep’s machine learning to “improve its drug discovery process, including developing personalised treatments tailored to a patient’s cancer.”. Qarnot creates green data centers by putting servers in central heating boilers, Romain reports.

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TechCrunch+ roundup: Big Data’s cloud backlash, CVC pitch tips, de-risking hardware startups

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Soon after, when I worked at a publicly traded company, our on-prem data center was resilient enough to operate through a moderate earthquake. You need to make sure that the data you’re tracking is coming from the right types of people.” 10 tips for de-risking hardware products Thinking about pulling the plug on your startup?

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