Category: Technology

NATO has released a Quantum Technology roadmap, setting out how the Alliance intends to develop, adopt and safeguard a family of technologies that many defence planners believe will reshape sensing, navigation, computing and secure communications in the decades ahead. The publication builds on work NATO has been undertaking for several years. Quantum technologies have been…

Google is making a pitch to an industry that has spent the past several years bracing for impact: relax, the technology is here to help. The message, aimed at studios, streamers, agencies and the unions that represent the people who make movies and television, is a familiar one from Silicon Valley. New tools, the argument…

Meta has made another high-profile addition to its artificial intelligence ranks, this time with a clear commercial tilt: the company is staffing up around business-facing AI, the part of the stack that turns research breakthroughs into products advertisers and enterprises will actually pay for. For investors, the move reads less like a one-off personnel announcement…

Meta is moving to show investors a return on the enormous sums it has poured into artificial intelligence, with a new effort aimed squarely at business customers, according to a report from The Wall Street Journal. The push marks a notable shift in emphasis for a company whose fortunes have long rested on consumer attention.…

Microsoft has reaffirmed its long-term commitment to the Middle East, outlining an expanded push across three connected priorities: technology infrastructure, digital resilience and investment in people. The announcement, published on the company’s official blog, frames the region as a strategic focus area where demand for cloud and artificial intelligence services is accelerating alongside ambitious national…

Inside the A.I. Party House, Where Networking Has a Dark Side In certain corners of San Francisco, the line between a house party and a job interview has all but disappeared. Sprawling Victorians and converted warehouses have been rebranded as “hacker houses” and “founder houses,” where young engineers, researchers and would-be entrepreneurs live, work and…

The University of Kentucky has installed artificial intelligence-powered facial scanning technology at its residence halls, according to a report from Lexington television station WKYT. The move places the Lexington campus among a growing number of universities experimenting with biometric tools to control who can enter student housing. Rather than relying solely on swiping a student…

Three companies at the center of the artificial intelligence buildout — Emerald AI, Google and NVIDIA — have announced the formation of the AI Energy Management Alliance, a new industry group focused on making AI data centers more flexible consumers of electricity. The alliance, unveiled Wednesday, is aimed at advancing what its founders describe as…

Bill Gates has spent much of the past decade arguing that innovation is only as valuable as its reach. Now the Microsoft co-founder is sounding a sharper warning: the next wave of technology, he says, risks benefiting those who can afford it first — and everyone else much later, if at all. To counter that,…

Apple is weighing the use of Nvidia technology as part of a possible return to the server market, according to a report from The Information cited by Reuters on Wednesday. The report suggests the iPhone maker has at least explored what it would take to build and sell server hardware again — a business it…