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Duigenan on IBM, Truist expanding collaboration efforts: 'We are excited to join Truist in exploring transformative technologies that will benefit their customers'
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Truist Financial Corporation has joined the IBM Quantum Accelerator program and welcomed the technology company to the bank's Innovator in Residence Program.


Miller: 'We commend the European Union and United States’ efforts to finalize this crucial program'
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The decision by the European Union to put the EU-U.S. Data Privacy Framework (DPF) agreement into action on Monday, July 10, 2023 was hailed by the international trade group for technology called the International Technology Information (ITI) Council.




Suleyman: ‘Anyone can experience the power of a personal AI’
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Industry-accepted benchmarks and leading users agree the best AI performance is provided by the company’s H100 Tensor Core GPUs, including for the large language models (LLMs) underlying generative AI.


Huang: ‘Digitalization will enhance the industry’s efficiency, productivity and speed’
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NVIDIA founder and CEO Jensen Huang recently outlined how robotics simulation offers virtual training and programming that can leverage physics-based digital representations of environments, robots, machines, objects and other assets.


Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang: ‘New types of supercomputers are just coming online’
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During a keynote address Monday at the Berlin Summit for the Earth Virtualization Engines program, NVIDIA founder and CEO Jensen Huang told delegates that AI and faster computing will assist climate researchers in performing the miracles they need to accomplish to make advances in climate research.


Fauber: 'We are excited to partner with Microsoft to set the standard for how generative AI will pioneer new advancements'
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Moody's Corporation and Microsoft announced a new strategic alliance to provide financial services and international knowledge workers with cutting-edge data, analytics, research, collaboration and risk solutions.


Cope: Government officials 'must accept the First Amendment obligations that go with using their account for governmental purposes'
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The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) is calling on the U.S. Supreme Court to remind government officials who use social media they have obligations to observe the First Amendment when using their official social media accounts.


Bitko: 'ITI agrees with the policy goal of promoting software producers’ adherence to reasonable and risk-based secure software development practices'
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The Information Technology Industry Council (ITI) is calling for a standardized and transparent procedure for software developers to self-certify secure software development methods.


Microsoft's Borden: Partnership will combine 'world-class insights from Moody’s with the capabilities, trust and breadth of Microsoft Cloud'
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A collaboration between Microsoft and Moody's Corporation was announced June 29 to combine Moody's data and analytics with Microsoft AI to develop products and services for financial services and global knowledge workers.


NVIDIA’s Zhiding Yu: ‘NVIDIA’s winning solution features two important’ autonomous vehicle advancements
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An American multinational technology company that is a supplier of artificial intelligence hardware and software, who also designs system on chip units for the automotive market has won first place in a competition for autonomous driving development technology.


IBM's Mantas: Companies 'need to assess their company requirements' around privacy, security, accuracy with AI
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Jesus Mantas, global managing partner at IBM, warned against data privacy and security breaches with the rise of artificial intelligence (AI) technology, saying companies should be proactive in their data privacy measures.


ITIF calls investments to decarbonize heavy-duty trucks 'disproportionately low'
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Despite making up only 5% of the number of vehicles on the road, medium and heavy-duty trucks (MHDTs) are responsible for 30% of the carbon emissions in the transportation industry, and a new report from the Information Technology and Innovation Foundation (ITIF) said research spending is insufficient.


Huang: 'The creative process can be amplified in content generation'
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NVIDIA founder and CEO Jensen Huang said generative AI will supercharge creators across industries and content genres at the Cannes Lions Festival on the French Riviera.



Mantas: 'FYI and IBM aim to transform the creative collaboration process'
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IBM recently launched a new partnership with will.i.am and FYI to enable creatives to harness the transformational potential of safe and reliable generative AI.


Taylor-Kale: Department of Defense ‘continues to support industrial sectors of strategic importance to protect American national security’
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The Department of Defense, through the Office for the Assistant Secretary of Defense for Industrial Base Policy, has signed a $45.5 million contract with Arconic Corporation to augment missile and munitions production by escalating the manufacturing of HPA (High Purity Aluminum) at its Davenport, Iowa facility.


Levine: 'Proposed order makes it easier for parents to protect their children’s privacy on Xbox'
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The Federal Trade Commission recently ordered Microsoft to pay a $20 million fine for illegally collecting personal information from children without parental consent.


IBM to build its first European quantum data center to serve expanding ecosystem
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IBM to Build its First European Quantum Data Center to Serve Expanding Ecosystem