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June 14, 2025

AMD Acquires Untether AI's AI Expertise Team

AMD has acquired Untether AI's team of AI hardware and software engineers, focusing on compiler and kernel development, as well as System-on-Chip (SoC) design. This move signals AMD's push into inference-specific technologies, a growing area in the industry due to declining GPU revenue from training-based applications. Justin Kinsey, president of SBT Industries, believes this acquisition proves that GPU vendors recognize the shift towards energy efficiency and inference performance over raw processing power. However, Nvidia still holds a lead in hardware efficiency and software ecosystem, with its Blackwell benchmark remaining the standard for AI workloads.

https://www.techradar.com/pro/amd-made-key-acquisitions-to-close-the-widening-gap-between-its-instinct-gpus-and-nvidias-blackwell-accelerators-but-will-it-be-enough

June 14, 2025

Matthew Carstensen Acquitted on Robocall Charges

A political consultant, identified as Matthew Carstensen, has been acquitted in New Hampshire of charges related to sending AI-generated robocalls mimicking former President Joe Biden to Democrats last year. The incident raised concerns about voter suppression and impersonation.

https://www.ocregister.com/2025/06/13/election-2024-ai-robocalls-acquittal/

June 14, 2025

AI-Powered Telemedicine Boosts Rural Healthcare Access

The new telemedicine platform allows healthcare providers to concentrate on high-priority tasks, such as patient care and administrative duties, by outsourcing non-essential functions to AI-powered systems. This enables them to maintain high standards of professionalism and compassion in every interaction with patients, particularly those from vulnerable populations like the elderly and rural communities, who often face barriers to accessing quality healthcare services.

https://nerdbot.com/2025/06/13/reimagining-patient-engagement-the-new-frontier-in-healthcare-customer-experience/

June 14, 2025

Google Enters Generative AI with New Search Mode

Google is expanding its online search capabilities with generative artificial intelligence, a move that may challenge its ad-based business model. CEO Sundar Pichai recently introduced a new AI mode in Google search, which provides answers to queries above traditional links and ads. This development comes as the company faces competition from OpenAI's ChatGPT, which has integrated search engine features into its chatbot, further intensifying the tech giant's push into generative AI.

https://www.victoriaadvocate.com/news/nation/google-turns-internet-queries-into-conversations/article_abbc36b7-4103-5b2c-83c9-b3fb55c439ac.html

June 13, 2025

Cisco Empowers Inclusive Digital Future with AI

Cisco is committed to creating a more connected and inclusive future through its AI-powered solutions, enhancing productivity and digital resilience for customers, partners, and communities.

https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/cisco--jp-morgan-to-host-innovation-tech-talk-302480509.html

June 13, 2025

Mattel Teams with OpenAI on AI-Powered Toys

Mattel, the toy giant behind Barbie and Hot Wheels, has partnered with OpenAI to integrate AI technology into its toys. The first product, powered by ChatGPT and other generative AI tools, is expected to debut later this year. Mattel's COO Brad Lightcap stated that the partnership will provide access to advanced AI capabilities for productivity, creativity, and company-wide transformation.

https://www.adweek.com/media/mattel-barbie-ai-toys-openai/

June 13, 2025

Meta's AI Research Division Seeks Human-Level Intelligence

Yann LeCun, co-founder of Meta's AI research division, emphasized his team's goal to develop human-level AI systems, potentially surpassing human intelligence. At France's VivaTech conference, he discussed a clearer vision for achieving this goal, which has been a decade-long objective. LeCun co-founded the division with Rob Fergus at New York University, and Fergus later returned to Meta after a 5-year absence to lead the research lab, replacing Joelle Pineau.

https://apnews.com/article/meta-ai-superintelligence-agi-scale-alexandr-wang-4b55aabf7ea018e38ffdccb66e37cf26

June 13, 2025

Micron's HBM3E Powers AMD Instinct MI350 GPU

Micron's HBM3E memory technology is being used in AMD's Instinct MI350 Series GPU platforms, which offer industry-leading bandwidth and lower power consumption. The platforms integrate 288GB of high-bandwidth memory capacity, enabling the efficient support of AI models with up to 520 billion parameters on a single GPU. This allows for peak theoretical performance of up to 161 PFLOPS at FP4 precision, making it suitable for large language model training, inference, and scientific simulation tasks.

https://www.manilatimes.net/2025/06/13/tmt-newswire/globenewswire/micron-hbm-designed-into-leading-amd-ai-platform/2132689

June 13, 2025

Oracle Shares Soar on AI-Driven Growth

Oracle Corp.'s shares reached a record high after projecting a 70% gain in cloud infrastructure sales for the fiscal year, driven by its focus on artificial intelligence work, according to Bloomberg News.

https://news.bloomberglaw.com/tech-and-telecom-law/oracle-soars-to-record-after-seeing-dramatically-higher-sales