University of Florida Invests in Supercomputer Upgrade for AI, Research The University of Florida has announced plans to upgrade its HiPerGator supercomputer with new equipment from Nvidia. The $24 million investment will fuel the institution’s leadership in AI and research, …

Global Tech Execs Expect Advancements in AI to Increase Security Threats Forty-one percent of global tech executives in a recent NetApp survey said they believe advancements in AI will significantly increase security threats. The firm’s second annual Data Complexity Report …

Rubrik Upgrades Data Protection Platform for Speedier Threat Hunting Data security specialist Rubrik is upgrading its data protection platform to allow for quicker recoveries in the familiar backup & recovery process. The new Turbo Threat Hunting functionality more quickly scans …

Congressional Task Force Releases Recommendations for AI Governance By John K. Waters 01/07/25 The bipartisan House Task Force on Artificial Intelligence recently released its recommendations to bolster American leadership in AI. The task force, co-chaired by Reps. Jay …

Report Makes Business Case for Responsible AI A new report commissioned by Microsoft and published last month by research firm IDC notes that 91% of organizations use AI tech and expect more than a 24% improvement in customer experience, business …

Metaverse Org Declares the Technology Is Accelerating in Spite of Rise of AI A new report from the Metaverse Standards Forum (MSF) declares the technology initiative is alive and well, despite skyrocketing attention paid to artificial intelligence. “The term ‘metaverse’ …

UC Berkeley Announces Sky-T1-32B Open Source AI Model, Offering High Performance at a Fraction of the Cost By John K. Waters 01/15/25 UC Berkeley researchers have unveiled Sky-T1-32B, a reasoning-focused language model that delivers high performance at an …

Quality Matters Launches Advisory and Consulting Service A new service from Quality Matters, the nonprofit focused on quality assurance in online and innovative digital teaching and learning environments, is designed to help colleges and universities develop a sustainable online learning …

Snowflake Launches Program to Upskill 100,000 People in Data and AI Cloud data platform Snowflake is embarking on an effort to train and certify more than 100,000 users on its AI Data Cloud by 2027. The One Million Minds + …

Meta AI Releases Open Source Machine Learning Library to Tackle Dataset Management Challenges By John K. Waters 01/22/25 Meta AI has released LeanUniverse, an open source machine learning (ML) library designed to address the growing challenges of managing …