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Intel-backed AI helps protect endangered bears

2 days ago | techfinitive.com | Jo Best

A conservation project that uses open-source AI to protect an endangered species of brown bear is seeing promising results. The Abruzzo, Lazio and Molise National Park, situated in the Apennine mountains in the south of Italy, plays home to what remains of the Marsican brown bear population. The subspecies of brown bear is almost extinct, with only 50 individuals thought to be left in the wild.
What’s going on with Microsoft’s data centre delays?

1 week ago | techfinitive.com | Nicole Kobie

Last year, Microsoft said it would invest $80 billion in data centres to power AI, significantly more than previous years. It was even more than Alphabet’s $75 billion and Meta’s promised $65 billion. Over the past few months, reports have trickled out that Microsoft is easing off its AI investments, pausing or slowing data centre projects, including a $1 billion project in Ohio. What’s going on?
Anna Štrébl, CEO of Confirmo: "Blockchain, AI and IoT are converging in exciting ways"

1 week ago | techfinitive.com | Tim Danton

One thing is clear from our series of interviews with blockchain thought leaders: they’re willing to think different. That’s certainly true for Anna Štrébl, CEO of global payment platform Confirmo, who entered the world of crypto in 2021 shortly after a three-year stint working for the UK Government. “I was struck by [blockchain’s] potential to redefine trust in digital transactions,” she told us.
IBM snaps up Hakkoda for AI consultancy clout

1 week ago | techfinitive.com | Jo Best

IBM is continuing to add to its AI arsenal with the acquisition of consultancy Hakkoda. IBM said it had acquired Hakkoda to build out its “data transformation services portfolio”, gaining the company’s experience in “migrating, modernizing, and monetizing data estates”.
Joseph George, General Manager of IT Solutions Group at GoTo: "IT knowledge needs will go beyond basic AI use"

1 week ago | techfinitive.com | Tim Danton

How many of us can claim to have built a neural network? “Probably less than 1%” was Copilot’s unhelpful answer when we asked, but we suspect that Joseph George, General Manager of IT Solutions Group at GoTo, is closer to one in a million. “I went to graduate school eager to specialise in AI and ML [machine learning],” he told us.
HPE expands Aruba Networking Central deployment options

2 weeks ago | techfinitive.com | Aimee Chanthadavong

Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) has expanded the deployment options of its flagship HPE Aruba Networking Central to include new virtual private cloud (VPC) environment and an on-premise options. The on-premise deployment option has been designed to enable customers to operate HPE Aruba Networking Central while disconnected from the cloud.
Lea Petrášová, CEO at Vexl: "There are no truly promising non-financial applications of blockchain"

2 weeks ago | techfinitive.com | Tim Danton

It tells you much about Lea Petrášová, CEO and Co-Founder of the Vexl app, that she launched it from the border of Afghanistan and Pakistan. To quote Lea on the creation of the Vexl Foundation: “Vexl isn’t just an application, it’s the embodiment of our vision for financial autonomy.
QR Codes Future: A Glimpse into Tomorrow

2 weeks ago | techfinitive.com | Darien Graham-Smith

QR codes are now everywhere. Train stations, supermarkets, restaurant tables, apps. They’ve certainly come a long way since they were originally invented in the 1990s as a tool for industrial inventory control. Yet we’re still only beginning to explore what these compact, versatile codes can do. In the next five years, QR codes are set to become even more ubiquitous, and we’ll be using them in new ways to achieve more.
IBM launches z17 mainframe "engineered for the AI age"

2 weeks ago | techfinitive.com | Tim Danton

We’ve got AI in our phones, our laptops and our PCs. Now IBM is introducing them to its mainframes, with the all-new IBM z17. IBM claims this is the “first mainframe fully engineered for the AI age”. This means that organisations large enough to run their own mainframes can execute a huge range of AI tasks on their own hardware. And not just GenAI tasks, but security tools that use AI to make it easier to spot threats and management tools for IT teams.
Kennet Harpsøe, Lead Researcher at Logpoint: "Data protection is the main challenge for IT professionals"

2 weeks ago | techfinitive.com | Tim Danton

One of our favourite things about interviewing IT leaders is that they often see the world differently. That’s certainly true for Kennet Harpsøe, Lead Researcher at Logpoint, who makes two excellent points about GenAI that we hadn’t considered before. Or, more particularly, about Large Language Models (LLMs). “LLMs understand programming languages and one of the benefits of that is that they can de-obfuscate malicious code,” he explained.