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SoftBank Expands AI Portfolio with $6.5B Acquisition of Chip Startup Ampere
Masayoshi Son, chairman and chief executive officer of SoftBank Group. Image: SoftBank YouTube SoftBank has announced plans to acquire the chip startup Ampere for $6.5 billion in an all-cash deal that “broadens its AI infrastructure investments.” For the last eight years, Ampere has been designing high-performance processors tailored for cloud computing, AI workloads, and data centres. Ampere’s lead investors, private…
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Check Point expands customer advocacy program to drive ‘hands-on’ support
Cybersecurity provider Check Point has expanded its partner and customer advocacy management services to provide customers with direct access to advocacy experts. Partners and customers will now have a single point of contact that will act as a trusted advisor to help improve security operations, accelerate executive management, and optimize cybersecurity strategies, the firm revealed at its CPX 2025 event…
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Adobe Firefly expands with ‘commercially safe’ video generator – Computerworld
Adobe has released a video generator in public beta in its generative AI (genAI) tool, Adobe Firefly. The company calls the tool the first “commercially safe” video generator on the market. It has been trained on licensed content and public domain material, meaning it should not be able to generate material that could infringe someone else’s copyright. Firefly can generate…
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Fortnite Expands Its Monsterverse with Kaiju No. 8 Collaboration Skins; Trailer Revealed
Fortnite just revealed a new addition to the ongoing Monsterverse; this time, it is from an animanga series. In the latest trailer today, Epic Games shared the new Kaiju No. 8 Fortnite collaboration trailer. The trailer reveals more than just one skin. Keep reading to know more about what is coming with the Fortnite Kaiju No. 8 collab. Fortnite Kaiju…
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Microsoft expands testing of Windows 11 admin protection feature
Microsoft has expanded its Windows 11 administrator protection tests, allowing Insiders to enable the security feature from the Windows Security settings. First introduced in October in a preview build for Windows 11 Insiders in the Canary Channel, admin protection uses a hidden, just-in-time elevation mechanism and Windows Hello authentication prompts that only unlock admin rights when needed to block access…
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Google Workspace Plans See Price Hike as Gemini AI Expands to All Tiers
Google announced on Wednesday that Gemini AI will be available to all Google Workspace Business or Enterprise users, integrating directly into the productivity suite. While all Gemini features will be offered at no additional cost initially, Workspace plan prices will rise to account for the expanded offering. “By removing the need to pay for an add-on to access our latest…
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AWS expands Ohio investment by $10 billion in major AI, cloud push
AWS has announced plans to invest an additional $10 billion in Ohio in a bid to expand data center infrastructure and help power the rise of AI. The investment builds on previous announcements of funding in the state worth $7.8 billion last year, in addition to $6 billion in 2022, AWS said in a statement. By 2030, AWS said its…
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OpenAI expands multi-modal capabilities with updated text-to-video model – Computerworld
“The true power of GenAI will be in realizing its multi-model capabilities,” said Sharath Srinivasamurthy, associate vice president at IDC. “Since OpenAI was lagging behind its competitors in text to video, this move was needed to stay relevant and compete.” However, both Google and Meta outpaced OpenAI in making their models publicly reviewable, even though Sora was first introduced in…
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Microsoft expands Recall preview to Intel and AMD Copilot+ PCs
Microsoft is now testing its AI-powered Recall feature on AMD and Intel-powered Copilot+ PCs enrolled in the Windows 11 Insider program. The company started rolling out the first preview of Recall to Snapdragon Copilot+ PCs last month after two delays in June and October. First introduced in May, Recall is a Windows feature that captures screenshots of active windows every…
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Windows 11 24H2 upgrade expands to more computers
Microsoft expands Windows 11 24H2 availability to more compatible computers. The rollout expansion is through the Windows Update settings. Microsoft enters a new rollout phase by making Windows 11 24H2 (2024 Update) more broadly available to compatible computers. Although the latest version of the operating system has been available since October 1, 2024, it was limited to some devices. However,…
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