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.htmlMattel, 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/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-4b55aabf7ea018e38ffdccb66e37cf26Micron'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/2132689Oracle 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-salesAdeel serves as Global Ambassador for Responsible AI with the GCRAI, advocating for transparent and auditable AI systems that respect user privacy and accountability standards. He plans to host workshops across the Gulf region, contribute to policy discussions on AI regulation, and support regional enterprises in adopting intelligent, secure, and compliant cybersecurity strategies.
https://www.manilatimes.net/2025/06/13/tmt-newswire/globenewswire/cybersecurity-expert-adeel-shaikh-releases-updated-book-on-ai-driven-soc-transformation/2132871The UK labour market outlook suggests that many jobs will be augmented by AI rather than automated, according to an economist. Research indicates that businesses exposed to AI are experiencing faster revenue growth, but this doesn't necessarily mean the technology is directly responsible for these gains. Shawn K, a former software engineer who lost his job due to AI, now struggles financially and has resorted to driving for DoorDash, highlighting the potential economic impact of AI on knowledge workers.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-14775807/The-jobs-teenagers-train-beat-AI-future.htmlAMD has made significant strides in improving its software, including ROCm, which benefits AI enterprise startup Cohere, allowing for faster changes and new features. Cohere CEO Aidan Gomez credits AMD's advancements, saying the process of changing his company's software to run on AMD chips now takes only days instead of weeks. The partnership between AMD and OpenAI has also influenced the design of AMD's MI450 series of AI chips, with OpenAI's Sam Altman providing feedback on memory architecture and mathematical operations.
https://www.thestar.com.my/tech/tech-news/2025/06/13/amd-turns-to-ai-startups-to-inform-chip-software-designAMD aims to increase rack-scale energy efficiency by 20x by 2030, a significant improvement from its current predictions of a 95% reduction in electricity for typical AI model training. The company's Instinct MI400 Series GPUs are expected to deliver up to 10x more performance running inference on Mixture of Experts models. AMD's market cap is $192.14 billion, lower than Nvidia's, but the company remains committed to driving AI innovation with its ROCm open software stack and expanding partnerships.
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