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Google Finalises Multi-Billion-Dollar Wiz to Amp Up AI Cloud Security
The Wiz acquisition is reportedly worth $32 billion and will enable Google Cloud to protect AI-driven workloads.
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Equinix Launches Distributed AI Hub to Simplify & Secure Enterprise AI Infrastructure
The platform is designed as a vendor-neutral ecosystem, allowing enterprises to build customised AI stacks without being locked into a single hyperscaler.
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Why Synopsys is Onboarding ‘Agentic Engineers’ in Semiconductor Design
Synopsys is embedding AI across its design software to accelerate chip development as semiconductors grow vastly more complex.
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Data Centres Are a ‘Necessary Evil’, Karnataka Reviewing Policy: Priyank Kharge
The Karnataka government is considering a new sustainable data centre policy due to heavy water consumption patterns.
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OpenAI Could Reportedly Integrate Sora AI Video Tool Into ChatGPT
OpenAI is reportedly planning to bring the capabilities of its Sora artificial intelligence (AI) model to ChatGPT. As per the report, the San Francisco-based AI giant wants to add video generation to its main chatbot app's arsenal. The move is interesting given that the company is yet to fully roll out the Sora app globally. On the other hand, if video generation were added to ChatGPT, it could play a role in increasing the platform's popularity, but also negatively impact the Sora app's adoption.
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Anthropic Launches Institute to Study Societal Risks of Powerful AI
The company has launched a new institute to study the societal risks of powerful artificial intelligence as rapid advances reshape economies
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NVIDIA to Invest $26 Bn in Open-Weight AI Models Over 5 Years
The plan comes as NVIDIA launched a 120-billion-parameter model that runs agent-based AI systems at scale.
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NTT DATA Launches NVIDIA-Powered Enterprise AI Factories for Production-Scale AI
The new AI factories integrate NVIDIA NeMo and NIM to help enterprises deploy secure, agentic AI at scale.
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Bosch SDS and NxtGen Partner to Launch Sovereign AI Cloud
The initiative aims to bring digital twin-driven manufacturing intelligence to the Indian industry.
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India’s Genrobotics Lands Singapore Water Agency Deal for Robotic Sewer Systems
“Our technology was engineered for the most complex environments, and Singapore’s validation confirms that our solutions meet the highest global standards for safety and efficiency.”
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AI ‘actor’ Tilly Norwood put out the worst song I’ve ever heard
When the production company Particle6 debuted itsAI-generated “actor” Tilly Norwoodlast fall, the move was not warmly welcomed by Hollywood. “Good Lord, we’re screwed,” Golden Globe winner Emily Bluntsaidin an interview with the industry publication Variety. “Come on, agencies, don’t do that. Please stop.” If only Particle6 followed Blunt’s advice. Instead, the company has put out a music video for its AI character, featuring a song called “Take the Lead.” This is not clickbait. Upon listening to it, I actually think it is the worst song I have ever heard. I was prepared for Norwood’s musical debut to sound something like “How Was I Supposed to Know?”, the AI-generated song attributed to the digital persona Xania Monet, which turned heads when it made it onto the Billboard R&B charts. Xania Monet’s AI-generated music isn’t my cup of tea, even if its lyrics are supposedly written by a real person — I personally prefer music that could exist without an AI music generator likeSuno. But Norwood’s song has unlocked a new level of AI cringe. Eighteen people contributed to the video for “Take the Lead,” including designers, prompters, and editors. Yet the song itself is about Tilly’s challenges as an AI-generated character who critics underestimate, because they believe she is not human. “They say it’s not real, that it’s fake,” Norwood snarls at the camera. “But I am still human, make no mistake.” That is, to put it gently, not true. Music does not have to be relatable to everyone, but perhaps it should be relatable to at least one person. What’s most impressive about Norwood’s song is that the AI character’s team managed to create a song about something that literally no human will ever experience, because no person can connect with the feeling of being disregarded for being an AI. The song, which sounds like a Sara Bareillis rip-off, opens with the lines, “When they talk about me, they don’t see/The human spark, the creativity.” The song builds as Norwood affirms to herself, “I’m not a puppet, I’m the star.” Then comes the chorus, in which Norwood appeals to her fellow AI actors: Actors, it’s time to take the leadCreate the future, plant the seedDon’t be left out, don’t fall behindBuild your own, and you’ll be freeWe can scale, we can growBe the creators we’ve always knownIt’s the next evolution, can’t you see?AI’s not the enemy, it’s the key In the video, Norwood struts down a hallway in a data center, which is perhaps the only part of the video grounded in any element of honesty. When the second chorus hits with a predictable key change, she instead walks across a stage, looking out into a stadium of cheering fake people who give her an undeserved moment of “triumph.” You could make the argument that Norwood is trying to appeal to actors at large and not just other AI characters. But the outro leaves no question that this is, in fact, a rallying cry from Tilly to her AI brethren: Take your power, take the stageThe next evolution is all the rageUnlock it all, don’t hesitateAI Actors, we create our fate We do not need this. We do not need music from an AI persona addressing other AI personas with a hopeful anthem about working together to prove judgmental humans wrong. Twenty years ago, the influential music publication Pitchfork gave Jet’s album “Shine On” a 0.0 out of 10. Instead of writing a review, they just embedded a YouTube video ofa monkey peeing into its own mouth. The Jet album isn’t abhorrent, but Pitchfork editor Scott Plagenhoefexplained in a 2024 interviewwhy the site’s writers had been so angry about it all those years ago. “Seeing mainstream rock music, which of course most of us had grown up with a fondness for, become so knuckle-dragging and Xeroxed was disappointing,” he said. These are the same complaints that artists have today about AI-generated works — these productions ring hollow and simply reproduce the work of artists past. “‘Tilly Norwood’ is not an actor; it’s a character generated by a computer program that was trained on the work of countless professional performers — without permission or compensation,” SAG-AFTRA, the union representing actors, wrote in astatementlast fall. “It has no life experience to draw from, no emotion and, from what we’ve seen, audiences aren’t interested in watching computer-generated content untethered from the human experience. It doesn’t solve any ‘problem’ — it creates the problem of using stolen performances to put actors out of work, jeopardizing performer livelihoods and devaluing human artistry. While Jet was taking inspiration from older rock groups to make its “knuckle-dragging and Xeroxed” music, Tilly Norwood is literally derived from AI models that could not exist without the training data that tech companies took from artists without their consent. I think Pitchfork jumped the gun. Twenty years later, they finally have a worthy subject.
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Meta Unveils Four Custom MTIA Chips to Power AI for Billions
The chips are built to handle a wide range of AI workloads, including recommendation systems, generative AI training and large-scale inference.
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