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Kripa B February 9th, 2025 11:35 PM 0 COMMENTS

AMD and Aramco Sign MoU to Accelerate AI Adoption in Energy Sector

AMD has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Saudi Arabian integrated energy and chemical company Aramco to explore AI-driven digital transformation in the energy sector. The MoU pertains to a potential collaboration between the two companies regarding the evaluation and use of AMD's products and technology to accelerate the deployment of artificial intelligence (AI) for specific industrial workloads. Also Read: Aramco Achieves 2.4 Tbps Optical Network Transmission with Nokia... Read More

Kripa B February 9th, 2025 11:05 PM 0 COMMENTS

Microsoft and G42 Launch Responsible AI Foundation in Abu Dhabi

Microsoft and G42 have officially launched a Responsible AI Foundation, the first center of its kind in the Middle East, announced on the sidelines of the Artificial Intelligence (AI) Action Summit in Paris. Supported by Mohamed bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence (MBZUAI), the foundation aims to promote responsible AI standards and best practices in the Middle East and the Global South. Also Read: ADNOC and AIQ Launch Agentic AI... Read More

Kripa B February 9th, 2025 2:03 PM 0 COMMENTS

BigBear.ai Secures US DoD Contract for AI-Powered Media Analysis

AI-powered decision intelligence solutions company BigBear.ai has been awarded a contract by the Department of Defense (DoD) Chief Digital and Artificial Intelligence Office (CDAO) to advance its Virtual Anticipation Network (VANE) prototype. According to the company, this initiative will enhance the DoD's ability to analyse foreign news media and identify key geopolitical trends by leveraging custom AI models. Also Read: OpenAI and Anduril Partner to Develop AI Solutions for US... Read More

Kripa B February 9th, 2025 11:01 AM 0 COMMENTS

AI-Driven Medicine Could Offer Hope for Snakebite Treatment

A team of researchers at the University of Washington has used artificial intelligence (AI) to design synthetic proteins that neutralise lethal snake venom faster, more effectively, and at a lower cost than traditional anti-venom, according to Nvidia. Led by computational biologist Susana Vazquez Torres in Nobel laureate David Baker's lab, the team developed these proteins using deep learning models. Their study, published in Nature, demonstrates that AI-designed proteins successfully protected... Read More

Tanay Singh Thakur February 9th, 2025 7:00 AM 1 COMMENTS

Airtel Rs 489 or Rs 548 Plan, Which is Better

Bharti Airtel, India's second-largest telecom operator, recently introduced new voice and SMS-only vouchers. Along with that, Airtel also made changes to its select prepaid plans. The two prepaid plans of Airtel that we will focus on today are the Rs 489 and the Rs 548 plans. These are affordable validity-focused plans from Airtel. The Rs 489 plan is cheaper than the Rs 548 plan on a whole basis, but also... Read More

Kripa B February 8th, 2025 10:47 PM 0 COMMENTS

Meta Launches New Program to Improve AI Speech and Translation Models With UNESCO

Meta's Fundamental AI Research (FAIR) team has announced a new program aimed at enhancing and expanding machine translation and speech recognition, particularly for underserved languages. In collaboration with UNESCO, Meta is expanding its support for linguistic diversity through open-source AI models and research. Also Read: Meta Says Open-Source AI Is Transforming Healthcare Outcomes Meta's New Initiative for Linguistic Diversity To achieve the same, Meta announced on Friday the launch of... Read More

Kripa B February 8th, 2025 3:20 PM 0 COMMENTS

5G Non-Terrestrial Networks to Expand India’s Connectivity: Report

The adoption of 5G Non-Terrestrial Networks (NTN) alongside terrestrial 5G has the potential to transform the telecom industry by creating a seamless network. This integration is expected to significantly enhance space segment capacity, providing more users with access to high-speed data services, ET reported, citing experts. Also Read: Vodafone Claims World’s First Satellite Video Call Using Standard Mobile Phone Convergence of 5G and Satellite Technology Unlike traditional mobile towers that... Read More

Srikapardhi February 8th, 2025 12:02 PM 0 COMMENTS

Singtel Secures SGD 643 Million Green Loan for 58 MW Data Centre

Singtel's regional data centre arm, Nxera DCT, has secured a SGD 643 million, five-year green loan to finance the development of a new 58 MW data centre in Singapore, DC Tuas. DBS, OCBC, Standard Chartered, HSBC and UOB are financing the loan and have been appointed as green loan coordinators. The loan proceeds will go toward funding the development and capital expenditure of DC Tuas, which the operator claims will... Read More

Tanay Singh Thakur February 8th, 2025 10:12 AM 36 COMMENTS

Airtel More Focused on 5G Expansion, 4G Capacity Not a Priority Now

Bharti Airtel's Vice Chairman and Managing Director, Gopal Vittal, recently confirmed that the company is not looking to invest in expanding 4G capacity anymore. The investments will flow towards increasing 5G capacity and coverage. At the Q3 FY25 results, Vittal said that Airtel will deploy more 5G radios as more 5G devices come into its networks. Since not everyone in India has a 5G phone, the company is slowly increasing... Read More

Tanay Singh Thakur February 8th, 2025 6:55 AM 20 COMMENTS

BSNL Kerala Announces 5000 Indigenous 4G Sites Deployed

Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited (BSNL), a state-run Indian telecom operator, has announced that it has deployed 5000 indigenous 4G sites in Kerala. The company has so far installed more than 65,000 4G sites with indigenous technology PAN-India. BSNL's 4G technology is provided by Indian tech companies. Not only that, but BSNL;'s 4G tariffs are the lowest in the world. This brings BSNL closer to its goal of deploying 1 lakh... Read More

Kripa B February 7th, 2025 11:00 PM 0 COMMENTS

UK Launches AI Trial for Early Detection of Breast Cancer

The UK's NHS is launching the world-leading trial of artificial intelligence (AI) to detect breast cancer earlier, which could lead to faster diagnosis of the disease. Nearly 700,000 women across the country will take part in a trial to test how cutting-edge AI tools can be used to catch breast cancer cases earlier, the Department of Health and Social Care announced on February 4, 2025. Also Read: Google Cloud’s AI... Read More

Kripa B February 7th, 2025 9:59 PM 0 COMMENTS

NEC Unveils Solution to Modernise Mobile Network Infrastructure Construction

NEC Corporation has developed a solution that enables the modernisation of tasks, including planning, design and construction work, when telecommunications carriers install network infrastructure such as base stations. The company said the introduction of this solution makes it possible to reduce the time required to build mobile infrastructure, from RAN to core, by approximately 60 percent compared to conventional methods. Also Read: NEC Completes Construction of ADC Submarine Cable In... Read More